No I didn't follow on the hedge...already had on some long straddles in single names with strikes that were roughly equivalent to 1140 in ES, so...
Gotcha. I coattailed you on this one...traded the call natural, 15.85 entry last week and unwound the 1 x 2 at 20.00 this morning (hard to say if...
With the 1200C no bid, do you just unwind the 1 x 2 and keep the 1200 in your back pocket...or do you submit it as a fly because it increases the...
Same here...had a couple other quirky things happen recently as well after using them for over a year without problems. Going to have a look at...
Interesting. I don't know enough to argue this one way or the other but my buddy seemed to think this was a non-issue. Will have to bust his chops.
I'd second what brocklanders said. Take this for what it's worth of course, but one of my good college buddies does a lot of infrastructure work...
Okay, gotcha. I need to crawl before I can walk anyway...if Java ever becomes my problem, I can survey the options at that time...doesn't sound...
Thanks, this is helpful. While looking around at various datafeed/broker API offerings, I did notice that just about everyone had Java/C++...but...
Thanks for the reply (and the dose of reality...ha). I do want to keep the possibility open though that at some point I may want to screw around...
Would appreciate it
I should preface this whole post by saying that I have little idea what I'm talking about: I've been using VBA for a long time and have had...
ha, holy sht i think i may have early onset dementia. scary
Not familiar with the settlement procedures, but couldn't he just exercise his 1.00 call in order to deliver shares if assigned? That way he...
Do you recommend rebalancing deltas on the single names and/or index throughout the life of the trade? Also, if implied corr comes in to a level...
Thanks for the heads up...how far back was this happening?
To the extent you're continuing to feel generous, any chance you'd be willing to go through an example of how you'd identify and play an earnings...
Like the API idea, wouldn't have much use for it in TWS only...also would be nice to be able to pay up for as many symbols as desired.
Thanks everyone for the input. I had originally considered some no cost 1x2s in SPY puts but at the time was thinking about a static insurance...
Appreciate you bringing your omniscience to the thread. Close-to-open the market dropped ~10% after 9/11. What's your market on where we open if...
I'd like to address the business risk of some unprecendented event causing a broad market gap down of 30-50% while I happen to be sizably (for me)...
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