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still no ISE quotes for goog

Please give the option to exclude the PSE from smart option routing

Is anyone else having problems with US option orders today? It takes me 10 seconds from when I press submit to when it turns green (accepted). Customer service is a waste of time as usual.

Is there any way to use Xtrader or Jtrader to trade US stock or options?

This is the response I got on the trouble ticket: 20060223 14:36 johnw : If you wish to cancel an order you will have to do that manually on your TWS. I guess not all IB employees are familiar with this?

Excellent, I will file one immediately, thanks for your help.

I don't use stop orders, and an OCA would not work for my purposes.

I am paranoid about losing my power or internet connection, is there any way to program IB to autmatically cancel all my orders upon my TWS losing its connection to the server?

I was wondering the same myself, I would think that this is pretty important for most people.

He wants it to go down but not die. It was probably put on at no credit or debit, but because he bought the 2.5 instead of the 5's his max loss is 2.5X12k=3,000,000 if it goes below 5. Stays profitable from ~3.5 to 30, I kind of like that bet.

As mentioned in the paper, last Thursday someone bought 12,000 Jan 08 25, sold 24,000 15's, bought 12k 2.5. Any opinions?

From the Feb. 11 WSJ: Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank AG has advised clients on a potential options strategy based on movements of shares of Research in Motion Ltd. Investors are biting their fingernails to see if the BlackBerry maker can fend off legal challenges from NTP Inc., which claims to hold...

From my reading of the margin page at IB, putting a collar on a position does not affect my margin other than by the credit (or debit) that the option legs add. Basically, even though I put a collar on a position, it will not benefit my margin despite the collar removing any risk from the...

The fills are terrible AND I am not getting quotes on any combo involving both stock and options (buy-write, etc.)

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OK, how about on an equity position?

What I am looking to find is something that is a low risk, low return, high probability trade that earns a little more than the risk free rate. Obviously I know that I can just risk less (i.e. putting 90% in bonds), but that is not what I am looking for. Selling OTM prem is high probability...

Does anyone trade or know of any no risk or very low risk strategies that can be done at the retail level, that earns higher than the risk-free rate of return (currently ~4%)? Does anything like this exist at all? There has to be some way to earn single digit returns with options, everything I...

Yes, that is the one that was on Forbes this morning