Spreads brokers?

NexusFi · 2019-04-28T13:18:03-04:00

Didn't find anything in search, so I have to start another threat....SORRY! I reviewed ALL my trades, and guess what? The currency, meat, and grain spreads cumulatively were ahead 10's of thousands!! And the simple one position naked positions showed the huge overwhelming losses. And anything dealing with the softs were a disaster. Right now I use Gain/ DT Daniels/Reliance which charge about $8/rt. with insignificant data charges. Is there a better deal out there? After +4 years of trying …

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Updated April 28, 2019

Spreads brokers?

April 28th, 2019, 01:18 PM

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myrrdin

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@SMCJB, thank you for the very insightful post. I use TWS on Interactive Brokers. How do I find which exchange listed spreads are available? Are there separate symbols for these?

There are no specific symbols.

For intra-commodity spreads there is the spread trades.

For some (not many) inter-commodity spreads (eg. RB-HO) you can click the commodity and will find the spreads among the options.

I hope this helps.

Best regards, Myrrdin