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Atticus, You did not take time to read me, I wrote" I am not talking of arb nor collar" that's may be not crystal clear english as english is not my mother tong also you are too experienced to beleive you may have missed or not know something Anyway I gave up posting in this forum long...

Atticus, I regret to say that despite your high level of posting and your high level of option knowledge you give me the impression to jump rapidly to conclusions saying there is no free lunch and taking for idiot people trying to find a way to collect swap interest at a low risk (dont take...

can we trade Fx Option with IG ? Tks

Acronym, From where do you get that swiss banks are at higher risk than US forex brokers ???!!!, Swiss banks are the rolls royce of banking, US forex are unregulated so where should we expect to be scam ? may be a scam pretend to be located in switzerland or in the USA, that's an other...

Hi, Most spot forex traders trying to trade the news are embarrased with large spreads or manipulated quotes just before and during the news. Can someone write about his experience of trading news using futures instead of spot forex (including but not limited to US index andlarge or mini...

Hi, Most spot forex traders trying to trade the news are embarrased with large spreads or manipulated quotes just before and during the news. Can someone write about his experience of trading news using futures instead of spot forex (including but not limited to US index andlarge or mini...

Does pair trading adjust the ratio between the pair during trading?

The original idea comes from a simple forex trading strategy being long 1 GBP/JPY and short about 1.8 CHF/JPY, that hedge is not good but allow the trader to make money if he catches a positive swing and in addition collect the differential of interest each day. Off course it is better to open...

Your broker will unfortunately not let you short in a interest free account, it cost him money (he has topay the interest for you)and he is not going going to give you that freelunch for very long, even if you are muslim (the reason why interest free accounts exist).

there are brokers that offer both forexand futures,but the problem with selling the future (instead of spot in an interest free account) is that in the future has already built in its premium the differential if interest up to expiration date, so no money to be made.

I wish you good luck in this treasure search, I am sure all your energy is focused on it. Denis

Hi Michael, Long time read you on elitetrader, your PM is off. I still beleive Cash & Carry (Standard) is a good thing, may be with less currencies pairs and with weekly or even daily adjustment of pairs weight to maintain the portfolio neutral in $. This way it should bring steady...

I've never personally put on a contango spread or taken delivery of anything. Does any futures broker allow such arrangements and can it be done? ----------------- Without putting any effort into it, I just found a contango spread which accomplishes this: BUY Aug '06 Gold at 616.0 with...

bvam1 Was just trying to say that the net debit can be zero if you built the synthetic long using option slightly OTM (or slightly ITM, not sure right now). Can it still be consider as a synthetic long, was the question?

How can the following be done: BUY Aug '06 Gold at 616.0 with intention to take delivery. SELL Oct '06 Gold at 622.6 with intention to deliver What happen between end of Aug and end of Oct '06 For the return I got it (622.6/616.0) and also found commodities that offer much more than...

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Circle, thanks, an interesting post. So mispricing can be played for the duration of the mispricing which is probably of a short duration, but if you take a naked position you take a risk if the index decide to move in wrong direction in such case the correction of the mispricing will not be...

Thanks for that precise answer bvam1, I noticed that too (calls are more expensive than puts) and tried on a saxobank simulated account (where we can adjust the strike price of the option with lot of precision) to create a slightly out of the money synthetic long spot gold using a call and a...

Does futures broker charge interest on margin? I read recently on an other thread they dont. (No need to tell me to return to my books, I know it may look like a stupid question) For the margin on stocks or ETF, yeah broker will charge me interest, my mistake I should have though of that...

"As of today, it is a single digit return" perfectly right but buying index ETF on margin I can get double of that single digit return and reach 10%, no?