I trade Qm via IB. No problem during the trasition. If you want to find out how many people on ET trade QM, you may want to contract a poll.
I assume you don't want to fork the $500 to own the SPAN calculator from CME. IB, for example, have a "check margin" feature you can apply to an...
milstar, I respect the fact that English is not your first language. It's not mine either, but it's very hard to understand your statements or...
Guys, I assume you understand that 15,000 options a day is nothing. This number has to be divided across all strikes and all expirations, CALLs...
Isn't OIH an ETF? Are the others actual indices? If that's the case, I read interpretation of the tax law that claims that options on wide-based...
ADLE, I suggest you use technical stops on the underlying stock. When you go long the option, decide at which stock level you'll close out the...
Vedanta, Regarding commodities, IB lets you trade options on debt (bonds/notes) and Eurodollars. The strategy is called a "short strangle"....
Few comments: When you say you have 50% invested in these naked PUTs, I hope you mean that your margin requirement is 50% of your capital. I...
Why even consider this? There are so many reputable on-line brokers that will let you trade options on heating oil, or any other tradable...
I also keep accounts with IB and TS. I have 95% of my trading activity with IB and use TS mainly for charting and strategy. I trade with TS just...
andysmith, Don't confuse between tax treatment and margin rules. these are not necessarily related. SPX options have margin rules according...
I cannot understand the fixation of the market on the weather. The coming storm is never going to strengthen to Hurricane and is not coming...
From classical technical analysis perspective: The breakout from the $62 level was expected, after a huge ascending triangle. The breakout went...
I trade mostly SPX options, but recently started ES options (both using IB). My observations: 1. ES has much less volume, but reasonable...
ktm, Could you provide a pointer to the part that deals with section 1256? I assume that wide-based indices are section 1256 contracts...
You can do everything you mentioned with Excel, besides SPAN margin. This one, you must buy from CME ($500 if I remember correctly). IB has a DDE...
Thanks for bringing this article. It could be very nice to have SPAN margin system applied to stock futures and stock/index options...still in...
This is not cool! I'm full time, trading is my only income. Married with kids. I trade more than a year and more capital than you mentioned,...
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