SPX on Friday June 24th 1268.45 SPX on Friday July 1st 1339.67 There were several large customers selling out of the money put and call...
RMORSE gave an excellent summary. Just to add a bit, Each brokerage house will have a different policy of where to send a spread based on the...
I have been trading the binaries on the SPX (BSZ) and the VIX (BVZ) on the CBOE for awhile. I think they offer some great opportunities,...
Today's opening print for the expiring June futures and options was based on the opening print of the July SPX 500 options. The series that the...
Looks like we will have to wait until late July now....
Or another easy way to look at it is your long option will automatically be "sold" for you and your short option will be "bought" for you at the...
I have never gotten any money from being long stock. If you do I think your brokerage firm is unique.
The problem with this is the 140 put would still contain the "premium" for the short stock. If you did this play you would be synthetically long...
This shows the edge you have by selling a put instead of simply buying the stock. Doing the entire reversal (selling a put and buying the same...
Looks like much more. Between 50 and 100%
Stock is very hard to borrow, So there is a huge premium in the conversions. Easy money for the brokers who are holding this stock. They can...
I believe the OP was referring to the Weekly options on the future, which expired Friday.
The July VIX options are priced off the July VIX futures. There is a pure arb here as both will expire at the same price. The expiration print...
Newwurldmn is absolutely correct. Remember that you can trade stocks after hours as well and have until 4:30 central to exercise. So you may...
Not all options are traded in pennies, many are not including apparently DBA. You may see a last price in a penny increment as some stocks/etfs...
They way it is usually done is you would sell a deep in the money call spread. You would then exercise your long calls and have long stock. If...
If you are going to trade these spreads, make sure you enter them as a spread. If the order goes directly into the CBOE Complex order book (COB)...
That's .50 a contract (each way) If you trade 300 contracts a day that is $150 a day or $36,000 a year. Not an insignificant amount.
I think the PM settlement is better as well. You don't have the morning mark risk. The question is what the liquidity will be like compared the...
Not exactly what we have been waiting for. These are SPX PM settled options. Slightly different from the pit traded SPX options currently traded...
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