Recent content by Bben1006

There are a number of sites/services that I think it would be much better to have their free ‘newsletters’ – especially since I never saw any evidence of their ‘spamming’. The only reason I mention them is to give the novice here the sense of what people might be looking at when they...

What I really like is someone--entirely new to ET, with only two posts, posing a very selective question.. Never mind all the other important questions that could be asked. For example—does anyone here has experiences with common trolls?

Well, in such a case (a non-IRA account), you should think about changing your broker, to a firm that is more trader-friendly. For example, ToS, (ThinkorSwim.com) will not impose such silly restrictions.

Would you rather be naked?

Thais is exactly the reason and point of my question. Hopefully some IB user here will oblige and will check on this—any example of a brokenwing BF/Condor will do.

Yes MTE, Reg-T, and I agree--But still, one would also think that it is highly unlikely that TOS would require anything else, but until a month ago, their required margin on a BWB (regardless of the underlying type) was only the max-risk. This is why I wanted to compare notes with those who use IB.

On the TOS platform I can price the RUT Sep call BWB 700/710/730 at $1.50 cr. (RUT 665.22, IV 32), and the required TOS margin is $850+$1,000=$1,850 (presumably—per FINRA). I wanted to compare this to the margin required by IB — but their customer service was not too helpful. Could anybody...

ivolatiity.com has some RT scanners

From ivolatility.com "Alpha - Alpha is a ratio of Gamma over Theta. Thus Alpha indicates the relative value of owning gamma relative to the current level of theta. Alpha has been described as a "bang for your buck" measure. It is a measure that allows for comparison of several different...

That was the point that was made...

Try Kai's software (in excel) --and up to 40 legs --very inexpensive! http://www.kaininito.com/options/

Thanks-- I thin this will work ~B

Using the fImport library in R, I can fetch any ticker data from yahoo--for example: : library("fImport") tiker<-"IWM" xx<-yahooSeries(tiker, nDaysBack=350) but is there a way to fetch in R the for option collage of that ticker –even only for the current day qoute? If not, I will...