Lol, Yes. Does TOS give you the option of sending a spread to the COB of a certain exchange or do they make that decision for you?
Maybe I misunderstood. The OP entered a spread order that he felt should have been filled by simply trading on the best quoted markets in the...
If the spread is sent directly into the COB on the CBOE, and it can be filled on the quoted markets on that exchange, it will auto-trade with the...
As said earlier, your risk is being assigned on your calls. You may want to look as buying a deep put, or doing a combo where you buy the put and...
If you put a .40 bid in, you will be joined by the marketmakers. I played with these after I saw your post and was immediatly joined for every...
I watch the COB (complex order book). At the CBOE market makers/broker dealers cannot leave orders in the COB for SPX options, they can only take...
Not the case. This was the same guy. The people who trade against these sellers are generally the market makers in the pit. Their spreads get...
SPX on Friday June 24th 1268.45 SPX on Friday July 1st 1339.67 There were several large customers selling out of the money put and call...
RMORSE gave an excellent summary. Just to add a bit, Each brokerage house will have a different policy of where to send a spread based on the...
I have been trading the binaries on the SPX (BSZ) and the VIX (BVZ) on the CBOE for awhile. I think they offer some great opportunities,...
Today's opening print for the expiring June futures and options was based on the opening print of the July SPX 500 options. The series that the...
Looks like we will have to wait until late July now....
Or another easy way to look at it is your long option will automatically be "sold" for you and your short option will be "bought" for you at the...
I have never gotten any money from being long stock. If you do I think your brokerage firm is unique.
The problem with this is the 140 put would still contain the "premium" for the short stock. If you did this play you would be synthetically long...
This shows the edge you have by selling a put instead of simply buying the stock. Doing the entire reversal (selling a put and buying the same...
Looks like much more. Between 50 and 100%
Stock is very hard to borrow, So there is a huge premium in the conversions. Easy money for the brokers who are holding this stock. They can...
I believe the OP was referring to the Weekly options on the future, which expired Friday.
The July VIX options are priced off the July VIX futures. There is a pure arb here as both will expire at the same price. The expiration print...
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