I suspect there are a healthy number but some options writers around here are very aggressive and shoot down anyone hinting that they go long on...
In practice if you were assigned you would end up long stock on the TSX and short stock of the US side. Legally it poses no problem, but you need...
this market seems to have started a down-trend. We are past due for a little bit of a correction. When that happens I like to go on a bunch of...
It really depends what you are looking for... Right now you are looking at a 60% prob of a 200% payoff. That is not the strategy I use but in...
I used to be an option broker for a large bank's discount broker and I can tell you that I didn't know half of what I know now (which is still not...
Well i'm not an etrade client but does someone knows what impact the BNS buyout had on it? That should give an indication. One thing is for...
I realize they are cheaper, still that shouldn't be a problem as I pay hundreds of dollars a week in comm to my thief major bank online broker :S
Unless I understand wrong, TOS commissions seem considerably higher for options compared to IB... Am I right?
In that case Keops, would you say IB or TOS is better?
Well from the brokers I contacted, Anything that has 2 legs or more would be considered complex. These morons can't even offer that apparently
Do you guys know any broker that allows complex orders for options on the web? Also, as you guys may know, us Canucks are getting murdered on...
I think that is a very dangerous assumption. If you go out writing options left and right thinking you are playing against average joe, well at...
Well then it means that you believe the option priced in such a way that it may be so. Someone might disagree and if no-one does, well the option...
I do not find that surprising, like I said earlier, there is always a price that can be reached between intelligent buyers and sellers that will...
That is no argument. Obviously if a trade occurs, the buyer and the seller have different view on market direction. Since neither of them is...
I disagree, it doesn't matter how many time you are right or wrong, the only thing that matters is the bottom-line. Its a given that a seller will...
Yes I think it is possible under certain circonstances. I only trade options (successfully) and I rarely look at the greeks because: 1) Either...
I'm not too sure about whether there is an intrinsic hedge either way. Heck much smarter people than us have spent time on this and the fact that...
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