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When he says price is moving up/down 5%, I think he's referring to some unspecific option. Probably flashing from 1.00 to 1.05 while some server somewhere resets. Or, alternatively, the trojan horse known as TWS installed on his machine is using the webcam to monitor his eye movements, and...

I think it's obvious EliteTrader is now hiring people to entertain us. I say it's working.

Alright I gotta say it... I don't usually go for marketing pitches, but that's pretty impressive. It'd be nice to see similar functionality implemented for commodity options, by the way. But maybe with a lot of that action still in the pits, you can't really pick up comparable details from...

Anyone used this tool? Just curious what its capabilities are. http://www.optionscity.com/metro.html

Hi, What exchanges/instruments do you cover? Just equities, or commodities as well?

Does not compute. You can not buy calls that are $30 ITM for $10.

Don't buy the front month contract... Not that it would have made a real difference. You couldve bought the Dec contract back in Feb, and you would probably seen the same P&L you received from rolling.

Hi guys, Any insight on if/when CBOE will introduce OVX futures/options, just as it has with VIX? Thanks.

I know it, I know it. But I'm trading a multi-day hedging strategy, so gotta show up for work tomorrow to. Well, not me, but the system running the strategy. No eggnog for the server!

Hi, Can someone explain to me what the CMEGroup's Thanksgiving hours actually means: http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/holiday-calendar/files/2009-thanksgiving.pdf It shows Globex opening up for trading at 6:00 PM (EST) today, "for trade date Friday". Does this mean...

I agree. He had me going until this post.

I really don't have any inside knowledge. It's just an educated guess. My technical background in computer science touches on pattern recognition, and to a lesser degree natural language processing. I think the above is the only reasonable explanation I can come up with, for how natural...

Uhm, I don't know how to make my point any more clearly... other than just repeating the sentence, I guess: "Their language/speech processing experts are using Markov chains to probabilistically match the current price action to some previously existing pattern they've identified." See...

I have an arbitrage strategy, and I just don't want to share my positions/trading with daily transparency. I don't mind talking in rough terms at the end of the month, but not daily.

Does notional funding for CPOs exist? I'm thinking the answer is "no". So, any industry-standard solutions on how investors can choose their preferred level of leverage?

I'm reasonably sure these are completely different uses of pattern recognition technology. FISIG has a "web crawler", which they claim can be used to identify information that shows trends in the greater economy (looking at shopping sites/discussion sites)... useful for some sort of...

Hi, Any recommendations on a fund administrator + startup law firm? I know there's 1000 choices out there, and I'm not even sure where to start discriminating between them. I'm not especially price sensitive. $5k, $25k, $50k... I can pay whatever fair market rates are, don't need a...

They mean selling the index future. Symbol YM traded at the CME, for example. Or one of the ETFs, I guess. But it sounds like you don't really want that. Buying an option limits your potential losses (to the amount you pay), whereas selling the future doesn't.

On average, it's about 40%. Max goes up to 55%. My target MER will be 20%.

Hi, Sounds like it's all cleared up. Just to reiterate: Dec options absolutely expire into Dec futures, and Jan options absolutely expire into Jan futures.