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Thanks for all the responses! I am going to open an account with FXSol on Monday, I'm pleased to hear all the good things and am glad they stack up. I believe they only require a $250 min deposit. Absolutely! I also just opened an account at Oanda and I've had 4 Tradestation accounts for...

I was reading their website, and I like the fact that you can alter your leverage all the way up to 400:1 and they have a Flexi contract so you could trade only 1,000 units if you want to. 1,000 units at 400:1 is only $2.50 margin per lot, I could live with that. Anyway just want to know if...

just thought I'd include this for anyone interested, I emailed forexprosignals This was their response

Exellent Point! No I am not sure that they have been around since 03. I guess it could be a scam. But I also wondered if anyone had first hand experience with them. I suppose I'll go with another company because that looks kind of suspicious. thanks murfy

Great Thread, If you haden't started it, I would have. Anyone know anything about this company? http://www.forexprosignals.com/ they post great results and have been around since 2003. I was thinking about trying it but I thought I'd check here with all of you first. I am currently...

Ah! I hope so because as it is, to put on a four leg spread is quite a pain in the ars! I've always read that if you are legging into a spread that the market maker should give you a better price if you put in all orders at once as a spread position than if you try to do one leg at a time...

ok here's the deal for those who want to know. I just got off the phone with a guy from the CME and he told me that their real time quote service for pit options is simply the last trade that occurred. They do not give real time bid/ask or market depth since they would have to have someone...

Is there a service that offers constantly updated as close to real time as possible Pit quotes for futures and futures options in particular? As it is now, I have to call my broker, then they call the floor then call me back in 10 minutes with a bid/ask quote, and by then the price may have...

Silver Falls Bank Silverton (SVFL) 5% stock dividend Record Date - 2/28/05 Pay Date - 3/28/05 X Date - 4/22/05 There are also a few stocks that go up on ex-day like NREB X Date - 4/28/05 4/27/05 close - 24.9 4/28/05 open - 26.50 close - 26.00 dividend: 5% stk this one seemed to go up...

I snuck this into another post but it really deserves its own discussion. If a stock offers a stock dividend, as in dividend reinvestment, what are the terms of the dividend? About half the time I have seen stock dividends with the record date set several weeks before the pay date, and the...

You’d think it would work over the long term because of those few that don’t drop on ex-day like they should. Interesting….You just saved me a lot of time and effort! Much appreciated.:D

Sorry about that, you’re right, GM did open down, but there are many others that didn’t. I’m not saying that it never happens, but I couldn’t understand why the market was behaving inefficiently. It sure is! But the thing is, now that you’re short you have to pay the dividend...

One more quick question: If you own a stock that is paying a dividend as stock reinvestment, in other words, you receive the dividend in the form of stock, would you receive those additional shares on ex-dividend day, or on the pay date? If you don't receive them until the pay date, what...

GM, and CVX are two that jump into my head, but if you want more I could give you 20 others. ok, good point..., so basically the laws of theoretical behavior bow to supply and demand. I only mentioned it because you would imagine that the stock would drop to take the arbitrage opportunity...

On the ex date the stock should theoretically drop from the previous day's close by the amount of the dividend it's about to pay. I've analyzed many stocks on and around their ex date and at least half the time, they don't go down at all. Is there any reason or explanation for this? I realize...

I heard order size is also a big factor in getting fills. Maybe less pertinant for the SPX but as it relates to other futures options I believe it's important. Could you confirm this? Do you have an easier time getting fills for, say, 10 contracts than you would for 1 or 2?

Systematic Options Writing Example: DIA For this example the DJIA ETF Diamonds Trust Series will be used (DIA) for illustrative purposes. This example is done in a worst case scenario purposefully to demonstrate the versatility of this strategy. This can be a bullish or bearish strategy...

It is true that the values given for premiums in this strategy are a bit unrealistic and like I said, I didn’t write this but why do you say it is theoretically wrong? I have written my own real world example of a trade I’m in right now. Initially I wrote it as instructions but I have...

Anyone have any links or resources about systematic options writing and trading strategies. They would be dynamic and involve reactions to directional moves in the underlying with appropiriote action in options to offset losses or hold onto gains. Here would be an axample of what I'm talking...