Options liquidity is a function of the liquidity of the underlying because in order to make markets, you need to be able to trade the underlying....
It's almost like the primary shareholder and largest creditor were the same entity...and drained the equity to creditors at shareholders' expense.
Not necessarily today, but this week looks a lot like we'll just chop into option expriy. A few single names on either earnings or news, but...
I mean short the spread...not buy the rights to a downward move. Edit: I guess 'rights' isn't the right word...."not bet on" the downward move.
There's still Sears employees?! Shareholders?!!! And here I thought ESL investments had drained the assets as its creditors... Hopefully the...
I take it the house is the counter party? I wouldn't because of the lack of physical delivery and apparent clearing mechanisms to limit loss if a...
A few insights as someone who learned the financial lessons well: Start with savings and delayed gratification. My dad always made sure to...
I do it when I'm out of town or on the road. It's fine for position management, but it's really difficult to get enough information to really...
Maybe reconsider this. The ES is extremely crowded and big money fights over pennies. Any signal you see is going to be painfully diluted, and...
JPM is American style exercise. Typically, in the US equities are done with American style. European style (or "cash settled") are what trades...
No. It expires on Oct 19th (or 12th, if you're using the weekly). You might get early assigned, particularly yesterday due to the dividend, and...
:rolleyes: [ATTACH] ...though, I thought the link covered that pretty well:
https://www.sipc.org/list-of-members?query=e*trade E*Trade is an SIPC member.
...because no market making operation ever lost any institution anywhere money. Ever. I got a bridge to sell ya!
If you expect AMZN to go to $2200 by mid October, you buy the November contract, in case the move comes in late October after the October expiry....
If you're mostly right, but a little wrong, having a little more time on the option will give you more opportunities to exit for less loss / more...
Not true. Especially if you're small, you can take your liquidity advantage and the disproportionate payoff for long options to make it profitable...
I think the interesting question would be how often do you have a biggest day ever, and how much larger is it than your previous? Doubling up an...
That's two $100m defaults by energy traders in as many weeks? This is starting to look less like anomaly and more like systemic flaw.
Well, it's worth noting that you're improving gains over buy and hold only by a fraction and there's a lot of work in managing the position....
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