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I bought the OXY 4.1 Feb01'21 at 75 yesterday

That page on IB says, "Should the market start to move lower, the bid will remain aggressive until filled instead of remaining pegged to the bid. " I don't want that. I want it to stay pegged to the bid even when the bid decreases. Is there another order type like REL except it stays pegged...

Would that really be a viable strategy? If it were profitable to push it up and hit it, it would be profitable for a third person to hit both orders before you can cancel the one that pushed it up.

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=613 How do I make an hidden order that just always outbids the NBB by one cent, no matter which way it moves?

Compared to paying half a cent per share on $100 shares (0.005%) it's 50x

IB charges 0.25% for trading bonds, which is prohibitively expensive when you just wanna flip them for a few percent more. What other brokers offer lower fees on bonds and reasonable margin requirements / margin rates?

Do bonds ever become hard to borrow? How do you know what you're paying to borrow the bonds? Do you even have to borrow bonds to short them, or is naked shorting allowed?

Nobody lets you just borrow their stock for free to short it.

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That's pure voodoo. There's no mechanism. You had lots of degrees of freedom to select a month and a start date to find whatever spurious correlation you want to find.

Inflation has been negative the last three months. Fed shouldn't touch interest rates. They should let the market go sideways for a while or correct itself instead of deliberately instigating a crash.

So my net worth is 6 times what I would be looking to spend on a house, but banks still want to charge me 3.5% for a 15 year fixed. WTF? It's basically zero risk. Can't I get a full recourse mortgage, collateralized by my IB account that's worth a lot more than the house, for a much lower...

Why aren't there any brokers that will let you write checks from the same account where you trade stocks? I hate checking accounts because they earn like 15 basis points at best.

WTF is going on here. Brent is up 10% while ATW is down 20%.

So just require a locate...

Prices are often discounted enough to cover the risks and then some.

Banning short tender seems to me to be as dumb as banning other forms of short selling. I just missed out on a huge ATW bond arbitrage opportunity because I couldn't short tender them.

There's plenty of yield in the world, but risk-free yield is vanishing because there is an overabundance of passive pussies parking all their money in return-free risk assets like 10 and 30 year government bonds.

If 30 year bond yields were ever allowed to return to non-bubble levels, they'd lose half their value and all the banks would go bankrupt. So Yellen will print her way out of that.

IB is pretty good, but it doesn't let you trade stocks in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, etc etc. Is there a broker with wider coverage for global macro? Also, reasonable forex carry rates are a plus. IB doesn't have that.