This is will be an interesting experiment to quantify the real cost of slippage and poor execution of orders in front of high velocity traders in...
Your risk goes up if you maintain a short position over the longer term which is why you only do it when they compensate you for that. The Delta...
If you read the contract/agreement "fine print" provided by the broker, they are required to seek our approval to their relationship with provider...
When you short options, you get a credit into your account which is a negative number until a major event happens and then you get a margin call...
In reality, even if you have a graph which is an average across maturities, you wont see the one strike which has a spike on large volume/open...
There is no silver bullet for picking your strikes - you have to understand how time and vols impact pricing to balance profit vs time exposed to...
Let's hope IEX as the new 13th exchange can start getting the majority of the flow and then the other exchanges will have to follow. But that...
I agree that we easily forget how hard it was back in the '80s. I was not complaining then cause I was in the pit paying low commissions and...
The exchanges make money from this so why would they want to change? The regulator gets the heat from retail account losses only during flash...
Bitcoins are traded via the blockchain which is not hackable. This provides the most secure method of transaction between merchants and customers....
agree - not easy to find a flat vol skew or equal shift up across maturities but when it does happen, I know why I'm making money. When it is flat...
Today there is a good example of an oil company coming out of chapter 11 bankruptcy. The symbol is $BAS. The news says that existing common stock...
The problem is that the exchange charges fees for these players to spoof per order but They price it Low enough to encourage them to play these...
You are right in the Theta decay of the front month is higher. But Theta and Vega are inversely related. Thus if vols are expected to go up, the...
The more interesting question for me, where is the cost of producing a bit coin today and how will the exponential curve going forward in terms of...
So now they're moving beyond the kid trading from parents basement in London to the real culprits in the ongoing manipulation of the market....
Agree. Where the strategy fails is when the positions are too big and markets drop. You have too assume that stocks can drop 90%. You have to...
Not done the Mac when working in Chicago. Sydney Harbour and Thailand. Better night life!
Weekly puts have little premium and high gamma risk. The problem with the strategy is that stocks that go straight down or then go straight up...
The liquidity will dry up in these going forward as other Traders will want to trade standard options. This happens all the time in leveraged...
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