I know, I"m not really one of those people looking for a hand out. I was more or else looking for a small refund as a "symbol of loyalty." The...
So here is the ugly disasterous update to this. So after I entered this trade not knowing that my wonderful TWS was jacked up and displaying...
Actually what I was referring to was not on the demo version but the actual version of TWS for live trading. Problem occurred a few days ago when...
Ah sorry about that. If your time horizon is just a few minutes then I don't see how options could help you much if you are hedging a long...
"Hmm. I know next to nothing about trading options. How would someone with a very short time horizon, who trades a few times during the course of...
I opened a ticket with IB because it appears their system didn't totally recover after that failure! Anybody else notice the NDX 1975/1950 Jan...
Anybody else getting bogus ask prices on the RUT spreads for Jan. I've gotten screwed on some orders because IB is displaying incorrect ask...
How is it possible that my trade workstation is showing a bid price of .20 for a spread and I put in an order to sell that spread for .20 and now...
I really hate SET. My personal rule has been if there is a big event coming up on SET then I will typically look to close early regardless of how...
Would now be a good day to buy straddles or strangles? It seems like 1500 is the "fence" and depending on that beige book tomorrow afternoon and...
Here is an observation that I wanted to get some opinions on..... Looking at the 20 day and 10 day EMA's for the past couple months: Its...
If I had to bet, I would guess they were at the 1475 short strike. There seemed to be a ton of contracts there before expiration. I had...
I think you'd get a margin call or either the broker would immediately do a buy order for 10 XYZ APR07 calls at market price (serious potential to...
You guys are right, I should have asked to have them bust my trade since it was made based on the one they busted on me. Wouldn't have hurt to...
Hosed by IB, anybody else have problems with "busted trades"? I was short an SPX 1440 April call yesterday. Went in today and put in an order to...
:) I just wanted to thank Donald Tomnitz (CEO) of DR Horton for making "suck" an acceptable description for bad trades. I still can't stop...
I get the feeling my put credit spread positions are going to "suck" for the rest of this month and next month......
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