$2K would be the minimum you would need for a margin account. Bu then you'd have have enough $ to meet the requirement for what you want to sell.
yahoo has historical option prices? I knew they had historical stock prices, where are the historical option prices located?
you got pinned. if it's close like that and you don't want to worry about it you should always close out. luckily it was a covered call and not...
really? and you base that statement on?
LOL, sadly I'm not making that up. Lots of people do it
and technically when if you day trade a spread each leg is it's own day trade. so your typical debit/credit spread would be 2 day trades, regular...
yeah, basically how it works is if I carried the XYZ March 15 calls long overnight I can sell them to close and buy them back later that same day...
sorry, but that is not the case. it is not a round trip if you close out a long position and re-establish it. only if you close it again. when...
thats correct. otherwise every time someone traded a spread it would be considered a day trade, right? I think I recall reading once where a...
it's an overnight process. I don't believe firms send position reports to the OCC intraday
you can still get assigned on an OTM position, safest bet is to just close it out
yes, that is correct. if you open it and close it the same day then it's a day trade. you can close out a position you held overnight and then...
Yeah, but they have to at least look at the account to see what the positions are. Otherwise they'd be buying back everyone's ITM covered calls...
To be able to answer this I'd need to know the number of calls & puts sold, the current market price of the options, and the price of the...
I'm sure they can see how the position is paired, they would have to in order to determine the amount of cash he can spend vs how much they have...
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