Been doing some long Leaps calls and shorting front month, decent but unspectacular returns. I did have a mini-blow up on one stock (GS), however....
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I'm pondering stops (market) on IB/Globex in the currency futures. I will be checking allow sop triggering outside RTH. Is this dangerous in that...
Ok, so I'm puzzled over Ansbacher's new option writing strategy, which is to delta hedge short puts on the SP 500 futures with the futures...
Max is now just selling puts and hedgeing with short futures (on SP and ZN or their floor equivalents). Will someone explain to me how the guy...
Have two IB accounts, three Fidelity, on TIAA-Cref, trade options, futures, stiocks, bonds. Any program out there take downloads from all these...
If so, does it only make sense with Portfolio Margin, rather than Reg-T, and anyone know of any scanning service/software that picks up...
Apologies fror a currency futures question here, but there is no currency futures forum and financial futures doesn't really respond much to...
Is there any software out there that does the following: Allows you to set a clock to the local time and then gives you a list of what time it is...
If I choose MTM for an account my wife and I are listed on jointly, do all our other joint and separate accounts also have to take MTM for tax...
Looking for something with options scanning, for futures, akin to OptionsVue or Options Station2001. But for a Mac.
Any suggstions for Mac-compatabile software that will plot, scan options on futures -- major currency pairs, 10-year bond, gold, ES, in particular?
Let's use options on currency futures, for reasons I won't bore you with. Let's say I buy the June EUR futures @ 135 and write an ATM call for...
Is there a forum on ET that relates just to taxes and maybe money management? Secondly, tax question: If I elect MTM for an account that is...
On Globex, let's say I am short June Yen futures -- and sold the futures @ 82.50 -- and also sold a June Yen futures put at the 82 strike. And...
Let's say I have $100K in two accounts; one an IRA, the other a regular trading account. Let's say I write OTM futures calls in the IRA and offset...
I generally don't do spreads, but I recent had some ES short options I sold go in the money and I took the contracts rather than rolling out or...
Simply put, is this legal: Let's say I had an IRA with $100K and a non-IRA brokerage account with $100K . My aim, for tax purposes, is to generate...
Can anyone here offer a precis on the pros and cons of each for a small trader (under $1 M) looking for premium collecting strategies. Been...
I know there is the subset of pro investor/traders/CTAs out there who mainly look to collect premium -- Ansbacher types -- by writing options,...
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