The announce date comes from: https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/STRM/earnings/get_next_earning_date It's often easy to find these URLs by opening...
The OCC's website is usually updated between 9 and 10PM ET, sometimes a bit later on Fridays. I think the deadline for submitting exercise...
What I meant is that you would buy CHF and then go long EUR/short CHF futures to be net flat CHF. If you do it with USD like you mentioned,...
If it's only a few 100k, you could spread it out between other negative yielding currencies like CHF, JPY, and DKK, keeping each within the 0%...
The stock was YRIV. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-29/china-firm-s-plunge-is-said-to-cost-interactive-brokers-millions
I don't know of any. In fact, I don't think I was ever able to find any mention of it besides the tax code itself. It's probably the most...
I don't know if it's ever enforced, but it seems this would be considered a conversion transaction and should be reported as ordinary income.
This doesn't apply to the complex order books, right?
In early 2018, I was told by IB support that they start liquidating at 13:30 ET the day of expiration. This was for post-expiry excess related to...
The issue with STARS is that depending on the symbol they either aren't actively quoted, are at a wider spread than the outright SSF, or aren't...
Thanks! Some good points there. I was in and out on the conversions and ended up going for the odd lot. As you mentioned losing margin on the...
Yeah, I think so. Regarding the phrase "this only reflects naked options margin, where no relief is provided on covered/spread positions": I...
Sounds like they treat every option as if it were naked and sum up the margin requirements. That would make sense for my portfolio where I have a...
I agree if you have fully paid for shares and you write a covered call you should still get paid when the stock is loaned out. I think the issue...
@Robert Morse, do you know if the rules permit rehypothecation only in the case of actual margin balances or also when you have levered complex...
Yes. From here, "a Pil in the form of a credit is made when a long stock position in an account has been loaned out on its ex-dividend date." I...
My NAV is usually ~3x my margin requirement with leverage of 10-20x, and I sell SPX box spreads when necessary to keep my cash balance (excluding...
When you have a margin loan, your shares are kept by the broker as collateral and can be lent out by them without paying you. This is known as...
You can get it for free from the OCC: https://www.theocc.com/webapps/delo-download?prodType=EU&downloadFields=US&format=txt The list of available...
As far as I know, there is no commercial software that supports straddles. I once spoke with Robert Green, who confirmed you have to make those...
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