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As long as riskarb agrees with me to some extent I could care less for the rest. :)

Each commodity is plotted against another commodity which is actually USD. When people go long they buy commodity and they sell USD. When they are short they buy USD and they get rid of commodity. Markets are powerstruggle between commodity and cash. Reverse the charts upside down and the calls...

Riskarb, just try to think outside the box. Both risks are either bounded or unbounded. I believe they are both bounded. And I've explained already why. And I think you are intelligent enough to understand it too.

Exactly. If you look at SPX index as SPX/USD pair then puts for SPX become calls for USD and vice versa.

I tend to disagree. The risks should be simmetric. It means only one thing - the risk on naked calls is also limited.

How a casino is better than the free financial markets?

15 pips across the board.

Mixture of both = balance.

Yes, I use IKON for options and spot. The minimum lot size for EUR/USD is 10k, for other pairs and metals it's 100k. No realtime p/l for spot. But it's realtime for options. They are 2 separate platforms for options and spot.

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You can hedge your long position with put options.

Taking an equal position in the opposite direction is effectively the same as closing the original position. There's no advantage or disadvantage in this method over the closing the intial position outright except it would require an additional capital.

What do you guyes think about xpresstrade? Did anyone have any personal exprience with them?

The dilemma of the first poster is how easy it would be to link Delphi ( or java whatever) with C++ libraries. If his program is written in C++ this is done simply by the linker.

SethArb, I have question for you - are the spreads quoted separately ( as separate symbol) by a broker or one has actually to buy one symbol & sell another one? How are they charted? Which broker is the best to trade the spreads?

Can you show a small example? How do you deal with mangled names? Or you think it's easy to do for someone who makes up his mind between learning C++ or Delphi? First off one has to be fluent in both, agreed?

You'll save yourself from a lot of troubles if you stick with API native language. Especially if you are ok with a simple GU interface for your programs.

<b>change to percent first....then fill in the box with your value for the percent...not the other way around.... save current layout.... </b> Wow, that's cool.

How do you do that? I tried to change the default order size from units to % and it didn't work for me. It still keeps it as units.

Ah, that's why its design is so well thought out.