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Don't you think that selling out the long leg and leaving short leg open is lot riskier? My debit spread is like following FAZ MAY 10 CALL - LONG FAZ MAY 20 CALL - SHORT Max Risk / Max Reward: 1.40 / 8.60

I guess your suggestion will be IB. I'm working on it.

What kind of choices we have for fixed income at IB? Can I buy everything listed at following screener (including MUNIs)? http://screen.yahoo.com/bonds.html Please also suggest some reading for investing in bonds. Thanks,

What difference it makes if it is shareholder or taxpayer? They both are in same shoe with a little difference that taxpayers does not have option to opt-out. It is always people's money that they are abusing. - My 2 cents.

Friends, I did not put any stop in my debit-spread combo and my peak profit of about 100% is now in RED. Can someone please suggest a way to do risk-management in debit spreads? Perhaps STOP loss is the solution but I'm confused about the implementation part. My current broker (OH) let...

To my best knowledge, STOP or TRAILING STOP (or any advance order) stays with broker. Only market and limit order goes to exchange/ECN. I called the broker and support staff was unable to explain it. He put me on hold to investigate the issue but hung-up without saying anything. May be some...

Looks like this was exactly the case. Fill was 2.9 cents better than STOP. Thanks for the clarification. Everyday is a learning.

Yes, it was a odd lot (40 shares) and my fill was at 29.429 (2.9 cents better). May be their stop logic is using BID in place of expected LAST price. FYI. I know that odd lot are pretty much hated on ET but I trade with small $$$ lot size.

I also want to post the screenshot but then broker name will be revealed. Can I face a lawsuit for posting the transaction details? Anyway - just curious if something like this is common in brokerage industry. Someone please reply. Thanks,

My stop was 1 cent below day-low but still my broker filled the order :-( SRS stop @ 29.40 got executed at 4/21/2009 12:21:01 PM :confused: and day low is 29.41 :confused: What is wrong here? Thanks,

They are pretty good and do routing based on industry standard. Make sure you don't have AON flag set for your orders. I always get my fill when place sell-order little below ASK or buy-order at little above BID. So far very happy with OH.

FYI: "OptionsHouse" and "eOption", they both use same clearing house. Penson Financial Services, Inc. ftp://public.s3.com/11ac1-6/pfsi/PFSI_4Q2008_Rule606.pdf

Nah, I'm out of luck - their TWS won't connect from behind the proxy at work? Does anyone connect over "3G wireless card" - Is 5GB monthly enough for TWS?

The proxy at work does not connect for TWS; Guess port 4000 is blocked. Guess I don't belong here.

How can I enter options with multiple legs? I could not find any way to enter the same using WebTrader. Is it only available with TWS? http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/webTrader/webtrader.htm?ib_entity=llc Thanks,

I'm SOLD :-) Will join your happy IB CAMP in a month or two :-)

This is what is going to happen if you shutdown H1B completely. Companies will open huge offices in India/China and IT jobs will go there permanently. Looks back into history and see what happened to manufacturing industry. What will that that mean for US economy in the short run? 1...

Very true - it surely looks lot better now after the market-close :-) I get your point - because seller of credit spreads makes profit by time decay or when underlying does not move in the direction in which buyer wants it to move - so scaling out strategy wont apply here. Every day is a...

I read following strategy for debit spread. Close half of your position when you've made 50% of max possible profit and then close remaining position once you reached 80% of max potential. Not sure how does this apply for credit spread. Risking $2 for 0.60 cents is a game of high...