IB issues aside, only one of you knows what you're talking about. "Give Up" means something specific:...
Quote from Soon2Bgreat: -How can my unrealized loss grow...i thought the point of an option was that you can only lose the premium? ($16)...
Everyone. Option exercises are randomly assigned by the OCC in a batch during the night. If it appears you have instantly exercised your call,...
If I got it right, you bought $7500 in short dated SPY options and sold $14,500 worth of SPY short right before the 2/27 crash. It seems...
You missed the key question. Futures or Equity? You can trade options on both, and the CFTC regulates one, SEC the other.
Most important is whether you're looking at American or European style options. You can put together boxes (and C/R) on OEX that are insanely...
It depends on what options you're trading. If you're covering 8 different equities, for example, having 8 monitors might be useful to show a few...
I think IB might offer Put/Call ratios in their charting tool. In DTN, I can simply query the option chains and total up the open interest and/or...
Cash vs margin account doesn't matter. You could stick your money into a risk free CD and earn at least $3.10 if you kept your cash rather than...
I see no reason the exchanges will regulate automated trading. I (and most screen traders) happen to like that there are 1000s of contracts...
It has nothing to do with whether it's an index or a component, it's the price of the underlying and the volatility. SPX calls have a strike of...
For currencies, the commercials are banks. The non-commercials are hedge funds. The non-reportables are the 21yo with Etrade accounts. There...
http://www.cftc.gov/cftc/cftccotreports.htm These guys have charts of the CFTC's COT data if you sign up for a free subscription:...
What derivatives--Futures or equity? What kind of job--broker, quant, prop trader?
This seems like a fairly standard system admin job. Look at monster.com in whatever city/state the job is located in and look under "system...
Sure, you can do spreads or outrights here: http://www.futuresource.com/charts/charts.jsp?s=EDM07-EDM08&o=&a=D&z=610x300&d=medium&b=bar&st=
Maybe I'm misinterpreting this, but a rolling contract always uses the front month. When the front month is done (usually about the time liquidity...
Nightly Business Report is vastly superior to the CNBC tripe, in my opinion. Maria's "feisty" persona is just getting ridiculous--endless...
For analysis, you should definitely find yourself a source of rolling contract data. It'll give you reliable support & resistance levels over...
One other suggestion--try starting with a few markets and learn everything you can about them. For example, wheat, soy, corn are all relatively...
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