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    How do you practically trade box spreads?

    If their cost of financing is higher than 4percent if they can earn more than 4percent on that capital.
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    How do you practically trade box spreads?

    you’ll trade 10 cents off of mid on the box. Posted markets in SPX are very wide but it’s trades almost choice.
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    Stay away from Traders Accounting in Surprise AZ

    That's the only review on the BBB.
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    Stay away from Traders Accounting in Surprise AZ

    If this is your post, then you come across as being whiny and unprofessional. https://www.bbb.org/us/az/surprise/profile/accounting/traders-accounting-1126-2000201 It also has nothing to do with what you said in the original post of this thread. Further, her response is pretty professional...
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    Stay away from Traders Accounting in Surprise AZ

    That should bother you. A proper professional services firm shouldn't be soliciting you. That might even violate the standards of the CPA.
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    The IV risk with short strangles

    In my 20 years I have only had that happen to me twice. 5 cent options become worth 10 dollars. I did a study, if I closed out every 5 cent option I was short how much would I leave on the table vs saving that 10 dollars. The calculation yielded that I could afford 1 of those blowups every year.
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    Stay away from Traders Accounting in Surprise AZ

    I have an accounting firm that does my business which also does my personal. maverick trading (whose an affiliate on their site)
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    Stay away from Traders Accounting in Surprise AZ

    I would see as red flags any firm that doesn’t share who their CPA’s are. You should be hiring a specific guy with a specific set of credentials and experience. I would be wary of an accounting firm that is an affiliate of a prop firm (who btw - has fake testimonials on their page). Further...
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    Elite Trader Member Featured in Forbes Magazine

    I would think pretty well. There are tons of funds moving to Miami. If he isn’t do well, it would be like being long real estate in NY and declaring bankruptcy multiple times.
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    Elite Trader Member Featured in Forbes Magazine

    I heard that some eter called in a bomb threat at one of his publicized events for his hedge fund association.
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    Excel formula question.

    I would do this in vba. The calculations will be tedious with worksheet functions as each function will be a recursion of an previous on. it’s exactly the problem I had in college.
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    Simple question about options

    the world uses black scholes (or variations) to value options. Read up on it and you will understand your questions.
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    Simple question about options

    whats this idiom? I’ve never heard it but I like it.
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    Help! Question About Home Office For Securities Trading LLC

    Home office deductions are a lightning Rod.
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    Excel formula question.

    i think he’s trying to determine the peaks and troughs in a stock price sequence.
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    Excel formula question.

    i think I actually had this question on my final exam for my algorithms class in college. Worksheet formulas can work if have them calculating right to left to create a dynamic programming answer. This is tricky as your data set is expanding but you need to see the latest point to know if you...
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    Simple question about options

    supply and demand. everything else is an attempt to quantify/explain that supply/demand or to see if that supply/demand is mispricing the option.
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    Is the answer right now to be.... selling puts???

    Two differences between trading spreads and trading outright options: 1. You trade more spreads to make the same time value as outrights - then you are not as protected because you have leverage. 2. You trade the same amount of spreads as you would naked (you are unlevered). Overtime how much...
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    Is the answer right now to be.... selling puts???

    spreads are no different. WRT to picking up pennies in front of a steam roller unless you believe skew is statistically underpriced.
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