Recent content by adamchicago

Ok, heres my advice, but a little background first. I too was in a similar position last year (although I knew I didn't want to do medicine), I went to an excellent prep school in pennsylvania, and come spring I had acceptance letters to some excellent schools. My father is a doctor, an...

Ok, so I have an account at optionsXpress with a trading level of 2 (means I can buy contracts/write covered contracts) can I enter into a straddle for example if I enter each leg seperately? (not using their spread trading) or am I not allowed to enter it at all? I called customer service and...