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Thank you guys for explanations.

Who are MMs?

If you would like to short GTLS for tomorrow for the same profit of 2%, would you prefer shorting the stock or buying its PUTs? It looks like the spread in options is huge.

What about liquidity? Will liquidity be an issue if I want to trade options of stocks like TMV, CHKP,DOX…?

You mean that for volatile stocks is better to short the stock itself but less volatile using options is better? In the above example you mean that BIDU stock would reach the 2% profit and you would closed the position, but the option on BIDU would not reach that 2% profit (or the $200...

Let's say you want to short a stock XYZ for $10,000 tomorrow morning and you want to get the opening price. The day after tomorrow you want to cover your position with limit order of 2% profit to make $200. If you want to follow this strategy, is it better to make an actual short on the...

Try to reinvest only part of the profit. This way volatility will go down=risks go down.

Sharp ratio does not favor volatility. It means that your system experiences greater volatility on the "right" side of the equity. Namely, at the beginning volatility was lower but through the time it grown up. When you do not reinvest while the equity still goes up, the volatility automatically...

In addition to IB, which brokerage is good for shorting penny stocks? Thank you.

In that case, is there any way not to pay taxes but reinvest profits and pay taxes only when the owners get the money?

In that case it is a huge benefit!

Does it mean that by deferring the profit to the later date and instead of paying taxes you may reinvest that portion and make more profit, assuming you goanna make money trading the "tax portion money"?

Why would it decrease personal income?

Has anybody tried Stop Market orders with Fidelity? If you have, you would see how bad they are!

I am asking this question because of the Merrill Lynch easy to borrow list. I heard that it is very good one.

What are the direct access US stock brokers that clear through Merrill Lynch? Thank you

It worked perfectly with basket trader. Thank you guys.

Pretty strange that nobody does that.

Hello, Does anybody know if it is possible to load into Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation orders from an Excel file? For example if I have 50 orders arranged in the excel, it would be very easy and useful to load the file and after that submit all of them at the same time without...