I dealt with this a while back. I ended up talking to the CBOE regulators. They told me that the strikes MUST be equidistant. They told me...
Something like this? I didn't use a real stock, XYZ at $50. long 100 45/42.5 put spreads and long 64 shares of stock to make it neutral. I...
"free insurance" ? I agree that a put backspread can be a good option here but you're not going to put on a 5 point 1 by 2 for a 5 point credit...
Depends on how much of a hedge you want. You have to decide what sort of draw down you're willing to take. Are you going to hold until...
I don't know IB's house rules. I know their margin maintenance system used to be completely automated and would sell you out without any human...
from a margin stand point,: the Profitable Option rule will allow you to liquidate a stock position on the business day following expiration...
It doesn't matter if the position is a winner or a loser, if you don't have enough excess equity to cover the requirement you may be forced to...
Power of Attorney means the account still legally belongs to one person. You could open a joint account Tenets in Common. If you each put in...
Anyone have any experience with Simplex, Greenmoore, or any other of these prop/arcade firms that scalp options? I've had offers from a couple...
A friend of mine asked me to look at her computer because it was running slow and locking up. The proccesses list under ctrl/alt/delete only...
Looked at Echo's site. Don't see Sterling listed anywhere but their Echo Trader II platform is just InstaQuote with a skin on it.
I know this doesn't do anyone much good now but my IT dept. told me yesterday that there was a T3 server junction in downtown Chi. that was having...
maybe copy the data into excel, change it, the export to your software? in excel you can reformat it number format > custom> yymmdd
how about this enter time and trade P/L on sheet 2
You may have a lot of apps running in the backgound. A lot of things like IMs, printer/ digital camera software, and media players are set to...
MTE, you're right. I forgot to include one part of the calculation. ((1/Delta)/stock price)*option price ((1/.97)/10.70)*3.4=.327585 or...
something like this?
Something like this?
% to double is a bs figure invented by one of those news letterguys that has no relevance in that it does not take in to account any other factors...
I looked at the same deal at Best Buy. I was told that it would take a minimum of 2 weeks to get up and running. Couldn't do the self install...
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