I have strong bearish sentiment on many eft's and would like to choose a strategy between shorting the stocks or buying puts. The issues with...
Ditto. The Risk Navigator is too crappy to be useful -- it is more like a teaser. The exposure calculation for far out options gives far-out...
It is bad that I had to do this but IB keeps the workings of portfolio margin 'proprietary'. I can't find anything useful in the documentation and...
Let's say that the strangle has a bearish bias that is I was after, betting on a decline, but not sure about the timing and afraid of the...
I sold a bunch of strangles and am concerned that the volatility may surge. I want to use VIX to hedge against a sudden vol change. I found the...
ETFs may distribute dividends and capital gains, which should lower the share prices. Because the option holder receives none of those, when that...
When my short call became ITM on expiry day, I thought I would buy to close the position. But the ask price price was 1% over the intrinsic value....
I figure IB has a list of high-risk stocks on which the margin is 50-100% of the underlying value, regardless of how far OTM the short call is.
They are crazy, well, dumb, in another way. As my PM margin soared in the day, I tried to close some positions. To my surprise, a $50 trade (10x5c...
Did you consider rolling back to RegT margin? At least it is predictable.
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