A market maker is not going to price options strictly on BSM. Here's an example, if you were highly sophisticated (ie you have a team who can...
Saltynuts? Me? I don't know really. Saltynuts is one of the most prolific thread starters the last couple months, however I've noticed that as of...
I was wondering if anyone else is having an issue accessing account management at IB. It took quite a while before giving me this screen saying...
Robinhood is the only one on that list that makes sense due to the nature of the limited research tools available through Robinhood directly.
And Scottrade is now owned by TDA as well. I wonder if you were to sum up TDA, Scottrade, and TOS numbers if they would have beat IB.
I had this problem with TWS on windows. I increased the memory allocation: Edit -> Global Configuration -> Configuration -> General -> Memory...
Even if you don't subscribe to data, they still have a minimum $10/mo in commissions. So if you make a couple trades and your commissions total...
I don't think an invasion is likely. Do you happen to know if their people need liberating? Asking for a friend...
This was Cramer's call on 3/22/2018: Here was his call approximately a year ago Of course he had many other calls in between. I'm not saying...
With regards to item 2, buying the OTM put as a hedge was intended to be combined with the synthetic long stock position (where synthetic long =...
1: options are standardized. If it wasn't always 100 shares that would get complicated very quickly. It does happen though. For example, when...
OCA is controlled by IB itself and as such there is no guarantee that the cancellation will happen before the exchange executes the other orders,...
This statement makes me think that you may not understand the position you've opened. Do you mean that you don't think FB will drop below $170?...
So buy low, sell high? Sounds like a great strategy!
VIX options aren't cheap, but the bigger problem with your idea is the fact that they're european style, which makes timing very difficult. In...
In many cases, the price of medallions was manipulated by government through supply controls and as such was higher than what the market would...
Trading floors is an OTC product that only professionals who specialize in that kind of thing can do. For retailers, you have to enter a multi-leg...
To where do you wish to post/share your trades?
I know you were specifically asking for people who had problems, but maybe to help to reassure you, I held positions overnight in 8 different...
There's threads started here regularly where people complain about IB and ask for alternatives. What it almost always comes down to is that unless...
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