They expire on different dates, the 19th and the 30th.
There's more than one way to model a cat. I have not had time to follow up on this, but as a newbie to this whole realm I am curious about the...
IB started charging for assignment/exercise?!?
Why not consider 2? As long as the idea is 'the original position is not acceptable' then why not initiate a long call position without...
WTF? I will say in reponse to OP that my personal opinion is that the trade was a bad one. I have no idea your thought process at the time,...
It sounds very much like the percentages are unlimited.
If approval is required it can be requested and approved via a checkbox in TWS configuration. As a recent account opener, I am certain I made no...
wtf? If you'd been paying attention you would be well aware that dagnyt has NO interest in earning pennies while risking big bucks he...
i am inclined to agree; i have an open ticket (T541577) which may be related to the symptoms you describe; i do not experience what you do,...
as has been already pointed out in this thread: long or short premium may work for condors, but not 'whatever else you got'
I cannot resist: he is flying by the seat of his pants.
Often one sees reference to the work of Black, Scholes, et al in attempting to assign probabilities of price movements for an option's underlying....
I am going to hazard that the temptation to do this is stronger in a falling market. In the situation I mentioned in your prior thread...
I think he's suggesting the purchase of a call so the underlying doesn't "get away." If there's that much surge in this strong dividend payer, I...
I cannot imagine a good reason to be buying or selling calls so far out of the money which expire so long from now on a leveraged ETF with such an...
faz what do i win?
Perhaps I have been unclear, but I think you are misreading between the lines. My IC was placed a bit later than OP's with the result that...
I am in a similar position and have been considering this. My contract is MNX (apr) and I am looking at the call side. There is still quite a...
Nice find!
This was actually meant to go in a different thread (about leap calls), and poke a little fun there where one could imagine some party sold a 100K...
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