Recent content by Greenfuji

Being able to view specific date ranges of history. Having to view all history to the current date is annoying and doesnt allow for more detailed review of the timeframe.

To clarify I am talking about index options. I trade the European markets, mainly the FTSE. What I mean by exchange value is the strike price the option settles at after market close.

I trade with IB and I write options. Occassionally I get a margin violation which I try to correct by buying the positions back. Sometimes the positions are grossly overpriced, i.e. the exchange values the option at 2 points but the offer is 50 points, and my offer is not executed. When IB's...

I just want to emphasise the need the software is an accounting package, hence it not only records are trades and provides a profit loss summary but manages assets and expenditure. Handles depreciation and possibly even payrole. I found MYOB would have been nice if it didnt require the need...

Does anyone know of a good accounting package for traders? Something that can handle multiple currencies, enters trades in a sensible fashion and does all the other usual acounting stuff. The problem I have found with some is that they are not suited to traders. They require vendors, and...

joeyata1, do you find the margin requirements imposed by IB on your naked option sales to be accurate? I too am disappointed how margin is tied up on the day of expiry of the options. Just last month I got a margin call on the day of expiry for my options, all of which expired OTM.

I find the amount shown by Check Margin is not accurate at all. In you account page take a look at your excess liquidity after you place a trade and use that as an indicator. It is more accurate but still nothing to rely on.

For someone using IB as their broker and their own charting package, what are the ticker codes needed to create the same setup used in this system? I only trade the DAX, HSI and FTSE100 and have no idea where to start for US markets.

Perhaps consider the west coast of Australia. Perth is much cheaper than the east coast for living but will conceade less job opportunities. Not sure on prop firms or arcades in this city. Very good location for trading Asian, European and openning US markets. Weather is also excellent.

It looks like IB are the only way to go for low volume traders. They offer trading on all Eurex markets, specificly for me, options on the DAX. It is all done through their TWS platform which has no cost. Brokerage is cheap at 2 euro per leg, coming from 14 thats a huge saving. The cost per...

I saw a recent reply on another thread that 14 Euro is too much per leg. I pay 13.2 Euro per leg currently. Searching this forum and browsing the net i have found a few brokers which offer substancially reduced brokerage rates. The ones I have found are Interrative Brokers, Velocity Futures...

Doing some searching on Digital/ Binary Options and the many other names they go by, results in finding a lot of option pricing theories. The Black-Scholes being the most popular method used or theory based upon. What I would like to determine is the probability the option will expire...