Hi, I tried this on the IB Simulated Account: CSCO Sold 1 May 27.50 Call Sold 1 May 25.00 Put Sold the spread for a net credit of 0.73....
If you have an IB account, sign up for a Simulated Account and put on that position to see what your margin would be. It's FREE. If you don't...
RedOption?? They are through ThinkorSwim.
I may wrong in this....but I'll take a shot. When you are BUYING an ATM Straddle, you are hoping for the underlying to make a big move, but not...
Can you give me an example? Let's for example ES is trading at 1452.75. I short the April 1440 Put @ 7.50. Where would I adjust?
https://us.etrade.com/e/t/welcome/accessus?gxml=hm_acu_findcenter.html&state=il Go here to see if you can find an office you can talk to...
Are you sure you can trade ES options after hours? I always see the b/a on some options at 1.50 / 10, or something like that. It always gets...
What if you did this on a futures (ES) or even on a SSF? Then would it be wise to buy the future and sell an ITM covered call against it?
But, aren't ITM CC's better for adjustments? If the underlying does go down, you can always take the profit on the calls and just sell another...
Is there any advantage to either one? They both provide the same risk profile and margin, right? The only reason I can think to a sell a ITM...
How did it go?
When they see on my resume that I have a Series 3, do you think they would pass on the application? Maybe I'm just being paraonoid.....lol.
Oh ok. That's what I looked at. So I'm assuming all positions will be cash settled as well then? Thanks for your help.
Do both the ES Futures Contract and the ES Options contract both expire at the same time? Let's say I'm short the ES Futures and Long a March...
Buy some puts, sell call spreads or naked calls(if you can handle the margin).
Has anyone dealt with Hold Brothers? I know there have been other threads about Hold Brothers, but they are very old, so I'm thinking some...
I didn't want to copy from Excel and paste it here and do all the formatting again, so I just attached it. Take a look at it and see if its...
What's the difference between the two if you would like to start one of them? To start a CTA there is a $750 registration fee. But for a CPO,...
Here is what I have, with smaller numbers. Please let me know if these calculations are right. Let's assume the account was opened in December...
Does anyone have experience with this firm? How is thier training program? Is it a paid training program? Thanks. Daytrader85
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