While I am here, anyone get their cash yet from this very nice odd lot tender? I also wonder why there is no special sits forum on here, which...
At IB if I am long ABC at 100, write a call at 100 and buy a put at 95, my (portfolio) margin is, like 10 percent of the stock. At one or two...
If you don't have any risk, (except for, perhaps, slippage or execution risk -- fat finger mishaps), how do you position size conversions and...
Had a rep at Merrill who did not know the difference between portfolio margin and Reg-T. IB is a thread jungle online and impossible to reach by...
Any reason to use one over the other or even another when scanning by strategy?
Ok, I'm using IB, looking over my trades for the years, and scratching my head over the accounting for a small May trade: I bought AUD/NZD for...
Ok, I am long 1660 gamma on three short puts, currently OTM. What does my gamma mean or tell me about this position? (Try to hold back the jokes,...
Production good, weather warm. Thinking of shorting here but afraid I have missed the move lower and will get whipsawed. Thoughts?
Any brokers reduce margin (from a long stock and a short stock) on pair trades? What about on dual-class share arbitrages?
How would I go about doing a pair trade with stocks for a set price? Let's say I was long GOOG at 100 and short GOOGL at 100.50 and I want to sell...
Former publisher writer here, from the analog era, and I was just wondering if there were any in or under served areas of the trading world that...
Something like a kindle screen would be great. Anyone make a laptop or monitor like this?
Ok, I'm not a professional; I run a couple million of family money at IB, and that's it. But recently two friends from a foreign country...
Seems easy enough to collect and compute on Excel. (Sole prop TTS trading futures, FX, equities, options running 3 accounts totalling about 500K.)
Ok, I'm not in their typical demographic (by age or assets), but I was trying to find a downside in their 3% matching offer for Roth IRAs. Can I...
If so, how is the best way, brokers, etc? Use ETC? I think IB offers physical gold addition to GC. Just doing some noobie research. Thanks.
When I tried checking the outside of RTH button after I hit the little clock it would not take. Was trading NQ. CME.
Occasionally, I do a class-share arb, and I leg in and out of each side. Is there a broker, who treats this like a spread trade, and I can like...
Any reason why the deltas are so high on way OTM calls? I mean like 0.07 for a 40 strike with a short time to go? Is the back of the envelope use...
What non-equity ETFs have options on them that unequivocally, in the eyes if the IRS, qualify for Sec. 1256 treatment. Anyone have a list?
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