I use Interactive Brokers. I have periods of "idleness." Questions is: How to best generate risk free return while being "idle?" Short term T...
It is a glorified casino bet, pure and simple. There are various quant book descriptions, but since the outcome is either-or, and since the...
Low premium, high risk, less time to "GET ME OUT!"
Try FX binary options.
You can use any strategy in any market condition. There is no correlation among strategies, market conditions, and outcome. It is true that "you...
There are various discussions in quant books.
His "all-star" strategy is vertical spreads, but if you consider it carefully, vertical spreads have negative expectancy. All option strategies...
Sure want to do that? You are ITM short call. Adverse price move can easily crush your gain in volatility.
This website has lots of useful info, sometimes better than reading books. Does ET offer downloadable archive for a fee?
Hello: I find it harder to get fills if I trade spreads as single order on IB, but if I leg in, the fills are almost instantaneous. One...
The mathematical elegance in Black Scholes model certainly can be appreciated. But be mindful of the arrogance of the attempt of any quantitative...
I have been looking at the charts of various markets up to the 1980s. At that time, S&P was still in the hundreds. What I have observed is that...
The socialist in Washington is building a welfare state that Milton Friedman advocated against. The end for the Great American Empire has been...
This group has many math nuts, so I thought I'll post it here too. A mathematical consequence of debt-based fractional reserve monetary system...
A mathematical consequence of debt-based fractional reserve monetary system is that inflation and money supply will grow exponentially, even if...
IB doesn't specifically mention the margin requirement for short calendars, but I imagine it is the same as short calls or puts....
Hey spindr0, you in the Bay Area? In medicine? Me too! I am also known as TimeCorrosion.
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