Imagine you're in a futures pit. At the moment, everybody is 3 bid at 4. That means everybody wants to buy at 3, and sell at 4. You want to buy...
Neat trick! I also like the flexibility of arranging data the way I like in Excel spreadsheets. I find Hoadley add-in option functions a very...
What about reversals? Wouldn't your short stock margining benefit from PM? Thanks.
Also, I've been following crude options pretty closely, and it's been a very long time since they traded below 30%. 28% is just wrong.
The problem is the IB IV quotes, which are wrong. As you correctly suspected, IB is using the wrong expiration date - July 1. Using 25 days...
Thanks Xflat for that detailed explanation. Most people think of futures as arcane but compared to stocks, it seems to me that futures are...
Well that explains some of it. I'm still not clear why that generates such massive ITM call volume. Xflat - if you have a moment - what are...
Where's the best place to get info about dividends and x-div dates?
If you look at MCD June calls, there was huge volume today in consecutive ITM calls - the 45 calls through the 52.5 calls. On previous days these...
Premiums are mighty pumped in LEH - about 140% ATM - be careful!
In addition, I believe individual firms can offer penny increments internally in additional stocks. In IB for example, imagine stock xyz that is...
QUOTE] dmo... when and where is the settlement price published? thanks [/B] The settlement prices are published by the exchanges and are...
In options on futures, the only meaningful EOD price is the "settlement" price, which is an officially-determined price that lies somewhere...
Pretty similar, although keep in mind that ETF's and their options are regulated by the SEC, while futures and their options are regulated by the...
What is a steepness level?
QQ, my experience with Schwab is that they are conservative to a fault - perhaps excessively so. I would guess their policies about borrowing...
Very well said. You can slice and dice your risk/reward a zillion ways with options, but at the end of the day this simple truth will hold.
I think that's about right. In reality though it's not a zero-sum game because in reality you either get caught in a truly catastrophic loss or...
Thanks for your reply QQ. Ironically, Schwab was the company that "could not" borrow the stock, which was USO. A few minutes later I shorted a...
I confess that I'm completely and totally baffled by this whole stock-shorting thing. I've now had the experience of having one firm telling me...
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