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Too early to judge Mayer, indeed. But judging from the past performance of Yahoo's board, I wouldn't be optimistic. First, the board obviously don't know what to do or where to go, let alone choosing the right person to lead. Second, I bet the board must have the mentality of "because...

Anybody from SF Bay Area/SV who would like to hook up and find synergy?

Found ZH posted an radio interview with the......legendary(?).....Turd Ferguson, about Gold/Silver and of course, Da End Game: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/turd-ferguson-inexorable-march-higher-precious-metals I listened to the piece over my coffee break and I started thinking, if someone...

Does anybody know if IB would route option orders to CBOE's opening rotation or keep them until open? Obviously IB does not provide market data for the opening session(before opening at 8:30 Central Time). But I'm just wondering if orders placed before that time is routed or kept til open...

I actually thought of that. Do you know if IB would route orders to the open auction or keep them until open? (I know the obvious thing is to ask IB, but still, in case someone already has the answer...)

Hi, Can somebody let me know which brokerage allows for getting quotes and participate in CBOE's opening auction for SPX options?

I decided to use PPLT instead of PTM as the leg for long platinum. sold 83 of PTM @ 20.95 (realized = 26) bot 10 of PPLT @ 177.38

I doubt if I should feel pessimistic with that chart. First, it shows that for most of the time, platinum is way higher than gold price. The fact that it deeps below gold during the early 80's is probably because of the reduction in industrial use(notoriously in catalytic converters) during...

One significant thing to note, however, is that there's no option for the physical ETN's. So hedging becomes challenging. Are you saying that there's no need to keep paper-to-paper(i.e PTM vs. GLD) or physical-to-physical (PPLT vs. PHYS) pairings? Well, I can't think of the pro's and con's at...

I'm toying with such idea to trade the collapse of gold price with respect to platinum. From this picture it seems historically gold price cannot exceed platinum for long: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/11362126@N04/6022119135/" title="pl_gc by kalasend, on Flickr"><img...

I am interested in VXX and VXZ pair trade, as described here And I am exploring to do the similar with futures, which of course comes with higher leverage.

I use eSignal and there's 15 mins delayed for DCE books.

How about try using VIX future price as underlying rather than VIX index value? FWIW, VIX futures are less volatile than VIX itself and reflects more on market's projection of what VIX will be come expiration day.

Zerohedge just posted the following: Guest Post: Gold Surging - Buy Mining Stocks? Not So Fast, Says Frank Barbera http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-gold-surging-buy-mining-stocks-not-so-fast-says-frank-barbera

It's the latest, soonest-to-expire future contract. It is the closest you can get to spot gold price, if you choose to trade gold futures.

Would you trade the reversal? Below is a chart for platinum price - gold price. As seen, 0 seems to be multi year bottom. In fairness, why would anybody trade the same amount of platinum for gold? <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/11362126@N04/6022119135/" title="pl_gc by kalasend...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/11362126@N04/6022608734/" title="gdx_gld_gc by kalasend, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6022608734_1bfcfa5a03_b.jpg" width="1024" height="444" alt="gdx_gld_gc"></a> Thought you would like this picture. Orange line is GDX (gold...

Hi, Does anybody here trade VIX futures regularly? If you do, I have a few questions for you: - do you use them as hedges (against ES, or VIX options)? - do you short far month contracts at calm days(ie. gain from the steep contango)?

There's no event outbreaks yet, how can you call it excessive fear? Shorting vol when there's only concerns are very risky. Concerns don't go away easily without facts settled. So shorting vol now means you're betting against the event. How informed are you regarding the event? Shorting vol...

Hi all, i'm new to this forum. Until recently I've been working at a market maker in derivatives. I've just settled in SF and am currently trading from home. I'm interested in joining one of these prop trading firms in the city/area. However, coming from an environment where automated...