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From the prospectus, which you read: http://media.proshares.com/documents/ProSharesProspectus.pdf Principal Risks ProShares UltraShort Lehman 20+ Year Treasury is subject to the following principal risks: • Aggressive Investment Technique, Risk Correlation Risk, Counterparty Risk...

I don't like the liquidity on TBT. The tape is way too slow there most of the time. Might be right about the long trade, but if you need to smack a bid, there's no depth there. Also, I wouldn't discount completely the risk in the ETF instrument itself.

of course kudlow is a permabull. he waltzes out of the studio with his multi-million dollar contract, gets into his bmw or lexus, has the driver take him to his fully paid off connecticut or new york home and his house staff is there waiting to ask him what he would like prepared for dinner...

so much for that divergence... :/

you should know the answer to this beforehand. one general rule of thumb is to close out credit spreads when they move against you by an amount equal to the credit received. so, if you sold it for 2 and it moves to 4 on the ask, close it for a loss of 2, etc. if you sold it for 5 or...

Yes, Smiling Bob is living large!

Mozilo's primary concerns are his tan and his custom-tailored suits, in that order.

open book exams are not open discussion exams, at least they never were during my education.

i'm from philly. in jersey now. sorry folks, i filed a moderator complaint about posting the exam questions like this. also, i will not hesitate to call TOS tomorrow and tell them that the PM exam has been compromised. i'm not afraid to take a new one, are you?

oh man. this is so utterly inappropriate.

actually, i think that's a good example of the vast difference between the two margin styles, but not a real example of the 37.50 per contract minimum. but you get the gist of it.

if you look at some portfolio margin examples from CBOE: http://www.cboe.com/micro/margin/margin_req_examples.pdf the fourth line, "Protective Put" with 10 sticks of IBM and 100 puts shows that 37.50 contract minimum margin in play. the margin is $37,500 versus $498,000 under...

i think you're confusing the 37.50 contract minimum margin with commissions.

Tuesday, July 24, at 4:00am CDT, we will release version #927. New features include: Portfolio Margining - Portfolio-based index cross margining to supplement portfolio margined accounts has now been added to the TOS desktop for accounts that qualify.

it could be described as a short, out-of-the-money, diagonized wingspread. if the front vert goes out worthless, he owns the back vert at a greatly reduced cost, possibly less than free, depending on what he paid/received net for the whole thing.

yes, you're right. it must be my inability to listen during a telephone conversation. my mistake.

I got that exact response from one of the "press 4 for account-related questions" people, no one in management. Waiting for an email response from a higher-up.

TOS seems to be backing away from any imminent roll-out of Portfolio Margining. The word I hear now is "hopefully within the next quarter."

i think writing GOOG straddles into earnings is way too much risk for 99.9% of the options trading community. pure insanity for MOST traders.

harvesting the "failure to exercise mistake" of other traders makes perfect sense to me....