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Not true. You don't have to pay capital gain, but you still have to pay dividend tax.

The minimum commission for each trade is $1.00. If you trade only 1 contract, they will charge you $1 for each trade. BTW, if you open a US account, the commission charge for each contract is 0.70 with the minium charge of $1.00. [edit] there is a min monthly charge of $10 if the total...

Selling naked put is very risky. To reduce the risk or to make the risk reward ratio attractive, I will cut loss when the premium doubles (i.e. to make the risk:reward ratio = 1). Of course, it depends on your market outlook, and no. of days till expiration.

Why do you want to open another ira future account? Anything bad about ib?

IB commission fee for US stock options is USD 0.75 per contract. http://www.interactivebrokers.ca/en/accounts/fees/commissionStockIndexOptions.php?ib_entity=ca

When you get a massive selloff in HK, the US market usually don't follow the HK market. When US market sells off, usually the HK market will follow (at least at open).

With the advantage of coming here from HK and reading HK newspapers, I know QDII better than Wikipedia. There are a lot of qualified QDII already. HK stock market went up from August because of a scheme that will allow chinese residents investing in HK stocks by themselves. QDII are...

It is not QDII. QDII is there already. They delay the self-direct investment into HK stocks.

I used to work for GS, and they strongly discouraged active trading. No outside accounts with other brokerage firms. They talked to me several times because I traded options.

If the firm is a broker/dealer, you are allowed to trade via them. Sometimes, they have a list of stocks that you can't trade.

How did you know IB change the span margin requirement? The span margin requirement seems to be same for me. The margin req will increase when the spot moves against you, and when IV goes up. One question for pm and span. When you change margin to pm, does it apply to future options too...

Why don't you buy calendar to avoid theta loss?

+ve = positive. If you have an option model software, you want to construct a portfolio with positive gamma. That was what I meant.

Best to do a +ve gamma play, not a vega play. The risk is just one day theta risk.

Any comments on using ratio spread or short ratio time spread for earning plays?

Anyone wants to trade SOHU today? Any idea?

What happened to BIDU?

BIDU reported, and it dropped to 300 and now trading at about 322.

what was the estimate?

Lets see if this strategy works with a big drop in spot.