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Cautious guy here, usually just trading ES, NQ. But something caught my eye on Gold, and I know I can't be analyzing this correctly. Using IB, I see I can buy the GC futures, Feb 27th expiration, and basically do an options arbitrage with tomorrow's (and I assume other days') expiring options...

I know I can get it in a couple pull down or click menus, but I searched and searched and could not find a way to add the column vertically in my TWS portfolio page or in any new pages I create. Is it possible?

This spread looks like it is approaching a shortable high. What's the best way to play it? Gold / Plat futures? (Vol in the latter isn't that impressive.) Any ETFS? Spread itself traded anywhere?

Just sent TradeStation a few questions. Probably hear back in a couple days, lol.

Trade Station for the 1300 intraday ES, since you asked. Actually 1168 intraday maintenance.

So lets say I have 5K in my account. At the market open I buy ES, simultaneously sell an ATM 0DTE call. I'm using like 1,300 of margin. The call goes and stays ITM until it is assigned and takes the futures away. Will my margin have changed to like 12,000 between 4 P.M. and assignment, thus...

Let's say I have an ES contract and an short 0DTE ATM call that goes ITM. Will my margin change before assignment? Is it broker dependent? If so, who offers intraday through assignment?

Wrong, my friend.

While I am here, anyone get their cash yet from this very nice odd lot tender? I also wonder why there is no special sits forum on here, which could save some subscription costs.

At IB if I am long ABC at 100, write a call at 100 and buy a put at 95, my (portfolio) margin is, like 10 percent of the stock. At one or two other brokers I checked the margin is like 30% or 50%, perhaps because they don't offer PM. Are there other brokers out there (with low commissions) that...

Yes, but when I punch in the Kelly numbers what do I put in for average loss or average number/percentage of losers? Zero?

If you don't have any risk, (except for, perhaps, slippage or execution risk -- fat finger mishaps), how do you position size conversions and reversals?

If I was a broker and was hurting my clients like this with an integration, I would at least kick back some commission or toss some free stock their way. You know the saying, Money talks and .... walks.

Schwab is now on day four, and I'm not wasting my time with them anymore. (And I have half a mil there! Imagine what they do to small fry.)

Had a rep at Merrill who did not know the difference between portfolio margin and Reg-T. IB is a thread jungle online and impossible to reach by phone. Schwab has disabled one of my accounts for three days now because of a switch to TOS, promises to have it up every day by phone and then never...

Any reason to use one over the other or even another when scanning by strategy?

It was .6609 on the 23d and .06544 on the 24th. Ok, I gained 1.3 on the trade and lost 0.5 on the reconversion. That still doesn't add up. But even if it does somehow, how do I stop reconversion and just let it sit in the converted currency, AUD in this case. I just can't believe I actually lost...

Ok, I'm using IB, looking over my trades for the years, and scratching my head over the accounting for a small May trade: I bought AUD/NZD for 1.05809 on May 25 for 25K US, which translated to 26,450.49 (with a two buck commission) and sold the next day for 1.07122 or 26,780.50 for a profit of...

Talking futures options here

How so? I’ve made 1500 bucks on the 400 or so shrink in gamma today.