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When BBBY moved to OTC, its options became closing only for retail traders. You can't open new positions. MM's can open new positions to facilitate retail traders. This is typical for stock options after the stock has been delisted and moved to the OTC.

The AM options are monthly only , not weekly. These expire once a month. They trade on the regular session until 415pm et and continue to trade on the curb session until 5pm et Thursday. They will expire based on Friday mornings opening of the SPX stocks. The PM options can only be traded...

SPX options trade almost 24 hours a day. Most retail brokers don't offer access to this overnight session, with the exception of Interactive Brokers.

SPY options, along with some other ETF's/Index options will continue to trade until 415pm et

There is no pre market session for non futures options, with the exception of SPX/VIX. Trading starts at 930am et.

Shouldn't matter for a cash account. You should still be earning interest on the cash required to secure a put. When it is assigned, you now have an asset where you will be paying (or not receiving interest) You also were talking about spreads (which generally require a margin account) When...

What you say simply isn't true. Here are the risks of early assignment in option spreads, First, margin issues. An option spread will use much less margin vs if you are assigned on your short leg as you will then have a stock position. Depending on your capital, you will then have a margin...

Note that since the SPX is cash settled, you don't have to worry about assignment. So, you don't have to worry about them liquidating an expiring position early.

I'm currently seeing a market of 1.10/1.65 with a size of 15 on both sides. You will need to enter a small offer (1) to find the "real" bid. Now seeing a 1.30 bid, coming and going.

Thats exactly the point of my post. Many brokers are restricting put exercise unless you own the corresponding stock. The ones that are allowing it are requiring large margin for the resulting short stock. Even if you have the money to post the margin for the put exercise you may be paying...

Just seems like a great play to sell them. Even if something bizarre happens, I would think the stock would be halted and the 5 options would have to be manually exercised, which makes it an even better play to sell them.

March 5 puts in FRC expiring tomorrow are .20 bid. Stock currently 33. Not a recommendation, just an observation. This is over a 1,600 vol. Never seen this before.

Fortunately, I don't have a position. But many others will be screwed.

They can't sell their options as both the stock and options have halted trading. Thats the problem.

Both SIVB and SBNY have been halted. So, what happens if you have an options position, especially one the expires this Friday. Basically, is seems you are screwed. The OCC has put out a memo that options can still be exercised, but if you don't have the corresponding stock most brokers seem...

Dash Prime, Spread between debit and short stock should be much tighter here, depending on your account specifics. DASH Prime | Execution and Brokerage solutions for Professional Traders

Bob, I've always been a bit confused about this. My firm suggests that you can be on both sides of the market as a customer if your orders are resting on certain exchanges. I'm guessing these are ones that do not have customer priority. Also, I thought if your orders are on separate...

The SPX AM options expiring Jan 20th, will continue to trade until 415pm et on Jan 19th (not 4pm) in regular trading hours. They will also trade for another 45 minutes (from 415 to 5pm) in the curb session which IB allows access to. This is different from the PM SPXW expiring options which...

SPX are the monthly options. Although they stop trading Jan 19th, they expire based on Jan 20th opening of the SPX component stocks. These are AM expirations. SPXW are the weekly options. They will expire based on the afternoon closing price of the SPX component stocks on Jan 19th. These...

You can actually get depth of book through the CBOE BBO feed. It offers some interesting information as well such as expected opening price. For more information, go here and scroll down to US Options Market Data Products. Cboe Market Data Services Note that this isn't cheap and not really...