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You are right, their objective is not to have to pay money to cover up any clients' losses. I was just referring to the MTM process itself and how they are presumably valuing the clients' positions. Exactly, it backfired and they took a hit, small one, yes, but a hit. Hope this will open their...

@Tomaz26 You are probably being cornered. You sold the 4 puts yesterday and that was all the volume done for the whole of the day. IB must value your position through their algorithm. The algorithm details are not known, but it uses a series of prices in order to value your position as...

Agree, only if you are short long dated options where it's almost certain the stock will be back before they expire. For the free theta, you forfeit position control. I agree that volatility is expected after a halt, which would hurt your short option position, but there is also the direction...

There are advance GDP numbers coming out at 8:30 AM.

No, only designated energy futures are allowed negative (Including HO, RB, CL, BZ, etc...). Rest are still floored at 0 or the minimum tick above 0 actually.

They responded already, confirming that negative prices are working for both TWS and the gateway. Good luck

Oh, this stock halt is every option sellers' dream (If you have sold short options for premium before the halt of course). Time decay with no price movement and no volatility, just time decay. It might not be fair, but this is how the market operates, so guess for option buyers, halts might be...

This should be enough evidence, negative prices are supported:

You mean like copying the most successful traders & accounts on eToro and making millions of $$$???

That's not the Fed buying equities directly, that's the Fed including certain equities as eligible collateral in the PDCF (Primary Dealers Credit Facility). In other words, it's telling primary dealers the following: If you are short in cash & hold equities, don't sell them to raise cash, just...

I received the same email from them (On 27 Apr also) besides the flashing bulletin in TWS.

There is a simple logic to disprove the assumption that your broker (Or one of it's employees) is out to get the detailed secrets of your trading strategy or to reverse engineer it. This logic is called "Future is uncertain for everyone" including your broker, including the employees of the...

Oh, how come you didn't get that notice in your bulletins? That's a flaw from IB for sure. Just to highlight, I don't currently have positions or even orders in any of the mentioned products (I have existing positions in a related instrument, SCO), but this notice is irrelevant to those...

There is a beginning to everything. First you buy treasuries. If doesn't work or is not enough, then you buy treasuries & IG corporate bonds, still doesn't work, then you buy Ts, IG and Junk, doesn't work anymore, you buy everything out there. The deeper the hole you are digging yourself in...

Hot from the oven. So summary, cash settled contracts will not be available for trading until the last day (They will follow the physically delivered contracts), so 2 business days prior to the contract expiry will be the last trading day for all contracts. Opening or increasing positions will...

It's usually the other way around. If there is a high probability of bankruptcy, put options premiums will reflect this. Usually options market makers will change their pricing algorithm to adjust put premiums for higher volatility on the downside, they just adjust based on the probability of...

Or even how highly flammable it is.

The CME listed FX options lack liquidity almost across all pairs (EUR/USD included). If you will be trading less than 20 option contracts, this should be fine, although you should expect slippage when closing out. Anything more than that will prove challenging. Liquid FX options are mostly OTC...

Thanks for your feedback, appreciated.