Following in that line of logic, how can you imply that a bank will get in trouble for this one? It's always the little guy who takes the fall. Oh...
It's trying to hold the 100 DMA. In the futures market it hit 200 DMA the night of the plunge, but not the cash market. Wonder if they will try to...
XIV is not marginable at IB, so yeah even if it went to zero, you're not gonna be in debt to them as you can only trade what you have in equity....
Lawyer's are gonna do what they do right? Same idea behind a lotto ticket, if you don't try you can't win. I think no claim. Risks outlined in...
History has been littered with people who lost everything in the stock market. Won't be the first and won't be the last. But especially now with...
Yep, the guy who sold the AAPL naked calls before an ER beat and gap up. Turned out to be a fake with a paper account. Just trolling. It's a form...
Use IB, which has auto liquidation so at least it tries to you keep you in the black, instead of going into debt and owing them money for a margin...
So the best move for a huge multi billion dollar hedge fund is to simultaneously dump their broad market stocks during technical weakness...
It's possible for people to make bad trades or have bad timing. All it takes is one bad trade and bad position sizing to ruin years of gains. And...
This. I'd take it with a grain of salt. It's possible it's real. But its possible it's a prank. Sort of a backhanded insult to the real players...
I would have imagined that guys who "sell vol for a living" ought to lurk around doing nothing much, until one of the black swans eventually hits...
The problem is it's reactive, not proactive. Just recently VIX went from nothing to super high in a matter of 2 days. S&P went from near ATH to...
I got the message via trader workstation with the flashing red notification on the top right. Intraday is lower margin during trading hours. But...
Would suck if a guy sold a put spread, and the options don't trade anymore so maybe no autoassignment as there is no value to the underlying...
The value of the strike of the put still matters though right? If someone sold say a naked $50 put on the XIV, he gets ~$5K loss? If someone...
What happens to long & short option holders of these products if they are 'terminated'? What value do you base on in terms of determining P&L or...
Seriously, could happen. What a way to clean house though. Maybe someone hated the retail VIX traders and decided to clean them out. Engineer...
T1 (material news) trading halt issued for 3 inverse VIX ETNs this morning: SVXY, XIV, and ZIV.
I'm not in this but there's lot of talk about the XIV hitting the -80% mark which is a termination event according to the prospectus of the ECN?...
Gartman said it's now likely a substantive bear market in stocks. [MEDIA] You know what that means.
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