Not talking about the arb. Still there are situations where retail traders would trade conversions or reversals. Here's an example. You short...
Sorry that's not true.
He's got 6 weeks to go until AUG expiration, not just one week, and he's nervous. Adjust that OTM put side of he condor until you can sleep with...
When I saw the 54 handle on FAZ this morning I thought, ok, either a reverse split or the banking system finally collapsed. :eek: You can see...
C/R's are locks, didn't you get the memo?
If you put the spread on 15 times for a .43 credit, you pulled in $645. Spending $300 or so to buy the 42p gives you a butterfly for less than...
There are many more things you could do (beyond the three things you mentioned) when faced with the happy problem of having long calls moving in...
1) Would you leg into a riskless fly (buy back the 42 strike) and take a riskless 1/3 the current open p/l of the trade for the chance of a 7x...
There are the NYBOT/ICE futures and options: USDX. If you only have access to stocks and stock options, the PowerShares UUP (bull) and UDN (bear)...
The US gov't will raise the capital gains taxes and possibly muck with 60/40, but they will not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Realize...
HR 676 is a Conyers and Kucinich vehicle and not "mainstream" legislation. http://www.hr676.org/
With Mirus you can choose Dorman or Rosenthal Collins Group to clear. You can also trade with Dorman directly and not use any introducing broker,...
Nice article from Green on the subject:...
Will active traders also have to wear yellow armbands?
Tom is transferring 4,653,400 shares to TD. He did quite well yes. The Reporting Person is deemed to beneficially own 4,653,400 shares of...
Yes but of these, you can only trade options on ES, NQ and CL. Also TOS has no bond futures (ZB) as of yet.
TOS is surprisingly weak in futures options, wouldn't you say? AFAIK they offer only ES AND NQ and, within the last couple of weeks, they added...
so the clearing operations will shift away from Penson to td's self-clearing? i remember so well what happened to cybertrader after schwab...
Ugh. Reminds me of the Schwab acquisition of Cybertrader.
There may also be regulatory risk with the new Congress. They may feel that these inverse ETF's are short instruments in disguise, etc. God...
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