Recent content by luh3417

IMHO my goal is to get a position that exactly reflects my speculation on the market or prediction of future events. And, no more, as well as no less. IMHO the downside to options is they expire. And, IMHO, the market is in denial (not wrong, its never wrong, just in denial) and will resist...

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/eligibleProducts.php lists for example IDEM exchange trades FTMIB MFIB MINI MIB30 (Italy) MEFF exchange trades IBX IBEX35 index (Spain) MONEP exchange trades FCE (CAC 40) (France) I may end up trading the index future, not the options. Still...

Thanks guys. Yeah I am thinking Italy or Japan might be a bit further out, but just as inevitable as Spain. Can we think of more specific contracts, as well as options strategies. Eurex has futures and options on EURO STOXX 50®. As far as liquid contracts go, Nikkei 225, Topix, IBEX, CAC...

What are some good options to speculate on global economic meltdown? What countries are most vulnerable? And then within that, what e.g. index options are fairly liquid. And then within that, what particular strategy, say a short bear ratio spread. For example, Spain might be about ripe...

I don't have a Reuters feed in my den, but AAPL was off to the races a whole trading day before the CSCO/AAPL story broke. And AAPL was already up several points before the analyst upgrades came out as far as I could see A LOT of people got some kind of good news long before I did. I already...

That was Tuesday Check out what happened on Wednesday! AAPL up 3.84%, huge volume. And no explanation. Until... after market hours, when it hit the newswire that Apple and Cisco had agreed to a compromise on the iPhone trademark. So somebody knew something alright, judging from the massive...

XEO is the European expiration version of OEX. SPX has XSP, but XSP is not European expiration, its mini. Is XEO the only European style broad based index options?

That is a pretty good explanation, but just to muddy the water, let's say you buy (long) a DJIA index future, and I go out and buy (long) the (properly weighted) actual basket of 30 underlying stocks. On the futures expiration date, I have more money than you, because I collect any dividends...

guy2 said "GIVE YOU the value". whitster said "TRACK the value". If we really want to argue about this, they need to use more specific verbs and provide examples. Of course for the DOW or S&P indices, they don't actually go out and buy the stock; for the CME Housing Futures nobody actually...

For a while now, Interactive Brokers lets you trade the CME housing derivatives. The 'ticker' symbols are in here http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/exchanges.php?exch=globex&showcategories=&ib_entity=llc Anyone know where I can get graphs of these CME housing derivatives, price...

I think they just mean two or more sales ever historically. So I don't see a lag here. These guys have probably got more statistics and econometrics background than we do. They've been thinking about this for years. Why would it be in their interest to create a lame index?

Are you guys on the long or short side of those futures? Anyone trade the options-on-futures? I read that these contracts are not very liquid.

As should be evident, I have been doing my homework and reading books on options, and I have been seeking a mentor. As part of this process I asked some very reasonable, detailled questions about how the options market works, and tried to spice them up by pointing out the difficult conclusions...

Super excellent post with killer value. Keep it up luh3417! Your post is so insightful that everyone should quote it in full with every reply. I submit that the discerning reader of this thread will notice that very few of the technical issues I have raised were addressed at all. 75% of the...