I have never used LightSpeed, but, in general, yes, that can happen. The market can move before you press "send", there can be hidden orders...
Why not just sell a put?
There are exchange traded products for Vix contracts a few months from expiring: VXZ (positive volatility) and ZIV (inverse volatility). If...
I apologize in advance if this message is a bit too basic for people who already trade options. You could buy puts and sell calls (at the same...
I notice on a another thread here that Tastyworks is supposed to launch and announce prices tomorrow (January 3, 2017). I'm not expecting them to...
I think that Bitcoin and some similar e-currencies have value because some participants are willing to pay for privacy. Those privacy seeking...
Any instrument can be overpriced and almost any can be underpriced. If you believe that the difference between your opinions and that of the...
Years ago, I tried deltaneutral.com and eoddata.com. I think that one of them stopped providing bid-ask data for options, which made the data...
You do not know that each option's price is exactly half way between its bid and ask, although you do know that it is somewhere within that range....
I think I need to retract my previous message. I'm not sure that it's all wrong, but I'm no longer confident in what I wrote, because, checking...
GloriaBrown, comparing to the OIL ETF, it appears to me that only about a fifth of of UWTI's loss can be attributed to "volatility drag" leverage...
I imagine that many of us want to participate in the market volatility triggered by the British European Union exit vote. I think it would help...
I think there would probably be more of a market for and less early exercise of very deep in the money options if the margin rule for a simple...
That is interesting. I didn't realize that Yahoo showed only monthly options for ^VIX. I don't know if there is a completely free open online...
Reposting my message from...
I don't fully understand the math, but I recommend checking out pages 1-11 of Jian Zhang's 2010 PhD thesis, "Path-Dependence Properties of...
Wow. Congratulations on actually trading these things (which I have yet to do) and especially for being profitable. Although you now officially...
If you were to trade the bonds in such a situation, I would think you would still want to have some estimation of what the holders of that...
Another resource I'd like to mention is http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/Default.jsp , which lets you search for bonds by company...
I have found the older blog postings at http://www.distressed-debt-investing.com quite educational.
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