Just in case anyone else has had this problem. I woke up checked my account and all was fine. a few minutes later received an email telling me I...
for a +1 point move your contract value changes by -0.388 x 50 given the current underlying future price and the option's implied volatility and...
And another: https://fundseeder.com/trading_account/3322.
How about this for a fundseeder equity curve: https://fundseeder.com/trading_account/2310. :vomit:
I wasn't talking about offshore. I meant someone with whatever right to live somewhere can also potentially save tax by incorporating in the same...
the question is complicated by your own aims: do you want to make AND spend a lot of money or do you want to make the money and keep as much of it...
No-one knows what will happen in future so any conjectures about how to adjust are not really meaningful. Maybe a better way to approach it is to...
Funnily enough the optionworkshop latest release includes polynomial fitting (see...
If you look at the wikipedia article on this you can see that you can re-arrange the formula to get from the value of a put to that of a call with...
@truetype says it more succinctly than me, but this is what I was writing... 1) just a standard polynomial of the order of your preference...
Fair point. You're just more in a grey area at the very least and subject to the whims of tax enforcement. If you get away with it fine, I just...
I think that if you trade professionally via spread-betting HMRC will not allow you to do so tax-free if it's your main source of income. Assuming...
The BBC case was an IR35 issue (specific tax regulations to deal with cases where you are paid as if you are an independent contractor with all...
Most brokers and in general most option trading software will try to fit a curve through the implied vol points at each maturity and use the...
Index futures are instruments whose payoff should be equal to that of a trader who buys all the stocks in the index at their index weights with...
By off-exchange I mean the over the counter market (OTCs). I think the big banks still dominate this arena in terms of market making but I don't...
It's probably mainly because, like fx spot, fx option trading largely takes place away from exchanges. After that, for the majors at least, CME fx...
This was insanely lucky!
why wouldn't you exit on the biggest spike of all time in the VIX? "yeah I held with VIX at 50 because I wanted 80 in the next few weeks"? At...
That would give a strongly positive skew which would increase your FS score. If you look at the definition of sample kurtosis on the wikipedia...
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