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I sell and buy future option.

and future option? Thank you in advance.

I transfer my account out of InteractiveBrokers. I know Tradestation need to open outside custodian account to trade. any other low cost brokers offer IRA account to trade emini future option?

The question is how much puts do you buy? if you buy large amount to fully cover your long stock positions and you need to pay premium all the time, the premium will eat up all your profit. another question is what happen if market down slowly for long time but not enough make put pay out?

possible suggestion 1: close all positions. why? possible suggestion 2: wait for market down and then close it. why? what is the risk? other suggestions ? and what is the reason behind the suggestion? My current plan is:sell ES put against these 38 ES until all positions are assigned/covered...

on 20140630 stress test exposure calculation. why include Es OPTION 20140630 positions, which is already expired on 20140630 1pm pacific time? the position are already expired, why still calculated?

1)Is there any evidence to show any index has ever be up 30% in one day? if not, why it is used in calculation of exposure fee? 2) because all stock exchange have trading brakes, the chance of 30% down is almost impossible. 3) IB just use this execuse to milk more fee from traders...

ES March settlement price is 1893.30. http://www.cmegroup.com/CmeWeb/html.wrap/wrappedpages/clearing/contracts/CurrentCashSettles.htm?h=2 http://www.cmegroup.com/wrappedpages/clearing/contracts/201403exp.htm But sp 500 spot open is 1874.53 (1893.3-1874.53=~20)and high is...

1) ECB can(?) print unlimited paper money to buy euro bonds which may solve the problems(?). 2) German does not want to do it NOW becasue of moral hazard(needs to strengthen fiscal disipline for warefare nations) and low euro is good for export 3) probably that is why vix is NOT LOWER...

Here are two ES 1 minutes charts from two IB account, one is individual account and the other is FA account. Pink line is midpoint and blue line is trade. As marked by volumn area, these two accounts produce different data feed and charts. One of them is delayed or error. IB, it is easy to...