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After you backtested your strategy successfully with spot historical data I don't believe there is a need to backtest it with options. The transition to options from spot is straightforward: 1. Sell puts if you get bullish signal. 2. Sell calls if you get bearish signal. 3. Sell straddles...

I am just curious why you can't use historical FX spot data for backtesting? Does your strategy work with spot FX?

Of course in futures it's a lot more rigid than in OTC FX. What I am saying is that I believe that they price it off the futures contracts price not spot price ( in FX they are called forward contracts ). Basically they are doing that to account for the overnight interest.

I am pretty sure that they are actually options on futures contracts (with very wide bid/ask spread ). I suggest that you ask your broker ( in case of IG group they are actually market makers ).

OTC FX options are tied up in price to FX futures not spot.

You won't be able to take advantage of the decay by day trading them.

The dynamics is different because there is no need to pay premium for the insurance. Those asset classes are themselves insurance.

So if he buys far out of the money options he would be consistently making money. I wonder if he actually tried it?

We are talking about stock options, right? Not bonds, gold etc.

Why not after 2012?

What minimum hardware would you people recommend for IB TWS? The goal is to have it running without any disconnects.

Bear. Waiting for a pullback and then I might change my mind.

I guess the long-term investment is a lot of hard work for the purported 20% annual return.

This is not index. This is etn ( symbol VXX ) and it should be available for trading with all this brokers.

But don't they have the feature to randomize your random sequence to get a new sequence every time you run it?

Exactly, stocks should be taxed as futures under 60/40 rule.

Google would be a good entry point to learn stuff online.

What do you mean by "if you have a trade robot on one side"? If one has a trade robot then he has already a program that sends trades to IB, hasn't he?

Why does one need TWSLink to trade an IB account if TWS is already running?

Shortie, your short put position is huge for a beginner. Make sure you have enough margin.