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Please see the screenshot attached. It is from Optiomistics scanner. I scanned for expensive puts there. First record says to sell Put with a strike 5. The Put price is 2.10. The stock is at 2.77 BALT 2.77 1.5M 20 Dec '14 18 5.00 P 2.10 50 -4.69 1.563 68.75% It says...

Hello, Does anyone know what options exchanges in IB have the lowest commissions? I would like to switch from smart execution to lowest commission exchanges.

Hello, Is there any equity options broker who does not consider short calendar spread as a naked short option and does not require full margin when initiating the spread? Thanks.

Anybody trades reverse iron condors with success (otm debit spreads instead of credit one)? What you think aboit this strategy?

noregrets, thanks. will check them. Looks like a lot to read... :D

s0mmi, seems like you talk about futures spreads than options. In short you mean buy ZN and sell Bund? I was doing such things like buying 2 ZN and selling 3 ZF.

If I buy call butterfly and I am wrong with market direction. How can I hedge the position, e.g. buy put debit spread? Or is it better to buy put butterfly too? I mean both OTM butterflies. I do not like so many legs used though. Is it better to use OTM butterfly on 1 - 2 week time frame or...

atticus, please give a live example of such a diagonal. Do you sell deeper in the money than you buying, or you buy deeper in the money than you selling. Do you initiate this spread DITM or ATM?

IV_Trader, what are the time flies? The same strike but different months? Do you sell first month -1 second month +2 and third month -1?

Yes I know that it may have different bid/ask spreads, margin reqs, commissions, etc. What I meant is how the positions may behave in regards of profit/loss. Taking into account time decay, IV change. Could it be better to use underlying as one side of the straddle or it is all the same thing.

Ladies and gentlemen, For example CL is at 90. I buy 2 CL puts at 90 and 1 CL futures contract. Will this position be identical to the following positions: buy 1 CL put at 90 and 1 CL call at 90. sell 1 CL futures and buy 2 calls at 90. Thanks.

Hello, For example ES is at 1490. I sell call at 1490 for 13 and buy call at 1530 for 1.40. So it is a credit spread 40 points wide. Tell me please what will be my total loss in this spread? Do I need to multiply 50 x 40 points = $2000 loss? And breakeven point in this spread is...

You do not need to have enough cash to maintain long positions. But if you want them keep to expire worthless, for safety reasons, instruct your broker not to exercise them if they happen to appear in the money. If you do not have enough cash to hold a stock and you are exercised or assigned...

Strangler, yes you are right. I am far away from such things)) So you buy further otm 3 longs and sell closer to money 2 shorts weeklys. If your shorts are about to go in the money do you buy them back and sell new shorts further atm? How wide your spreads (longs-shorts)? I was testing...

Do you buy long term longs at the money or out of the money? And sell shorts closer to money? Or your longs are in the money? I asked about similar strategy here http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=260219 Buying itm strangle and selling atm short term strangle. But looks...

rwk, please tell what are the better combinations you prefer for longer term trading? semsem, if you know how to predict market move correctly you can buy atm put or call or sell itm credit spread, for example if AAPL stays at 448 and you think it will go down you may sell 445 call, buy 450...

There is no Russian Mafia. There is Jewish Mafia of Russian origin. All so called Russian oligarchs and bank owners are Jewz actually (e.g. Abramovich, Vekselberg, Fridman, Deripaska, Potanin, Usmanov, etc). Well the same situation in USA. So I guess Russia, USA and Europe and probably the whole...

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You may lose money if it does not move strong enough and sometimes it does not move much. I tried to buy straddles on Friday (they are cheap atm) so it may be dangerous when it's not moving. Better buy 2 calls at 440. You probably will not get a big credit if any, but will have narrower break...

Who is your broker? RUT could go up during off hours (non US trading session) probably. Could it be the reason? Though I am newbie to options so just guessing. You need to check other charts, at Yahoo for example, and see if they correspond to your broker charts for the same time. If there...