Trading three to five SPXW or XSP short iron condors a day. My current brokers are Firstrade an IB for ES and MES options. I can’t see how anyone...
I have some gains in cash forex, and I'm wondering if they will be put in the Sec. 1256 box or elsewhere on my IB tax reporting.
If I leg into a spread, a deliberately or accidentally, and I later want to place a stop loss as a spread, can I do this? How?
I have understand 250k is the limit for cash in a brokerage account that is insured by the SIPC. So, what do large investors, those whose cash...
Do I have this correct? UVXY is not Sec. 1256 [but tracks VIX futures, which are Sec. 1256]. The options on UVXY, however, are Sec. 1256.
Or any options? (Not looking for Index Options or Futures Options nor a Canadian ETF.)
SPXW in particular.
This account just writes far OTM credit spreads or iron condors on ES 0DTE and has performed adequately for my needs. But the commissions to IB...
When is the KVUE stock from the JJ split off going to be available for trading?
Every morning my broker (IB) flashed on my screen just before the open what the Futures Leaps spread is. Two contracts versus two LEAPS. What does...
Let's say I do something crazy and sell a futures option, ES, expiring in 2027 way out of the money for like 15 and collect $750. Where does that...
Ok, right now I can sell an ES Sept-Dec spread for like 47. But if I were to separate sell the front and buy the back, the difference is like 53...
The ones that I have Googled are all stock or index only. Does one exist online that would, say, calculator (and graph, perhaps) a 0DTE NQ DITM...
I sell a strangle ATM both put and call but hedge it with a long put and call OTM the equivalent of the combined premiums. Also is there a scanner...
Looking to short the dollar but wanted to use an index option of the dollar against a basket of currencies. Can't seem to find one that has...
Thinking about going fully Apple but I hear the Apple download for TWS is awful. True? What about going Parallels and Windows download?
Let’s say I have 100k. Span margin. Futures an futures options only. Why do I sense based on limited experiments that I perform better with...
Had a stop hit at 4:16 eastern and thought that was odd. Rookie question, I know.
I looked it up on the help page and it seems on only offer the tool on stocks or as a strategy has a stock underlying. Nada for futures....
Do I have this right? Portfolio return is the return on your pool of capital; ROIC is your return on that portion used for trading, which I...
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