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a real disaster always comes out of the blue, except, perhaps, drought reports for grain futures

you must have submitted a market order which is a suicide in option trading. Since the topic was about softs :) I'm trading Ags, Meats, Metals, Financials and Oil complex too :)

Calculating only buying power and initial margin req is not enough. What really matters is your "staying power" if the market moves against you. Depending on your objective and your exiting strategy, it's a must that you should calculate your bp if the price falls, say 20%. If you don't do...

I was trading ALL softs options such as sugar, cotton, coffee, cocoa and orange juice on TWS IB for over a year without any problem. The liquidity mainly depends on the month and price strike. I choose options with over 500 open interest and <b>mainly focus on the last traded price</b>...

I had a quick look at it, seems to provide only equity options data. No commodities.

Even if you trade less leverage, even safe leverage, you can't be sure that under certain market conditions with some volatility spike your position wouldn't be autoliquidated when you least expect it.

If so, stay away from TOS, IB and PFG Best ;) Could anybody provide a list of clearing firms since 2000 which were previously at http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/find-a-broker/broker-directory-na.html but blew up later?

TOS just offers a few options on futures. Here's an email from the tos support on that: "Thank you for the email. We currently only support the /ES and /NQ options as they make up most of the electronic volume. We will indeed be offering more futures options in the next couple of months and...

to sum it up: Only PFG best turned to be more or less suitable. As for support, I would give it a good mark. Pretty fast and responsive. But, as for the PFG pro trader platform, it's not suitable for trading options on futures. The drawbacks are: There's no Implied volatility for options...

Velocity Futures sent me a reply today: "At this time we do not allow clients to sell naked options. Generally we are a futures only shop with very few exceptions."

I've been successfully trading short naked stock options with Thinkorswim for several years and now looking for opportunity to sell short OTM futures options. I've run thru the half of the list of futures brokers at...