Recent content by stg

Glad I'm not alone. I routinely monitor ET to keep up on things and I rarely see a posting from options12 that isn't critical of IB. I can't imagine anyone having that much free time or incentive to act this way unless they are a competitor, which is what I've concluded. The kicker was a recent...

An options market maker typically maintains both synthetically long (long call/short put) and short (short call/long put) positions at any one time as they have an affirmative obligation to both buy and sell at their posted quotes, but in the aggregate are either net long delta or net short...

An options market maker typically maintains both synthetically long (long call/short put) and short (short call/long put) positions at any one time as they have an affirmative obligation to both buy and sell at their posted quotes, but in the aggregate are either net long delta or net short...

As a recent IB customer, I've been following this thread with some interest and would note the following: - I suspect that the IB posters are under the impression that you Jayre have a basic understanding of regulations involving the separation between the proprietary trading and brokerage...