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There are two types of SPX. The weeklies/PM settled settle at 4:00 on Friday and have about the same liquidity as ES. I am almost always filled 5 cents past the mid if there are market maker quotes on both bid and ask (if a retail order is inside the market maker bid/ask its harder to see the...

My situation was 100 percent scenario 2. I had ES option debit spreads, so I'd paid the max exposure on opening plus I still had plenty of margin left, but not enough margin to take delivery of the actual ES futures. I pointed out the page you referenced to the customer service rep at IB because...

To the original question, I've been autoexercised on Thursday for ES options expiring Friday. They can and will do it whenever they want.

Most U.S. full-time MBA programs are two years. The first year courses are the same at any reputable program in the U.S., and can be undergrad level although at some schools they offer several tiers of each class based on experience. If you had an engineering undergrad and want to be a CFO, for...

While networking is key and you may get lucky hanging out at ski resorts, that's a really, really hard way to do it. If you can get in, going to one of the top 5 MBA programs will get you an excuse to talk to a bunch of these same people in business and non-business settings where they're...

One wonders if this was mostly left hand not knowing what right hand is doing and a compliance miss. No reason in the world for J.P. Morgan or Omega to purposely manipulate a market to make $600K or $68K respectively. But easy to see how a trader or algo in one part of the firm would be short...

If some dude accosted you on the street and took just "a few hundred dollars" or broke into your house and stole "just a few hundred dollars" you'd probably be pretty mad, file a police report, demand justice.... And if I heard you telling the story at work the next day and my response was "why...

Not to be a smartass but its binary and you're probably thinking vanilla where there is a difference. There is no difference in binary between selling a call and buying a put. Nadex has a bid/ask spread and you can offer inside that spread to be the new bid/ask, or you can sell a position you...

Still trying so hard to avoid explaining "500,000 slick and greedy Jews who suck the life blood out of the rest." And seriously, the problem with financial regulators is that they're Jewish, and you know this because you've "see countless Jewish regulators"? And "you haven't seen any evidence or...

"500,000 slick and greedy Jews who suck the life blood out of the rest.", that's racists, prejudice and bigoted in anyone's English dictionary. You obviously realize that somewhere deep down since you are trying oh so hard to ignore the fact you typed it, to the point of being ridiculous. "Ex...

Like I said, genuinely doesn't see it. Thanks for letting me know how to pronounce prejudice and that it's a noun. However English is a first language for me, and a statement like "Maybe thats just me but I prefer communism over 321,000,000 American idiots and 500,000 slick and greedy Jews who...

Volpunter accuses someone else of a tirade and hate, that's rich! Next thing you know he's going to start accusing others of racism. You're a sad little man. I actually feel a bit sorry for you because I think you probably honestly think you're not prejudiced and you're adding value when you...

Optionsxpress is a great company, but be aware that they are very platform limited. They shut down their API (although they have yet to remove the web pages a year plus later) and have few if any third party platforms that work with them. They seem to have shut down the division that does...

One wonders if you've ever been subjected to the due diligence you think so poorly of? Its pretty thorough and pretty painful, and most certainly would turn up that a new fund was made of retreads from previous failed funds. What do you think they do, play a round of golf with the fund manager...

There's generally no way to claim a loss if you're in individual who is incurring unreimbursed cost by your employer. There are a couple narrow exceptions but mileage isn't one of them. If you're a contractor then it's a different story. Depending on if your job type is eligible for you to be a...

This "feature" predates that by a while. Who knows with those clowns. Best I can tell they have a disconnected group of risk guys and programmers that cook up these algorithms without any feedback from customers or brokers. They then have an uneducated call center team that knows next to...

IB has a dynamic "feature" that's so restrictive it sometimes won't even let you hit the bid/ask or put in a market order to close an existing position if their algorithm in its wisdom decides the spread is too wide. Try some out month corn futures orders on the paper trade account to test it out.

Glad I was able to get you to even more clearly articulate your true colors. Amazing that you spend a paragraph with this ridiculous assertion that Jews have unfairly taken over power in the United States, then have the gall to claim you "do not hold prejudice"! In your world, Asian Americans...

This just isn't OK in any way. Your anti-semitism is abhorrent and completely unacceptable. It's not political correctness that says you don't stereotype someone because of their race, it's just common human decency. This post, and sadly the majority of your posts, make this community a less...

Um, yes, I think we established that. The question was why the difference between the pm settled SPX and the pm settled OEX and XEO.