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Thanks. Right on BRK--that's their expertise--and I'll check out Wave 59 (never heard of it). Yes, the basket is interesting. Only paper trades so far, but it lets you create a basket of stocks based on any number of US or foreign indices, using different approaches like top/bottom by weight or cap, use statistical representation of index, create orders using $ figure or # shares, use as an arb for the index, etc. Or you can put your $100k into a fund and someone takes two minutes to plug it in to an IB basket, saying something like our investment profile for this fund is the top 20% of stocks by capitalization of the Dow Real Estate Index because we feel that real estate offers great potential return over the next 3-5 years and the largest 20% offer the safest return. That'll be 1.25% of your investment on an annual basis, plus 20% of your gain. Slight exaggeration...maybe, but you get my point. If it's possible to do yourself, why not? In fact, that's not a bad idea, anyone interested?
Thanks, Lornz. I'm new to portfolio trading--zero knowledge. However, I have several managed funds in my portfolio that I follow closely and compare to benchmarks. They are buy and hold strategies with occasional rebalancing--so, yes, they have all been hammered recently. Now that I see technically how I can create the orders, I want to learn how to add value. My knowledge has plenty of gaps, so as basic as it comes is what I'm looking for. Then I'll know what I don't know.
Thanks for the welcome and detailed reply. IB lets you create "combinations" of whatever you want. It's 2 PL for every GC and the spread has exploded in the last week with the world collapsing and gold as the only store of value. Just watching from the sidelines now, but damn!
HO/RB used to be a very nice seasonal spread to trade on the floor. Trade the Jans or Febs approaching the winter and Mays or Junes approaching the summer. I'm watching them all to see how they now move. Though I've never traded them, I've seen CL/HO/RB and CL/NG trade very nicely during hurricane season, the Aug and Sep contracts. The downside is that all these spreads can have dramatic movements; GC/PL moved $50 overnight recently, so not good to hold.
I've been thinking about indices too because they seem more stable than commodities. I've been considering ES/YM because I'm somewhat familiar with their movements already and I can trade them in the overnight during my Dubai day. Which do you trade and how do you trade them? Off charts? Do you leg in or put in a simultaneous trade ala IB combo? Been thinking to "buy the bid" and "sell the market" in MC. When the buy is filled, sell the market. That's more or less how it was done on the floor--except you had your friend next to you in the pit with an order. Alas, those days are gone.
A lot of work still to do, but it's interesting and fun.
There are much nicer places to visit than Dubai. They did a remarkable job of building a city on a desert. The malls here put anything in the US to shame. Even the crappy ones have marble floors and top end stores, but on my last flight out, I remember saying to myself "if this is the last time I see Dubai, that's okay." Looking forward getting back to the NYC area. I'm here because my wife is here. Yerevan in Armenia is a wonderful small city (disclaimer, I met my wife there last year)
Like the Spock reference. Got my wife and stepson hooked on Voyager and plan to start TOS (not thinkorswim) when that's finished. Thanks Netflix.
you are oversimplifying what a real hedgefund does.. and keep in mind that unless it is a tiny fund, they wont take you for $100K.. and also, 2/20 is the rule pretty much... anyhow, now with all the pendin reg, lots of funds are just returning money, so I am sure a lot of people will have to do what you are looking to do...
I have not done seasonals... I will take a look at them..
I do index because those I am allowed to do without having to get approval, and also, because of liquidity... I do what works for me... Index vs. Interest Rates, CME Index vs Eurex Index... biggest issue with Eurex/Liffe is the currency risk, I dont know what the final conversion rate will be.. so hedging it is a pain.. as to how I leg in, less liquid leg first..and the closest I can get to required value on the other leg... right now, with CQGIC Spreader which I am testing, I just click on the spread based on my Qformula and it goes get what it needs to working both orders at the same time.. so having a dedicated tool to enter both orders is nice.
IB will also let you enter a spread order, but I've only tested it on paper. The real fill may be different. As for the commodities, I would leg in the same way. Limit order on the less-liquid first leg and market (or close to) on the second.