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Correct.

Not if you lose money scalping or incur a lot of commissions or exchange fees.

Most CTAs look for notional commitments of $25K, $50k, $100K, $250K, $500K or $1M+.

That is really not enough information to determine future risk. However, a 30% return after all fees with low DD would be highly unusual at scale and should be very easy to raise AUM. If that is what you have returned in your account, may I ask what percentage of Span margin do you use during...

I'll be 55 in MAY!

I'm old and married..still. I became a member of the AMEX at 23 years old and started my own business at 24, just after I got married. Had my daughter at 27 years old. Making money was never my priority, but a necessity. I loved trading and working for myself.

I could never do that. I don't get much sleep, never had. But, I always wanted to have a beginning and end to my work day. I traded US options markets. Got to work around 7:30/8am est to get set up and ready for the day. Then my day ended around 4:15 pm est, home for 6 pm dinner. I was also...

I have a client that lives in the midwest, yet seems to start trading around 5 am est. You get the european order flow and movement. He trades options on many futures.

It's not necessary for me to enter the event to meet people. I don't feel the need to go to the panels and discussions.

You don't have to use TWS with IB. I prefer Silexx Obsidian for both options and stock trading. We offer these platforms with other prime brokers. Obsidian is certified with IB if you want to stay with them. Email me if you want more information about our services...

My name is Robert Morse and I'm with Victor Securities. We are Introducing Brokers and provide a variety of solutions for small and medium-sized Hedge Funds, CTAs, Trading Groups and Active Traders. I won't be attending the CTA event, but our offices are not far away. If you are in NYC this...

Not yet......

If you would like, send me an email directly explaining what you trade, a basic description of your strategy, how you expected to connect to the markets and any other information that might help me, help you. Then I'll give you a call to follow up. I will be able to guide you or point you in the...

I'm not following your question. If your position has a material delta, you have directional risk.

You can take out directional risk by hedging with stock or creating a ratio. By doing this it will make it harder to make money in the short run. Most scalpers with options make money from stock movement or option exchange rebates. It possible to play movement in changing of implied vol too, but...

Correct. It is best to choose higher priced stocks, that move around and have customer volume.That way you don't have to trade to make pennies.

The 1st agreement seems weird. The IB agreement sounds like it is just saying you are responsible for losses beyond the account. You can set up an account with an entity to protect your assets outside the entity. I would not sign the 1st one.

His broker will be able to follow the order and give him a direct response. We don't have enough information to provide an informed response. If you don't trust your broker to respond with an honest answer, you should find another broker.

You should send a message to IB with the order information for the most accurate reason. We would only be guessing.

Can anyone recommend a program/platform that a non-programmer can use to automate simple equity strategies for execution though the Sterling Trader Pro API?