So, to go back to the 6% question, can I make only three trades in my account or a bunch and if I hit six percent say with six 1 percent losses I...
I thought the rule was 2% per trade per month max loss and 6% per account per month.
I am short stock with two protective calls, delta hedged at 1 each day. So my max loss is the cost of the calls weekly, about 50 or 2.5 percent of...
Ok, I have 20K in a margin account. I short an ETF @ $20. My margin is $2,000 (at IB). If I want to keep this trade to 2% of my account that is...
Roll out to the next quarterly, September?
I'm new to spreads and I see that there is about 20 points between the June and March 16 ES contracts. They appear to be in backwardzation as the...
I sell a call at say 2150 expiring on Jan. 9 and buy one for 2220 expiring EOM, my margin, for the week, is $5000. And if I sell a put spread...
Just friggin' move to a tax-free state. I left NYC years ago for Florida and now reside in Seattle, in income-tax-free Washington State, although...
This group still happening? Edmonds here.
Any spread suggestions, while some of us wait?
Thinking of getting long on corn here. Caveats? Thanks.
What are the pros and cons of using the SPX index options versus the ES futures options? Is it simply the added leverage of futures v. index options?
Ok, the S&P is up 0.91 percent as of market close; I am up 2.7 percent. I am 60 percent cash. What is my alpha? Does this high cash position help me?
What are the caveats on selling a SSF on, say, FAZ, instead of shorting or buying a put. I assume the price has the time premium or hard to barrow...
Where would my SSF be marked? If I sold one @ 22 and it fell to 11 and the stock reverse split 3:1 to $33 am I marked at the new price at $22...
Hence my original questions. Sigh.
Besides a wide spread and the black swan of a complete crash in financials, which I can hedge with an option, what are the caveats for shorting...
Well, I could buy a call on that short NQ to hedge the risk of losing in the IRA and gaining in the taxable account. Thanks for the better...
I easily could be wrong but I believe that I would lose the cap loss deduction in the taxable account if I was trading ES in both accounts (in...
Supposed I have two accounts, each with, say, $25K, and one is a margin taxable account and the other is an IRA (with permission to trade...
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