Traders' Roundtable

Yes, you can normally offset a pit-traded contract with the corresponding e-traded one. (although you can't offset full-size S&Ps with e-minis).

I almost agree. However, your argument does not take into account transaction costs. In your example, Jack may have positive expectancy on commodity X that induces him to keep the position open. Joe on the other hand will have to pay commission and slippage to open the position, and that will reduce...

You might want to look into Windows Script Technology. It provides a way to plug in MS VB (or any other script engine with the right COM interfaces, such as JavaScript) into any application. There is also some support to hook in debuggers. This is the same interface MS use for most of its apps to ge...