Supposedly TDA does have PM (portfolio margin) capabilities and TOS legacy account holders will continue to have PM, but nowhere on TDA's site...
I'm really curious to see how end of month August numbers end up for you, lazard. At one level I'm guessing your bias towards FI has led you to...
vol on levered ETFs tends to be extremely overpriced so I'd remain hesitant on buying puts on these 3x bear funds. moreover with 3x leverage,...
Touche. When real money is on the line traders/investors/etc start to act irrationally *gasp* and usually make some rash decisions. Papermoney is...
Hey ETers I'm just trying to figure out the appropriate scenario for each of these option strategies. As a guy with a reg-T margin account I...
Interesting. Thanks for the clarification of your earlier example, I can now see why you would relate an option's volatility as the premium which...
Thanks for the information rew :). On a slightly separate note, I'm wondering what is the appropriate way to assess implied volatility?...
Thanks for the clarification dmo :). However in regards to your statement that the volatility is akin to the probability of the option expiring...
Hey ETers, I'm slightly at a loss as to how to attribute the reason as to why a put sale can be a profitable despite the underlying not moving...
Hey Everyone, So I was looking at the volume of exchange traded option contracts across large cap underlyings (i.e. XOM, AAPL, GOOG) and I kept...
I tend to agree with MTE and others that I would call it being short the condor as opposed to "long the condor." That being said if one were to...
Not fair spindr0 :P Usually I ask some pretty good questions. This time I got hosed and asked a pretty silly one.
HOLY SHIT I feel REALLY dumb right about now :/
Hey Everyone, I was wondering how we could calculate the 2 standard deviation move in an underlying by using IV. Everyone and their mom knows...
Is the vol term structure for indexes almost always lower IV for front months and higher for back months (barring rare events i.e. flash crash)?...
My friend is one of dailyfx's main contributors and you're right. The guy is bullish on the buck like nobody's business. He just cannot see...
IF you use TOS you can see what's going on in ISE's COB. (see screenshot) :) I guess the only exchange that's left is PHLX. However I...
I wonder if that customer extensively used margin when trading? Given TOS's exorbitantly high margin rates relative to IB, I believe if you use...
Thanks for the insight Nazz. BTW why did you have to summarize my earlier post to make it "family friendly" we're traders who naturally have the...
Care to explain how hedging with the underlying assuming HV is greater than the IV you shorted leads to a negative replication error?
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