According to this site, the Fed is good:...
Please help me understand: According to yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/A-piecebypiece-guide-to-apf-3479716471.html?x=0 , there will be a...
Any advantage to hedging long S&P with long VIX call as opposed to other means?
In addition to what others have said, consider the following: 1. Stop-loss does not cost money; buying put does. 2. Stop loss suffers from...
Thank you all for your informative replies. Some options spreads have limited profit potential and unlimited risk. If brokers allow people to...
I have been trading my IRA with IB, and selling naked options is forbidden in IRA accounts. I am thinking of opening a regular trading account,...
Points well taken. Thank you demoship!
Some hedge funds keep their trades secret by have several brokers or clearing firms each of which only executing only part of the overall planned...
I honestly don't know how I posted it twice. Probably doing it half asleep around midnight :) You posted it twice for maximum effect!?:D (JK,...
Here is an example of a meltdown: at the beginning of Apr this year, I didn't think SPX was going to break above 1470. I placed a credit spread...
I have been trading my IRA; so I have not needed to report anything yet. My questions are: 1. If one is trading a regular account, will his or...
I am looking at several indices, DJX, DXL, MNX, RUT, SPX, OEX/XEO, and am trying to stick to just one. SPY has bad fills in my experience because...
There was a thread sometime back discussing an "optimal" options position: a flying wrangle. I have been playing with some models and I am...
I am trying to read the IB online help pages on Combo Orders. Below is the notes section in sentence fragments. Can anyone understand what they...
Gamma also exponentially increase if and ONLY if the option is ATM. So, if you short an option and it moved OTM, gamma exposure is limited as...
The magnitude of theta rises exponentially as expiration approaches (exponential time decay) --- ONLY and ONLY --- for ATM options. Theta is more...
My concern is, "every action has an equal and opposite reaction." I am not sure if DNDN will come down just as fast and hard. I got burned on XNL...
DNDN has risen from $5 to $23 in a week; IV is record high: IV today, 4/9/2007 is 201%, and 30 HV is more than 300%. I am uncertain where to...
I am using IB TWS. Some of my trades are multi-legged and I do not want to leg-in the trade. Is it possible to use LIMIT order for the...
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