Closing a position earlier and exercising early are two different things. You talked about exercising early which never makes sense when there is...
It never makes sense to exercise an option early if there is any extrinsic value left in the option. If you want a stock position, you would be...
Interesting. I don't see any March 4th SPY options listed on any exchange. Did MIAX mistakenly list these early?
The OCC supplies this information for the non futures options (SPX, SPY, QQQ). You can see it here, OCC - Volume Query (theocc.com)
Someone posted this story a while ago describing how the scam works. Apologies to who originally posted this, don't remember who it was. A...
Shorting the new Bitcoin ETFs will cost you some money. Borrow rates currently around 50%, if you can get availability. BTCO IBIT, HODL, BRRR...
An expert trader will make a trade when they have a perceived edge. An ordinary trader will make a trade based on either emotion (I think this...
No, the OCC does not release this information. I would say very few would have been exercised. Although SPY did trade below 468 after hours, it...
These can be traded only by current holders, not by anybody else. This is not necessarily true. Although some brokers may restrict opening...
Not really correct. There are many different exchanges. You can be first in line on one exchange and it can trade at your price on any another...
My account at Fidelity lists the money I have in SPAXX as non margin buying power, and twice that amount as margin buying power. SPAXX is one of...
The funds are available for trading.
It may not matter much if you are trading SPY options which are .02 wide, but it does with most other options. If you enter a limit order with RH...
Fidelity charges .65 a contract for options. Not zero commission
Fidelity's current rate they are paying in their "SPAXX" money market fund is 4.98%. They don't charge $5 a month and you're dealing with...
It could just be an error with their platform, not intentional. Many years ago, my execution platform was blocking orders in pennies in a product...
Wait, they only allow pennies above 3? Thats even stranger, if they did limit pennies, you would think it would be to only options below 3. You...
For an option to be quoted in pennies, it must be part of the "Penny Program." This is basically based on overall volume and can change. The OCC...
I don't necessarily agree with this. I this isn't simply out of the money strikes trading nickels. What is different here is how extremely out of...
Interesting, never thought of some type of marking motivation.
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