Recent Content by stevenpaul

  1. lowest margin requirements

    I was just reading an extensive thread about Tasty Trade and also notice there is a whole forum about IB, so I assume there's no censorship of...
    Post by: stevenpaul, Apr 24, 2024 at 4:32 AM in forum: Stocks

  2. lowest margin requirements

    Can you recommend a broker with generous margin requirements for ETPs such as the tickers SVIX and SVXY (which often require 100% on long...
    Thread by: stevenpaul, Apr 23, 2024 at 3:29 PM, 4 replies, in forum: Stocks

  3. CBOE's SHORTVOL and LONGVOL

    The CBOE lists the values, but once again only 15 minutes delayed. An interesting article by Vance Harwood has me intrigued about these indeces...
    Post by: stevenpaul, Mar 25, 2024 in forum: Index Futures

  4. CBOE's SHORTVOL and LONGVOL

    Does anyone know who to view the live prices of these indeces? Delayed data are readily enough available but I can't seem to track the live...
    Thread by: stevenpaul, Mar 25, 2024, 2 replies, in forum: Index Futures

  5. Do bond yield increases trigger stock market pullbacks?

    Commentators are always attributing the recent pullbacks in equities to spikes in fixed income yields. I have to say, I find this correlation hard...
    Thread by: stevenpaul, Oct 3, 2023, 7 replies, in forum: Stocks

  6. Are there any brokerages that allow me to trade Tbills on margin?

    IB gives you 100:1 leverage on fixed income securities less of 6 month or less. But what's the point? The cost of leverage is greater than the yield.
    Post by: stevenpaul, Jun 14, 2023 in forum: Fixed Income

  7. A strategy to limit the cost of time value

    Thank you. I’m just wondering though, doesn’t the put vertical have capped payoff, whereas this so-called zebra formation has an unlimited payoff....
    Post by: stevenpaul, Sep 28, 2021 in forum: Options

  8. A strategy to limit the cost of time value

    [ATTACH] Not quite the position I assembled yesterday, but today's trade was quite a departure from yesterday's! I noticed that if the short leg...
    Post by: stevenpaul, Sep 28, 2021 in forum: Options

  9. A strategy to limit the cost of time value

    I agree it is silly to distinguish between synthetically equivalent positions. Although in this case, the dissected position you mention does seem...
    Post by: stevenpaul, Sep 28, 2021 in forum: Options

  10. A strategy to limit the cost of time value

    I have never tried this. It reminds me of a backspread, except that the short option has lower delta than the 2 long options. I just skimmed the...
    Post by: stevenpaul, Sep 27, 2021 in forum: Options

  11. Spreading Vix and VXZ

    I set up the trade with the NBBO as listed on Interactive brokers at the time of the original post. 5.12 was the exact midpoint between the bid...
    Post by: stevenpaul, Sep 10, 2021 in forum: Options

  12. Spreading Vix and VXZ

    Straddles can be expensive. They can also be inexpensive and a good store of value. It all just depends on the volatility regime of the moment. I...
    Post by: stevenpaul, Sep 9, 2021 in forum: Options