Please call some of those in to repair the Euronext/Liffe exchange then, since it is has serious quality problems all the time. Since the french took over our Aex (Amsterdam) exchange a few years ago, it has gone from bad to worse. My only hope is that they will not get their hands on either the London or the Frankfurt exchanges. If that happens I will move my trade to the US for certain. Ursa..
Tongue in cheek. They are w/o a doubt the best in Europe. They're one of a few who will even make size-markets very quickly in structured product.
I feel your pain. Never had a good experience with Euronext when I was trading through the Ecco front-end.
Nikkei double barrier[binary outside strangle] -- 11,650/12,580 Premium: 11,140,000Y Payout: 22,000,000Y [includes prem paid] Expires: Aug 19, 2005 Negative edge: 1,425,000Y Neutrality: 12,115 basis Nik cash Traded at Osaka close last night. Cheap gamma, but I don't expect much movement. Famous last words.
r/a didn't know you had started a journal... hope you keep it going.. definitely going to check it out. regards, Ice
I'll be incorporating hybrid butterfly positions in the journal; specifically, positions incorporating both convex(vanilla) and binary payoffs. It is impossible to replicate the short-gamma/vol iron butterfly with an american-binary body-strike. The only method of trading the hybrid "long" butterfly is to trade the position as a short g/v vanilla body + long g/v binary wing-barrier. Positions will be limited to hybrid short gamma flys as I refuse to take a fractional r/r. I will replicate with OTC vanillas over listed options since american binaries are predominately duration bets over vol. It's critical to carry identical durations. Why do this? American "touch" barriers are expensive; typically twice the $prem that would be paid for the euro-variant, but they allow for a lot of gamma trading flexibility on the vanilla position if/when the wing-event is reached. I am enamored with long flys for many of the reasons I've stated in this and other threads; long upside gamma + short downside gamma, r/r, greek mag. The most compelling reason for trading the short gamma hybrid butterfly is the short convexity via the short vanilla body straddle.