I think he meant "Iron Corndog". :cool:
Wasn't me. That was taken directly off the CBOE page. Most brokers probably use the same .01 ITM threshhold as the CBOE. The comment about...
Have you checked the correlation between RUT and NDX? Today NDX is up .36 while RUT is down 1.70. I haven't checked into it, and it's only one...
I must have missed it. It sounded like you thought the owner of an option had to take some action in order to exercise. ETA: You need to take...
What is "automatic exercise" of an option? The Options Clearing Corporation has provisions for the automatic exercise of certain in-the-money...
Looks like a typo or C&P error if you check the prices.
Howard you should really have a better understanding of what you own, for your own protection. As mentioned, you don't want to be unexpectedly...
What paper trading system are you using? Maybe it's a "feature" (bug) of their paper trading software. Did you use a market order? For real...
Don't they trade on Thursday 4/21?
I don't know what the OP bought, but the yahoo page says they expire on 4/20. Edit: Probably Yahoo is messed up.
Actually the May IV probably won't crash much. The APR4 vols are around 60 today (were in the mid-50s yesterday before S&P downgraded the US), I...
As I recall most of it went to increased "defense" spending. He basically drove the Soviet Union into bankruptcy trying to keep up with Star Wars...
Since you already own the stock you could collar it, buy puts to protect the downside and sell calls to pay for the puts. You would be giving up...
Did you ask them for their results? I did a few years ago and it wasn't very impressive.
Yes, the Fed and especially Greenscam effectively gutted G-S even before Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Why can't we find any adults to run the country these...
In my view a trading journal should be more like 1. Post a trade you open in real time, or even before, maybe with some reasoning behind it....
I'll just link to the article at Market Ticker: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=184237
Falcon, what are you using? You probably mentioned it many pages back . . . Anyone know if Thinkorswim paperMoney is anything like real trading?
What is your risk management strategy? I am seriously thinking about doing this. So far my risk management consists of trailing stops (cut your...
I've never checked into E-minis before. I just had a position filled on TOS paperMoney and went in to enter a trailstop and that choice is not...
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