I should've made my question more clear. I would like to be able to have a list of tickers in excel and use VB to download into excel the open...
Does anyone know a good source of option open intrest in equities? I tried to get it out of IB using their API but it is not one of the data...
IMHO - gray area. Buying an 70-85% delta call/put is not substantially identitcal to stock. The greek risk even at that delta level will...
Vtrader uses Sterling. It is a really nice platform kinda looks like REDI w/ extensive API functons and documentation. Furthermore, the support...
Highly unlikely since they are totally diff instruments.
I agree with the signs of trouble except for the switching software part. Why would that signal a bad event. Firms switch due to technology...
I sigma away? 1 Bernanke sneeze and your short strikes are ITM.
Save yourself the aggravation of going to these "Free" courses. They are not free in the sense that once you give them your email and tel you will...
This is what I don't understand about self clearing. How can firms such as Genesis, Hold and Assent (before the Sungard merger) call themselves...
vguy, save yourself the aggravation of going to these "Free" courses. They are not free in the sense that once you give them your email and tel...
I am not in any way trying to sound pompous. I've been struggling as a trader in any style let alone the NYSE trading. I am trying to solicit...
I agree with some of your points specially the optimizing of position size to be able to sleep. However, there might be better ways to hedge that...
Congrats if that happens to you.. In that situation, you definitely will be able to sell your put close to intrinsic. However , realistically if...
I do think if you have a bad downside exposure a vix hedge might be the only thing that would work. As i've said, if your position would suffer...
Before the advent of 24 hour trading, markets use to close overnight. Gap risk means if you have an open position, your position can be subject to...
Steelhead, would you please clarify what you mean by candy canes? Furthermore, could you please give me an example of a certain stock that moved 1...
Black swans by their nature are generally unhedgeable even in this 24 hour trading environment. Think about this for a minute- you are short gamma...
Vtrader is a firm based in SF. They clear thru Merrill and a trader can trade indexes, stocks, options, futures.
hk, i guess out of the all ET NY scalpers , few if any are finding hybrid different .
Redman you raised good points. In 1997-99 I sat next to a guy in Atlanta flipping $2 stocks making 1/8, then 1/16. At that time there were no ECN...
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