At times IB has charged me very small fees for shorting stock. I would be horrified if they charged me anything significant without some warning....
If you are able to borrow the stock and sell the conversion, I would worry about your subsequently being forced to cover your short stock...
R0bert, I think SHLD shares have very high short interest and are probably not available for shorting. That probably limits arbitraging the...
Think about this scenario. The stock rises significantly and the stock gets called away in June. Then you have to re-buy the $5 strike CC DITM...
Since nobody else answered I'll contribute what little I know. Yes, options trades can be broken and they can leave you net short as in your...
With IB you setup a Combo order to buy one option and sell another. Then you can make it conditional by highlighting the un-transmitted order...
So ignoring the mechanics of your explanation it sounds like the philosophy of my #2 example applies (the government loans the money out). If...
Thanks, guys, for the replies, but I still don't get it. The replies seemed to describe mechanics, but I was looking for a simple philosophy...
Can someone give me a simple explanation of how the supply of new dollars is introduced into the economy. I'm looking for a real simple one or two...
As I recall an ITM CC may disqualify the preferential dividend tax treatment. Don
There are several sites where you can display an entire option chain and copy and paste it into Excel. CBOE is one place. They even have a .CSV...
See if this thread helps. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=110264&perpage=6&pagenumber=3
Okay, I got it now. Yeah, seems to me selling short something that you previously held long is quite a different position and should not be...
Assuming that you mean that you hold long stock while simultaneously selling short (say in a different account) I think that is deemed a...
If you are saying that CC's are ng because NP's are a better equivalent, in some cases I would beg to differ. The reason that CC's might be...
Of course, there are no absolute answers to your questions. Everything depends on you ability to predict the underlying stock movement. About...
I have seen spread orders that I entered through OptionsXpress appear on the IB combo screen. I don't think I have seen vice versa, but I have not...
I think I would consider the two transactions independent trades and book the P/L for each accordingly. If the leap is held more than 12 months I...
I just found a solution to display contract IV on the IB main trading screen. In this thread myself and a prior poster complained that...
Just to amplify/confirm what a poster said earlier, with IB you used to be able to display IV for individual options on the main trader screen....
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