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Can you trade options on OVX? I read an article from 2012 stating "OVX Index security futures will begin trading on CFE on Monday 26 March, and options on the OVX Index will begin trading on CBOE on Tuesday 10 April, according to a statement by CBOE Holdings." I can't find these options...

Thank you for your replies drmark27 and ETJ. Maybe a better question is more simple. Why have these indexes if you can't trade them more directly? I can trade the VIX somewhat via options and through some uniquely designed ETFs but as far as I know I think that's the only "ViX-like" product I...

Since the answer is almost assuredly no, is there anyway to replicate that if you believe VXAPL or VXAZN is going in one direction or another?

Yes Robert that clears a lot up for me. Thank you very much.

I'm not sure this is in the right forum but I believe it's at least tangentially related. I'm looking at JUN 21 TSLA puts at a strike of 95. There was volume today of 574 and I can see on IB that the last trade was at 3:53 EDT for 100 contracts. However, the bid is blank. Why is that? And...

Thanks to all of you for your answers. You've been very helpful. What I'm trying to get a better grasp of is the mechanics of trading as opposed to any specific strategies, at least for the moment. Along that line, I'd like to follow up with a second question. There are JUN 14 TSLA Puts with a...

Tom, You've been extremely helpful. Can you go into what you mean by "requests get made?"

I'm not sure I explained this as well as I had intended. I was probably too specific. What I am trying to figure out is why certain strikes seem to be available in certain underlyings and not in others and even across the same underlying with different expiration dates. Is there not a market for...

Tom, Thank you for clarifying that for me. That helps.

I would like to buy deep ITM calls for AAPL about a month out (JUN 28 or JUL 5). Unfortunately, the lowest strike price available on IB is 130 and 125 respectively. If I go out to JUL 19, the lowest strike price drops to 80. I checked on Nasdaq's option site as well to confirm it wasn't an IB...