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so what is NDX settlement price: open or close tommorrow?

I was placed a buy order with IB on NDX aug 1525 put bid 10 size 400 ask 11 size 287 I submitted the limit order for one at 10.5 as soon as I submitted the order, bid and ask changed to the following.. bid 10.5 ask 12 This happened 2 more times... everytime I submitted...

Coach, having said risk management involves not falling asleep at the wheel.. As you suggested: I bought back my 1540 / 1550 calls on monday for a $4 loss and rolled up to the 1560 / 1575 calls for a 1.3 credit. The 1560 / 1575 currently have a $4 credit What do I do now...

Phil, First, let me say that I really appreciate what I have learned from you and others in this very informative thread. I was just kidding about prayer as I would never bring God into my trading. I already closed my put spread of the condor for a small gain.. maybe .30...

nlslax.. I think NDX was around 1490 last week when i started the iron condor. optioncoach.. awaiting your reply!

Coach, I have one NDX 1540 / 1550 credit call spread left over from an iron condor I opened last week. When I opened it I received about a $1 NDX as you know closed way up at 1533 friday and the spread is now almost $4 My maximum loss is $1000 less the $100 I took in. What would...

Coach, I began my SPX credit trades yesterday with ONE 1150 / 1155 put spread for .30 credit. Getting decent legging in fills using IB was a bitch. Everytime you change your order price, it is considered a cancel / replace order with $1.20 charge. I think that I got charged about 7...

Yesterday I got a $2.40 order cancellation fee on my statement. I place a couple of option day orders but they were never filled and I did NOT cancel them. Turns out, everytime you change the price, they will charge a $1.20 order cancellation fee. They said that the policy currently...

Coach, On the July 1110 / 1125 put spread: What would be the price that SPX would have to drop to before you initiated your hedges / or stop losses ? You mentioned earlier in this thread about using SPY bull call spread as some sort of hedge against a big drop. Do you mind...

Coach, I noticed the bid / ask spreads on SPY are much tighter than SPX. Any reason you are not doing this strategy with SPY ? Thanks for your great thread! esu2

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How about OTM naked put instead of credit spread? For that HUI example, just sell the 200put and forget about the debit. That would maximize your risk reward by giving you a better breakeven and credit. You could set a buy stop order if the option goes up 50% giving you a 2 to 1...

Anybody know where to get raw downloadable data for ALL stock options either end of day or delayed. Just need: symbol, underlying price, call/put, strike, expire, bid, ask, last? What seems to be missing from http://www.stricknet.com/main/data.htm and others is the underlying price...

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Let me clarify, when I say 1 pt.. i mean 4 quarter pt ticks. For example: Buy emini at 900 Sell emini at 899 stop Sell emini at 902 limit My experiences are that it is not as hard as you think. Noise is noise. I can only think of one time in the past month that I didn't have...

I would like to start a discussion about useful indicators/patterns for trading the 1 min emini charts risking 1pt to profit 2pts. Some ones I have found include: 20 ema, macd histogram, relative strength, stoachstics, and 30 min break outs. esu2

You might want to give Optionstar a try. http://www.optionstar.com It has several free delayed datafeeds and realtime for 10 bucks a month. There is some historical options data in the Spread Scanner module.