I have some questions about how orders are matched. I am trying to write a simple simulator that tries to match orders. 1. After a trading...
I'm trying to understand the relationship between /ZN and TNX. There is another thread here from many years ago, but it didn't answer the...
I have two related questions: 1. For Euro style options, what keeps the premium up to date with the price of the underlying? In American style,...
I am looking to trade long term calls on QQQ, but the Dec 2024 calls haven't been listed yet. (Like the SPY Dec 2024's have). Is there...
Tl; Dr: How can the Fed raise interest rates if it has no assets on its balance sheet? The Fed sets the Federal Funds Rate, which is the amount...
When you have a [bull] Put spread, and the market goes against you, what ways are there to salvage the trade?
In bad times, I noticed several places increase the minimum margin requirement. I am exploring a buy-and-hold strategy, but it depends on not...
Trading SPY, I've noticed that some strikes tend to have tons more liquidity than others. I'm curious why traders focus on a few, round...
With more and more retail traders piling in, and S&P climbing higher and higher, when will SPY split? Not all brokerages support partial...
I'm trying to piece together why the fed is pumping $80B a month into the economy, and came up with a simple theory, which I would like you to...
Sorry for a possibly dumb question, but why isn't asset correlation a tradable security? For example, suppose I want to buy stock in two...
For the people here who have bought options data going back X number of years, is it worth it? Did the insights or strategies you found using...
I can't watch screens all day, and several of the trading strategies discussed on this site seem to focus on plays that require a lot of...
While reading about the TQQQ split coming up tomorrow, I also looked at SQQQ, which has split multiple times recently. OCC says that SQQQ...
For my own understanding of what I am trading, I am trying to figure out what are the real, actual margin equations being used. For the sake of...
I think the S&P 500 will not drop by more than 10% By February 19th, 2021. $SPY at close was $378.77. 90% of this is $340.89. There are three...
When I trade options, I usually like to work with SPY and QQQ LEAPS. Trading these tend to have pretty large spreads for new expiration dates,...
For funds like SDS and SQQQ, which track the inverse of an asset that usually goes up, it would appear that they would eventually: - Go towards a...
Without the presence of authorized participants arbing the price between NAV and the price, how can CEFs have value? It seems like they would be...
My employer gives me the choice to put some of my salary into the company option plan. The options they grant are 10 year, ATM options, which...
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