Market's going nuts :eek: So much for selling Calls being safer than Puts. Sure it goes up slower, but this is still not the best scenario....
Sounds better when you go BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH :)
Hi RB, Just played around with my cahrt function on IB for the first time and must say Im quite impressed. Don't know enough to give you much...
Hi Heather, Would answer your question if I was familiar with haircuts but unfortunately Im not. Someone with a prop account would be able to...
Thanks for the reply Mark, Just trying to get a feel for how you're handling your risk as Im moving in similar direction in addition to credit...
Chris, Self explanatory but did you mean bear call ?
Hi Mark, Great posts in the last couple of pages. Been following your diagonal posts and i like your philosophy of containing risk first and...
Great point. Thanks for the tip:) Not sure why i didn't think of it earrlier. I've got the shaving of the bid ask down pat thanks to Coach and...
Ha ha...I was sort of crapping my pants with two contracts.:D Alls good. IB's up again and im filled on my long call. Now I can go to sleep....
Yup its working in my favour at the moment :D It was working again for a brief moment and crashed again before I could pull the trigger on my long...
Oh crap :eek: Globex on IB crashed as soon as I filled my sell leg of my ES Put Diagonals. But now i can't fill my buy leg as Globex is still...
Thanks, the reason I asked was that I noticed that there was virtually no volume, whether it was the AUG SEP or OCT EW options. Will have a good...
Coach, Is the the EW the options that expire at the END of each month? I had a look at them in IB but there virtually no volume traded on them...
Gday Coach, Looks like it could be your big payday today. Fingers crossed. Hope i didnt jinx ya :D
Mark, I think your reply from the quote was from me and not cdowis. Wonder how that happened :) a) Not sure how the diagonal behaves when I...
Mo, I stuffed up my reply to you. The bold quoted highlights also includes my replies to your comments. Except they're bolded as well:D Im sure...
Hi Ryan, Thanks for the risk profile and you're probably correct. Its probably due to the fact that the distance between my short strikes is...
I agree they're pretty lousy. However they have live chat for urgent matters like trade problems. They also have a ticket inquiry system but...
I now have a double diagonal SEP/OCT diagonals 1225/1200 @ 2.55 1350/1375 @1.10 Lets see how this one goes. Expect more delta neutralness...
Murray, Appreciate your help but don't worry about it. We're all flat out busy. I'll just play around with IB to get the risk profile graph. I...
Separate names with a comma.