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Thanks guys... tried number of times with ETFs and mini futures, but my daily bets on VIX itself ended up being almost unprofitable even if I correctly predicted VIX. Simply because futures and ETFs are not as volatile (or shell I say responsive) as VIX... price action is kind of smoothed in...

Okay. We can't trade vix directly (spot) but is it possible to use one of the spread betting firms to place a bet? I presume it's possible but I never tried spread betting. Anyone here who did something similar? Ps. Vix closed at 17.78 today I was wondering if someone with spread betting...

If you have small pot of money (say 20k) and you don't care if you loose it all. You decided that you will maintain maximum possible leverage (let's say ES mini futures) all the time. The strategy is simple... maintain maximum possible leverage all the time.. if you make profit by more...

Yeah... Long... Big time

http://www.cfe.cboe.com/products/settlementvalues_VIX.aspx

Yeah...today is settlement day but futures ceased trading last night. Is closing price going to be used for settlement or todays? Sorry if this is obvious to you guys...

I have Jun vix futures... which are not trading since last night.. I was hoping that this morning, my unrealized PnL will automatically become realized but that didn't happen... I can still see VIX Jun futures in my portfolio... can't sell manually and automatic settlement didn't happen last...

Hi, Is there a calendar of settlement dates for VIX mini futures? I don't want to calculate the date myself... it's so painful/time consuming or even ERROR prone Thanks " FINAL SETTLEMENT DATE: Thirty days prior to the expiration of the nearby SPX options with at least 8 days left...

I intend to use http://etf.stock-encyclopedia.com/SHY.html for short term rates and http://etf.stock-encyclopedia.com/TLT.html for long term rates

I'm new to interest rate trading. What I want to do is to bet on short term interest rate increase and on long terms interest rate decerase. I spoke to a guy who is more expirienced and he said thT it's very important to duration weight both sides of may trade? What does that mean and how to do...

Still undecded. I cant open my commercial software because of various reasons. The options are: a) hire one developer to work on it b) buy someone elses code open it up and develop with comunity c) buy code + hire anyone willing to offer his code? Price will depend on maturity and...

all agreed! Unfortunately I can't open up my codebase due to various issues... long story...

Yeah... Backtesting/data recording/playback/optimization/GUI can easily be between 50% of the code base... I want to get rid of that and focus on what's important speed and robustness

Well said... but... I need 1. Fast order book + other data structures 2. Ability to monitor/trade many instruments on tick by tick resolution 3. Limit orders (can be complicated implementation... given intrinsic asynchronous nature of the problem) 4. Risk management layer The suite of...

While ago I tried both... They are nice, but inherently GUI applications. System trader was more for TA traders and book trader is looking at book data ONLY... In my opinion both are over complex and too much effort went into GUI, optimisations and back-testing... That makes code to be bigger...

For number of years I was financing development of IB based trading platform. Various programmers contributed from all over the world... and it worked fine.... BUT... If you ask me if I would do that again, the answer is NO for various reasons but main one being... limited user/tester base and...

Very good. One more question... Do they offer fix api on demo account?

I heard they now support IB. Any experience?

Anyone knows for a link to IB gateway demo.... I want to try their FIX protocol... without loosing the money wait a minute.... do they offer IB Gateway in demo environment?

very good.... how does it compare with tradelink? anyone here using marketcetera to hft? pros/cons