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i posted the ratios before: long fit = long 15 zf, short 10 zn long nob = long 10 zn, short 6 zb long bob = long 6 zb, short 4 ub you can combine spreads if you want too: long fob = long 15 zf, short 6 zb long newb = long 10 zn, short 4 ub (my own name for this trade :p ) shorting...

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for me it is always considered spread margin because that is all i trade, you have to talk to your brokerage about that side of the risk management- but unless you basically only trade spreads i'm not sure how helpful they'll be with your margin req's.

xtrader pro by TT- it's by far the best imo, but not worth the cost unless you trade a lot (somewhere around 1700$/month) but i would assume your platform is spreadable- i mean if you can trade both products you can spread them....? just buy one and sell the other manually- i probably...

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americans will just enjoy the fruits of others' labor through our entitlements. i mean we were born in america which clearly shows we deserve free food, utilities, cars, color tvs, cell phones and a bit of spending money on the side- o yeah and healthcare and a retirement after all our long...

http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/files/ICS-Ratios.pdf

for ZF ZN ZB and UB i use the same as the ICS spreads do: 15:10:6:4 and i only trade intraday i never hold positions overnight

you clearly don't belong on ET- stop talking common sense :cool:

average lifetime earnings of a person less taxes at this point is somewhere around 1 mil i'd go to guess (40k / 40 yr - 33% tax and i round down a bit) and that is probably overestimating. so the value of a life declines rapidly as one ages in my opinion- which begs the question why do we waste...

santelli speaks from a pragmatic approach- which i enjoy. liesman is a puppet for the government purchased bull market we are in, and refuses to even entertain the idea that reality will eventually hit us.

it's mathematically impossible for taxes to be too high for the segment of the population that you refer. they are part of the half of america that doesn't pay a single dollar in fed taxes

if you are trading with higher amounts than you can really take as a loss- that is your problem to begin with. once you know you are a profitable trader and your system works a day is a day be it red or green. i liken red days to having aces cracked by kings- if you let that affect you day in...

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+1 this really is the truth- i had one teacher (my french teacher of all people) in high school who told everyone that college wasn't for everyone and the debt they'd take on might not be worth it. at the time i thought she was crazy, but now in hindsight i'm thankful that she might have...

what would a dec 2011 100-75 put spread cost to go long?

geeze i thought it was all bush's fault

in using ES you have to be willing to sacrifice the dividends though don't you? if i were trying to buy and hold, would you then say that in general until you have milllions of dollars to divvy up between the stocks, the management fee associated with owning SPY is a smaller hit than the...

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also those suffering poverty in the US these days generally have a color tv, cell phone, car and are overweight. maybe that is why people think we are the richest country ever, because our impoverished live the lives of aristocrats in other countries.