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Ken Griffen - The founder of Citadel - began his trading career trading convertible bonds with a few thousand dollars from his dorm room....
In can only be closing, but he has open interest so it is closing. There does not need to be a offer and of course there is no bid or a cabinet...
If this is a US listed securities market your broker can enter what is called a cabinet trade. As the previous poster mentioned you should be...
This is most likely a threshold "hard to borrow security. So in effect the american box sells for more than it should because the risk in the box...
I think as a general view on taxation - we the trader community should simply do trades that make sense. Washington will eventually get around to...
No The delta is the expected rate of change not a % measure of premium. The purpose of the BS model is to craft an indifference price or...
So let's think about that. If you allow a spread in a cash account with no requirement what happens at expiration. Say I've sold the 90/85 put...
As posted this isn't a married put. The original post says sell the put. There is no common name for this combined position. It may be a...
With the exception of accounts eligible for portfolio margining ... option requirements are meant to avoid a margin call at exercise. So the...
Margin interest. The spread over their cost of money
You should have this discussion with their compliance area. If you intentionally sold a deep call after being told the stock was hard to borrow...
Great book on Spreads is"The Traders Guide To Equity Spreads"
This issue here won't be US law, but rather the laws of the country the broker is based in.
Carry is priced into the option .. that is correct, but the stock position still has a cost of carry. Stock doesn't carry for free
The covered write has a cost of carry and the dividends have a present value. Adjust for that and the CC and short put will be much closer to an...
There has, in fact, been a ton of research done on this topic. What you are talking about here is not skew it is term structure of volatility....
Snopes has had this as a false story almost every month since late 2008
If you are doing genuine research you will in fact discover that billions of dollars of structured notes have in fact been issued and trade under...
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