I am not doing this in the hope to find arbitrages. I have a more practical need: I want to minimize the numbers of quotes I retrieve from...
Sorry I am not sure I get it. Suppose I am at the beginning of May and on the market I have options expiring in May and in June. I also have a...
Thanks for the answers. Just to clarify, the situation I am facing is like this. I am given the bid/ask prices for 1 ATM call, 1 25D PUT and 1...
Thanks. I cannot get it from my quotes or in general? If you want to price an option and you need to pass the interest rate and the dividend...
Hi guys, I saw the following information on the Eurostoxx option market today (expiry June 15 2018) underlying: 3481,89 future June18: 3465...
Hi, I am trying to understand how I can create a P&L attribution for an option strategy. I know that if I compute the P&L everyday, I can use the...
Hi, I was trying to install Multicharts from my Interactive Brokers TWS. At one point the installation throw an error and can't progress. I...
So did you manage to make HMRC see options' P&Ls as capital gain after you found a full time job?
I have a full time job that is unrelated to trading. The salary from this activity is my main source of income. On the side I trade options but...
Thanks for your reply. But if you are not self-employed and your main source of income is the salary, is the profit from option trading treated as...
Do you know if is it possible to have the account in EUR? I am going to trade only EUR denominated contracts so if I open the account with, say,...
Thank you. But who is in charge for the conversion to GBP? Is it something that brokers do?
Thank you for the help. I have another doubt and sorry in advance for these stupid questions. I am planning to open an account with Interactive...
But there they say: "Where an income tax payer uses a swap to hedge interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk, credit risk etc arising from...
Thank you for the answer. I am searching info on HMRC website but it is a real mess to be honest. So far I found these two pages quite...
But how does it work? Suppose I want to use Interactive Brokers to trade options. How do I use Kyte?
Thank for the answer but, as said, I want to trade the actual contracts from the exchanges (LIFFE, Eurex...). No CFD or bets.
I live in UK and I see that there are 2 taxes when trading: - CGT to be paid on capital gain and is 18% or 28% depending if you are basic tax...
Hi and thanks for the reply. I hope you can share your opinion about the calendar backspread strategy. :)
Hi all, It seems that volatility cones are an important tool in the options trader arsenal but I am not sure how to apply it and how to...
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