Congrats, that's a hell of an accomplishment. I can't imagine the site being against you mentioning it, you're an asset to the site and they...
weird story. almost sounds like they processed the assignments backwards and realized their mistake and shut off accounts so people didn't make...
Sounds like a good idea. I wouldn't say it's overprotective since its not required to set that from the sound of things. Probably helps people...
quarterlys http://www.cboe.com/micro/quarterly/introduction.aspx weeklys (doesn't look like ETF's though)...
Can be helpful to know the name of the strategy if checking to see what the margin requirements are.
That sounds like an IB policy since they're giving you the choice of whether or not you really want to place the order. It's in their best...
Do you really believe that $2 above the ASK should be considered a "marketable limit order" ? I hope you never make a typo when placing a trade....
It's really not that different than somebody that places a buy stop below the BID or sell stop above the ASK (reverse this for equity orders), do...
Does the order cross the NBBO? Did you view the link to the CHX site? See the error message in the FIX guide? They put that information out...
sure he can. If the ASK was 14, and he submitted a buy order @ 16(which would get displayed as the BID) that would cross the market by making it...
happens all the time with online trading. Chalk it up to a learning experience. the market maker could really have rejected the order though...
the multiplier does not change, just the deliverable does. So if you buy those puts and exercise you receive $250 but only deliver out 5 shares....
yeah, just depends on the resulting position I would think. I would think if it's just going to be a margin call then they'd let it go and only...
given that they're called options house I wouldn't expect them to be the best place in the world for mutual fund trades. did they give you the...
basically if you don't have the funds on hand to handle the assignment or exercise then you should be closing your position prior to the close.
Ameritrade is not the only firm that does this. Firms do it to protect themselves and a lot of the time it protects client's that don't really...
yep, even though some of the underlyings only go til 4.
margin is required to trade American style spreads. this is covered in FINRA rule 2520
CBOE site has a margin calculator that you may find useful. Fill in your info(prices, strategy, etc) and it will tell you what the requirement is
besides a complete collapse in the underlying the only chance of you not get assigned is if someone long those calls chooses not to exercise,...
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