There's no parade to rain on to my knowledge. I was not asking a question earlier, but stating a rhetorical. A short call is selling (writing) a...
I believe I missed something. Plain vanilla calls are long, plain vanilla puts are short in essence, right? I think it's going up so call.
Saxo is terrible. Why on Earth would anyone do CFDs? Or at least I don't like them. p.s. directional vanilla option [IMG]
Well they did alright today. GS especially. Entered 1417C222.5 5.70 underlying @222 after it dropped from 224.00 [IMG] Banking - Correction...
222.50 call is now worth 7.40. Let's see what happens tomorrow. I bet there will be a correction. Have you exited?
That seems pretty liquid to me. [IMG] GBP/USD [IMG]
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@vanzandt, I will definitely be doing a GS play, just not that one. Banking sector down -1.37% based upon a avg vol weighted measurement. Avg vol...
Oil sector is down today by 3.8% when weighted by avg. vol. of all equities in the industry.
Are banking stocks dropping on pre-announcement jitters conerning the Fed? The decision is considered to be a foregone conclusion. Additionally,...
Yes, that's correct. Unfortunately, pro fees are much much higher. Just wait until you see the volume license fees. I didn't register with them...
Agreed. If I am bullish, why not agree upon a floor knock-out to save on the premium. I actually didn't think that anybody outside of a huge firm...
Yes, because you know absolutely everybody, don't you?
Yes, yes. How proud of yourself you are. I trade vanilla options directionally. It is your choice not to. The amount of traders who place...
Yes, that's correct. P.S. Since you say that you want to watch the entire market, I imagine you will probably be wanting to see more than 100...
More than a bit déclassé. And why do you care? Just worry about yourself. :D
The spreads I am looking at are always wider the deeper into the money you go. That being said, I usually place a limit order near the midpoint...
Does anybody here trade any form of exotic options? I wanted to trade some knock-out options like double-barrier. When I trade an option, I...
What kind of insane leverage are you using?
So then what I was asking is if you are using a trailing stop or the 144.xx-3.5 as you mentioned. If you are using the trailing 3.5 stop and you...
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