You are right that a 50 point wide spread doesnât help that much since your protection is far away, but your alternatives are to do a spread...
I have no idea where you are getting your information. As I already stated I get filled in the middle of the bid/ask on option spreads on the CME...
Knowledge earned is far more important than information given. You are asking a lot of basic options questions that you should spend a long time...
Your question makes no sense. M oct 27 calls closed .88-.91 yesterday and they are .74-.77 now with the stock down a little. You canât ever...
Then I still donât know what you are asking. If you are hitting the bid or taking the offer of the exchangeâs disseminated quotes then you...
Each exchange has the ability to show the market makers, and others, spreads that are working, like the complex order book. So if anyone wants to...
Hlpsg, As I said, my knowledge is from the old days so I canât tell you exactly what happens today. However, I can tell you when I did it that...
Hlpsg, Yes there was spread orders, all kinds back then. The order would come to the floor via a broker who would walk into the pit and ask for...
I can speak to the good old days. The bid ask spread was set by the exchange and the MMs could make it narrower if we wanted. When a new product...
This is a joke right? HoCo is back pulling our leg? Or is this just one of the most moronically stupid posts in awhile?
At least we made the news. This story has a link on the Bloomberg home page. Feel free to add some comments....
Optionsxpress: they charge unbelievably high commissions for options on futures, they are so high that you canât use them no matter what....
I canât believe someone hasnât tried to start a replacement brokerage company because of the void left now that TOS no longer exists. There...
Yep, just got kicked out and canât get back in, the phone says the wait is over 20 minutes to talk to someone. The funniest thing is how the...
Correct. The only problem here is the ludicrously incompetent moderators who failed for 2 days and 6 pages and have still not realized that not...
As to the proposal in the article from the op at least they are talking about a higher tax on one million per year and not the 250k that they kept...
How about a website that doesnât look like a high school kid who got a C in computer class put it together over the weekend?
It depends a lot on personal preference and the particular machine. A new machine with a good processor and tons of ram probably wonât be...
In the gutter after selling naked options and not wanting to cover his risk âeverydayâ and leaving his broker with a debit?
Are you referring to the NDX (Nasdaq 100)? If so there were many bigger moves exp to exp. This past one was number 11, April 2000 was number 6.
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