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Anybody know how the index options like SPX, NDX, and RUT are going to be settled next Friday March 21st. Markets are closed so are they going to use the closing prices of Thursday for the cash settlement? Thanks

Well seeing as how a benadryl knocks me on my butt I dont think I can handle percocet...

True maybe I'll see what the morning looks like. I'm leaving at 10 so may just call it a day after that. Not sure if my head can handle the quick calculations I may need to make!

Damn figures that we might be heading into a whale of a volatile day tomorrow and I've got a surgery in the morning. I'll be taking medication like percoset or something so should I even try to trade afterwards? I've never taken the stuff before and have heard it makes you "zombified" so not...

Up 24% so far. I only trade index options and it's been pretty easy to make money using combinations of puts and calls....seeing as how the market has been sideways since hitting the lows....

No data here again, this is one of the MOST frustrating days I've had with IB. I don't think I've had a solid 45 minutes without getting some kind of quote outage since this problem began in the morning.....and now its down during the most profitable time of the day for me.....great...

Yup same here. my usfuture and usfarm say connected but usbond is disconnected.....yet I have no quotes and now stress because I filled an order about 2 mins before it went down...

Figures, I'd just gotten filled on an order I was trying to scalp and now have no data.....oh joy thanks for the added grey hair now!

My TWS screen just went blank and is showing no quotes for spreads. Just a bunch of question marks on my screen. Anyone else seeing this?

Another question regarding tax stuff since it's taxtime. If I trade just indexes like RUT which are 1256 contracts, do I need to be vary of the wash sale.....ie if I trade vertical spreads every month does that mean it's a wash sale on the loss of one of the option contracts in the spread? Or...

No the phone thing seems to take forever. I've been lucky so far that I haven't gotten caught in a situation where this type of outage has cost me money......some of IBs price quotes...that's a different story.

Okay I'm back in now. Might have just gone down for 5 minutes or something. You should be able to get in now...

Just tried logging into IB and I"m not getting to the passcode screen to login. Anyone else having this problem right now?

Yeah I've really found no use for paying margin interest to my broker since I've had no issue raising a decent chunk of capital. I've got about 7 or 8 credit cards now and pretty much at any given time at least one is offering 0% for 12 months so I can just simply move the debt from one to the...

I took all this out back in 2003 when fed rate was really low and it seemed like I was getting a ton of these offers. I opened up an american express, visa, a couple mastercards. It was AWESOME. It was 3.99 fixed until the balance is paid off, there was a 1 time 3% fee but it was capped at...

I did something similar to start my trading account initially except instead of just getting a loan I used those credit card convenience check thingies. I started several years ago and had been playing around with simple debit and credit index spread strategies. After I traded them for about 6...

I'd imagine most baby boomers should have a portfolio that is less than 35% stock anyway. I always thought the idea was to put 1% in cash/bonds for every year of age so I'd think a baby boomer at age 65 would be in 65% cash/bonds anyway so this drop in the market shouldn't hurt horribly. Even...

Another question along similar lines. I took out cash using one of those convenience check things from Washington Mutual so if WAMU was to go under then what happens to the balance I owe on those checks? Does WAMU force me to pay it all at once in order to try and payback losses or does the...

oh joy TWS spewing out garbage quotes again. Looks like the b/a is flipped on some indexes but it normal on some strikes for the same index. It's hard enough trying to out trade professionals but I guess now there's a new challenge of trading blind not knowing which bids are real and which are...

That's the kicker to the whole thing was when I realized that the ask price was not being updated at all I called them on the phone. I talked to the guy in the afternoon and told him hey your system is showing an ask of 1.90 and I'm putting a bid for 2.30 to take a loss and nothing is...