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I sometimes traded in a translucent windows screen on my desktop at work. I told co-workers that it's my screen saver:-)

Did you mean "affect"?

I tried to upgrade, but it didn't work.

Why not close the position or roll it over to next month?

That's why money management is so important that it would be total different mindset when the risk were tolerable within 1-2%! You would be able to ride it all the way to $1.1. I did my share of holding crazy-size position on QQQ calls and puts. Decipline is not an easy word to follow all the...

I called IB help on entering call spead in an IRA account. I was told the it could be done if the margin on the short leg was met. However, I got the error saying you can not have short position. Is spread possible at all in TWS IRA account? Thanks,

TWS does not show SMART as routing choice on SSF, my guess it's not available.

Contrary to what many think, the vast majority of options do not expire worthless. The facts are as follows: approximately 10% of options are exercised, from 55% to 60% of option positions are closed prior to expiration, and about 30% to 35% of options expire worthless. Note that 90% of options...

AMD is fine. Why waste $200 for P4?

Long options strategy (buy calls and puts) works if you know to how to manage the risks associated with volatility, spread, and time decays in addition to good timing:-).

Come on, if you are smart, you can code. Otherwise, you're not that smart:-) Coding is simple compared to other things.

Up 20% as of Friday.

It's a busy day!!!

Since you prefer Excel, you can use VBA as your programming language. You can declare a few large matrixes to hold the data read from a text file, then your Excel/VBA operates on the matrixes. This approach is similar to what you are doing with a spreadsheet but more efficiently.

What you need is to carve out the calculation and raw data into a separate program that does the number crunching and data storage, and use Excel as your main user interface.

If you play directional moves, you have to be precise in entry point with sound risk management. You really don't need a lot of liquility to play options. Of course, you can play netual strategies too.

If you use Trader.NET, dual processor definitely helps.

the answer is yes. the same series option chain is considered as the same underlying security.

You're right.

From IB Forum discussions and IB's email, it seems that SMART will be charging even more Cancellation Fee! All US exchanges now charge option order cancellation fees. In order to recapture this expense, IB will charge $1.20/cancelled option order for smart and direct routed option...