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Would TOS be your recommendation for portfolio margin trading of options?

How does IB handle debit and / or credit spreads that are in the money at expiration?

OptionsHouse and E Option only charge $.10 per contract.

If they do that it would be fantastic. I was one of the very early traders at Options Xpress and even helped them develop some of their tools such as their Option Pricer. I they would do flat price it would be a home run.

Options Xpress is grossly overpriced in terms of commissions.

Who are you and what is your basis for that question?

There is also some form of concnetrated position kicker. Since I typically deal in large numbes of contract in a relatively small number of issues, perhaps a dozen or so, it seems like the concentration rules of portfolio margin would kick in.

Do you trade in uncovered option securities? Also, these accounts are covered by Reg-T margin not portfolio margin.

Several of the low cost option brokers that I use, E-Option and Optionshouse have efeectively increased their margin requirements for uncovered options by 50% over the last several months. They both indicated this was imposed on them by Pension Financial, who they use to clear. What other...

With a large firm: Can you obtain greater leverage than a retail trader? Are you trading with their or your money? How much haircut does the firm take?

Given this limited information, let us make some assumptions, 1) One needs $100,000 yearly in today's dollars for living expenses 2) A conservative investment with very limited principal risk can yield about 4 percent 3) One starts with $5,000 working capital / principal Thus, you would...

Perhaps another way to ask the question is : "What rate of return are option traders able to generate repeatedly over a long period of time?" This tells you how much you are able to compound your initial capital over time.

What is your reading of the order of the increased margin calculation. Will they first increase the margin (by 2 or 3) and then back off the Out of the Money amount and still possibly produce 15 or 20% min requirement for deep OTM options. Or back off the OTM amount and then double or triple...

With the new FINRA margin regulations to be enacted on Dec 1. http://www.finra.org/web/groups/industry/@ip/@reg/@notice/documents/notices/p119906.pdf How does the out of the money amount for short options impact the margin requirement?

How do brokers charge the regulatory fee on option transactions? Based on the option proceeds from a sale or the price of the underlying?

Dear Customer, Your OptionsHouse account currently maintains ETF positions that will no longer be marginable at OptionsHouse; this is due to a margin policy change at our clearing firm, Penson Financial Services, Inc. Because of this policy change, you are required to take the following...

Optionshouse seems to change Margin requirements on the fly frequently , such as on VIX options. The most recent: Dear Customer, Effective February 25, 2009, you will no longer be allowed to initiate trades in Three Times (3X) Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds on margin. Additionally...

Can someone point me to a website that shows the changes in margin treatment that will occur in April 2007? Thanks in Advance Dave

A good discussion of Delta Neutral trading can be found in a classic but dated text: Natenberg "Option Pricing and Volatility"

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