http://www.tdwaterhouse.ca/services/dtfeatures.jsp may even need margin for long calls/puts. (???)
oh really? I stand corrected.... When I inquired about Covered calls to TD Waterhouse in 2007, they told me i needed a margin account....
or if you're in Canada, covered calls requires a margin account as well.
thanks for the advice. i know "you" can't learn to swim from a text... and i'm motivated to learn and trade. But i want to learn as much as i...
I still feel like I don't have the knowledge to apply the things yet... I'm still trading basic strategies for now. I want to get to Cottle's...
alright, that might make most sense. I don't consider myself a complete beginner, though I have lots to learn. I'm reading Natenberg right...
^ lol thanks guys, appreciate the advice. If this is a reference book that I would refer to, even after knowing more, then I'm sold.
Hey, I know McMillan has been recommended here several times, and so I'm wondering if I should get his book. I need to understand more what...
no... I just do this regularly on a friday or saturday night... =)
ohhh i see, that's funny. you know, that's one of the things missing from options literature... I read an entire (beginners) book, and I...
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Thanks so much gentlemen, you've saved me from making a mistake. The underlying made a big move today (+12.5%), which i would have paid...
Morning, I'm long an ATM September call, and I'm thinking of selling an ATM Jul Call. If this expires in the money, (which I think it...
thanks again, i'm showing my noobness... i guess it's a good thing I ask before I trade! the page I read was way off then......
I'm looking at the iron butterfly, and pricing vs. the butterfly, and something is telling me the iron is too good to be true. Aside from lower...
+1 this is still really surprising to me
okay thanks guys... appreciate the feedback.
I'm sure this is in some book somewhere or on the internet but... I was playing around in TOS, and thought about the collar discussion....
^ i'm gonna go with yes. "i think ABC will rise" -> long call, bull call spread, bull put spread, etc. "I think ABC will fall" --> long put,...
spin, if that's true, some people need to spend less time f*kn around on a message board and more time learning to trade. how do people that...
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