Wow. You really have dug in deep to defend your ignorance in the face of lots of accurate and potentially useful information.
One of the many silly ideas in this thread is that the only available prices are what is available on the screen. SPX is among the most active...
Really? Every single time? Under all conditions? Please explain your thinking.
Exactly. While this technique may work to get filled, it would be silly to imagine that it forces the MMs to take trades they don't want.
I have been trading SPX options every day for over 5 years. Nonetheless, I don't pretend to know every corner of the CBOE rule book. I would...
Your technique may well work to get you a fill at near mid, but I think you misunderstand the rules. The MM is not at risk of losing the bigger...
I agree. Also, the uptick rule was in effect from 1938 to 2007. Plenty of potent bears in those years.
FYI As you could probably imagine, eating cannabis will not harm your lungs. On the other hand, its important to know that eating the amount...
I have been exclusively daytrading SPX options for years (quietly for the most part :) ). I would agree with you that its only worth paying the...
I agree. Bighog should be given credit, not attacked. He did what very few on ET ever do - showed some open-mindedness and growth. Classy :cool:
As a long time trader of SPX which trades similarly to OEX, I concur with what thegazelle and chiguy are saying about the MMs. Just to state...
ET chat has been taken over by hackers. Elflojo.net is what chat now claims to be.
They were bought out. Don't remember by who though.
Borders it? That is it. Back during the cold war, one of the ways we, in the US, used to distinguish ourselves from them under the 'Iron curtain'...
Likewise, cannot connect.
I see a # of posts about whether Hilary is socialist or moderate. If you look at the health plan she drafted (which basically was a giveaway...
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Nobody mentioned IB? It has been working on Macs for years now. Between the above charting software plus TOS and IB, you cover lots of bases.
Are you using the standalone or browser version of TWS? I have been using the latest TWS standalone build, version 862 on a dual G4 machine...
Saxon, Honestly I didn't know the original context when I found that quote and wouldn't have posted it if I had known it. Still.... knowingly...
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