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I am not going to pay $2+ for these so maybe this was not such a great idea. Will keep looking, maybe for others.

I want to buy some way out of the money calls in anticipation of a large market move in say the next two years. One example is SPXS $30 Jan 2026. It is currently bid ask at 0.01 x3.20 on my IB TWS. I placed a bid at 0.10 but was not filled. Is there any way I can find out what it is actually...

I left a bit out. I shorted $80k in one account and the positions are still in that account. I have a second account that is Used to borrow margin money against some long positions. I was thinking of transferring the short positions to the second account and trying to borrow against those. I may...

I called IB and they said you can. But it just does not seem right so I came here to get some more insight. I am not saying you are not correct, just that I am confused.

I want to try something. Suppose I have an account with $80,000 worth of stocks and ETFs short. I want to buy a car for about $15,000 cash. Can I take a margin loan against my short positions to do that?

I really do admire you guys.

I was forced to buy the stock at $100 when it was trading at $96. Read my post again and again. And again.

You just do not get it.

Not my point. I was put the stock long at $100 when the current price was $96. So How can I become the person to buy a stock at $96 when it is trading at $100?

Hey everyone, so I have had a few options assigned early which I imagine we all hate because that is almost always to our detriment. But my question is, how does an individual get access to these options so I can buy or sell the stock? For example, I made a bad trade a few months ago. I sold a...

I sold a couple January $13 SOXL puts naked and it is currently at $13 so I am in the money, or very close. My question is, what happens if I let these expire on Friday. Will I end up being long the stock at $13? I am ok with being long but do not want to end up short. Yes, I should know...

COUP Jan 85 put is one but they all look the same, 3 and often more dollar spreads. My instinct tells me to stay away from these but before I give up, I want to see if there is any way around this.

i am looking at selling premium on some high IV options. The problem on many of these is that the spread is often ridiculous. One I am looking at is $4 bid and $8 ask. Is there any way to defeat that? I realize this is a risky strategy but on that one I placed a limit sell at $7.20 and am not...

Of course selling short is good if it goes to 0 but then the trade is over. In many of these, if I ended up with the underlying I could have made 20 or 30 points instead of 2. I can hold but do prefer entering via options so I get the premium when I open.

Hey all, I am doing well selling option premium but think I could be doing better. My method is good at finding periods of drifting before a trend reversal. Very often the options I sell expire worthless, which I am not sure if that is a good thing. I am more than happy to buy or sell whatever...

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You have to hit Ctrl+ Alt + = and a popup will tell you how many lines you are using.

Lol, I tried that about a year ago but thank you for such brilliant advice. It turns out most retail customers are allowed only 100 total lines of data which means contracts. For some reason my TWS thought I had anywhere from 113 to 500 lines of data. So I re installed TWS after deleting my...

I am on stable as well and downloaded the newest version today and that did not fix the problem.

I have been trading with IB for 20 years on and off and now recently, all I get is ? marks in my bid/ask fields for half of my contracts. I have called tech support about 8 times and they try a few things which allow me to get data for a few minutes then it drops again and all I see are ? marks...