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agree, depending on each's preference and acct circumstance.

To clarify, TOS will let you sell naked put secured by cash available in your IRA acct (so does IB). But then there will not be much of leverage. However you can sell put spread in IRA to reduce the "margin".

Or buy/write with aug47.5call at 1.10 bid (that's very rich prem for C). or sell aug45put at .50 to own it at a lower price if put.

One important factor to consider is, w/ TOS you can do spreads in IRA accts whereas w/ IB, your short leg has to be cash secured. I've accts w/ both. IB's commission can't be beat for retail traders. Plus there is no assignment/exercise fee. But if I have to decide on one of these two, I...

I tried and it wouldn't allowed me to make the external mon as primary. And using a flash light, I couldn't see anything on the screen. I'm waiting to call Dell on Monday for service. Thanks dc for your info. opra

Bernoulli and dc, Same issue in safe mode. Now I can still use it w/ external monitor (normally I run w/ double screen). I just cannot control it (start apps or log out/soft turn off after main LCD screen blanks out). Is there a way to move xp's "Start" button to the right extended screen...

One of my laptops, Dell Inspiron 600m, is having a screen blank-out problem--after booting up and me logging in, its screen will blank out. And I have to hit power on/off button and reboot to login, only to experience the same problem. I do not have screen saver on and it is not running on...

Personally I have not had the need for it yet, w/ my all options portfolio.

Thanks very much, FT. It's very helpful. Good trading.

FT79, I was hoping you would offer a more specific example of changing and adjusting position. As I said, I usu start w/ directional bias by puttng one side on and sometimes leave the position at that, w/o putting on the other side. For instance, the short put spreads on indices worked very...

Thanks FT79. I have yet to become a true neutral trader w/r to IC. I always start out w/ one side, depending market condition, and afterwards, sometimes the other side is put on and sometimes is not. Putting on an IC at the price you want is difficult enough, and to get out you have to offer...

Care to be more specific on how you change your position? By closing out (one side or both)? Or by adjusting up/down? TIA Opra

You need to be more specific on how your execute a trade through your broker. Or did it occur to you that your commission is not cheap for a reason?

Maybe things have changed or maybe I didn't dig deeper as I was there for a couple of weeks and did not want to be actively involved. Next time I am there I will try again.

Zero spread? Do you get instant fills at the price you want to buy at the bid and sell at the ask?

Interesting. I just checked that now DBC, DBA and FXE have options listed as well. No chains for GLD and SVL yet. I don't know when they started being listed, but it seems volume/open interest are still amenic. But they are worth watching.

You brought up the factor that you failed to mention in your opening post. A lot depends on what style of trading you do and what markets you trade.

There is definitely a Great (Fire)Wall of China. When I was in Shanghai last year, my Tradestation wouldn't work, my scanning software couldn't connect to the vendor's website to get daily updates and IB was painfully slow, too slow even for swing trading. Only platform that worked well was...

That's what I was wondering--I didn't see their rates on their site. Thanks for the info. I will take a look. Regards, Opra

Osorico, Their published rates are pretty good, for retail traders. It used to be above $5 for e-mini's if I remembered correctly. Plus it's negotiable? Do you trade w/ e-cry? How do you like their platform? TIA Opra