No, this isn't the case. Shares and options are different things. In options trading a contract is a bag of usually 100 options. So I stand by...
This board and the whole site is IMO degenerated to an IB ads board.
The OP asked what the difference is between options and contracts, and I said: "Simple: options are traded as contracts, a contract usually...
Your understanding is poor. It's all part of their evil plan...
Simple: options are traded as contracts, a contract usually consists of 100 options... So it makes a big difference... :-)
I wouldn't recommend trading stocks with such a small capital because you can't make any significant profits with it b/c commission would eat it...
There is a simple answer to that: the government tries to prevent the collapse, for this the govt needs money, ie. must make debt. And regarding...
My understanding, from what I read from between the lines of the news, is that there are some migthy & greedy circles out there, especially...
An interesting New York Times article about the dirty practices of Goldman Sachs:...
Is that really per option, isn't it rather per contract? :-)
The "fuckwit" is you paid idiots of IB here with several aliases supporting yourself with your other alias... shame on you IB !
cry louder idi! :-)
This is to inform the readers of my journal (yes there have been some :-) that due to some problems here (guess what :-) I've moved my journal to...
If you mean their SMART routing... well... it's not that smart :-) SMART means IMHO: you give IB the permission to take the route IB likes for...
Really, I don't understand people who use EOD data for backtesting. IMO one should use bar data of 10 min or shorter. Using EOD is very...
Just try a search-engine, for example www.google.com Supply (sellers) and Demand (buyers), and the Market Maker (MM) between them. That is: the...
Hmm. it's been long ago when I played with the same formula, but my program gives for the same param: Call=Put=6.47725 for RFIR=50%, and...
Hey mod, what happened to the rest of my journal? The following postings are missing (the given times are in CET): traderum 12-20-09...
Datek was a good broker (anyone remember them? :-) They didn't trade against their own customers, they only provided a direct access to the...
I closed both positions with a profit: Underlying SecurityType Expiry Strike Put/Call Action Quantity Price Time Date Exch. CBY OPT JAN10 60...
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