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Blackguard, Exempt funds are VERY RESTRICTED in terms of what they can say or comment on without risking violation of their advertisement prohibition. Even what is said is supposed to be restricted to accredited investors. It is certainly not worth risking his livelihood (or anyone elses in...

Actually, I believe Aaron is a CPO. There is no formal accepted and agreed upon definition for the term "hedge fund". The term is rather ubiquitously utilized to describe all organized (read, pooled and registered or claiming exempt status) funds aside from mutual funds. The difference...

Not trying to slam anyone? "the stock he was pumping here last year is now trading at 42 cents" ? glad you are not slamming anyone, I bet that would be really ugly. After seeing the way Aaron was treated earlier in the year for engaging the general membership here, I don't blame Harris for...

tnteo is right.... You've got nothing to complain about here. You have apparently not even done sufficient research to determine where the error occurred, if there even was an error - much less on IBs part. These are heavy accusations in a very public forum. I too have used IB for...

I'm not sure the YM will get you SPAN (and I doubt most daytraders know about SPAN, as you mentioned) but it's definitely worth pursuing. I would suggest an arb type play with where you're going. Take the two ETFs, indexes, whatever and find some divergence that will likely disappear. One...

original post in another thread..... bungrider Elite Member 10-01-03 10:17 PM fellow ET gents and ladies, below are two links from cftc's web site with the approved foreign contracts for US citizens to trade with no bullshit from the govt...

nutsneal... How am I not getting a very very close price by watching the ES? Given the spreads anyway...a close enough price to enter a limit order between them? I just don't think "getting a visual on the pits" or a squawk box or other device and monitoring them is a prudent way to spend...

So I should hire someone to intercept hand signals? If I do, I'll make them wear one of those multicolored jackets too...and yell a lot...walk around the office yelling at everyone...yelling about shorting winter red wheat and going long the bund. With all due respect Chitown, that ain't gonna...

So if I want to place limit orders for SPs in the pits, could i use the comparable ES contracts (globex) to get an idea of where to price the order? I'm talking about options on futures. Thanks

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I can tell you (almost) anything you want to know about ES options. The reason you didn't see prices at 5:42 was because they are so illiquid. There may have been a few out there, but not much. Try checking during market hours. Even during the day, they are not very liquid and the spreads...

I trade the SPs as well and have noticed the wide gaps. The only reason the spreads are as wide as they are, is because they can get away with it. I put out limit orders and step in front of them all the time. If more people did this, they would either have to tighten their spreads, or biz...

All the papers I've seen have failed to prove any correlation whatsoever. Part of the problem is the lack of definitive guidelines on what constitutes certain "patterns". What is the mathematical definition of "head and shoulders" and how could one use that definition to find examples of it...

This Jay guy is a joke. If you are "trying to enlighten people" as you suggest, you should direct your posts to complete newbies. Did you honestly think that all of these veteran IB traders were suddenly going to start thanking you for sharing this incredible revelation you just had? That...

Pretty much only broad based indices have futures options. Most narrow based do not even have futures to my knowledge. The large SP contract (250) trades pit only during day hours and Globex at night. The mini's (50) trade electronic 23.5 hours a day during the week. Volume on the mini's...

The price gets adjusted and your contracts do as well. 3 for 2 results in you receiving 7.5 contracts instead of 5. Although I think you may have sold calls instead of puts? given the math and prices in your post???

Just my two cents... I think managing expectations is the key. You mention a 20% drawdown as a key level, but I don't think you can really put a number on it. Some CTAs with high volatility may see several double digit down months per year and still have a big up year. As long as your...

Anyone know a good broker who trades the big SP (pit traded) contracts - both futures and futures options. I would like to have a good interface and SPAN margin, along with good customer service. Thanks In Advance

It depends on a number of factors, including order type, your margin available etc... IB constantly reevaluates your standing margin available. If you have a single order that is close to putting you over initial margin and the market moves against you, that order will be cancelled...

The original post was not specifically about a stop order, at least it didn't say that. I can't tell you how many times I've been happy to get filled after hours in a thin market. Either you want the (limit) order to be out there or not. If I have a buy order out at .30 below the closing...