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they don't just happen to have the same theta. all calls and their corresponding puts have the same theta. other wise there wouldn't be put call parity.

Besides the conspiracy part, most of what nitro said is dead on. i have personally seen option volume greatly reduced in an etf as it went to pennies. for small retail customers, it's great for them to get in and out. however, i think it has become a disaster for the larger banks and hedge...

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dude, this was said days ago. the stock is hard to borrow, so when you need short deltas, whether through stock or options positions, you will be better bid on puts and better offered on calls. this is all dependent on the carrying cost of the stock. all the numbers have always added up...

we are in the process of moving our group to another firm. we trade all the major index products. i'm not super familiar with people in your situation, but it sounds that if you go to goldman with your own capital, you won't have a problem. i think there may be other people like yourself...

do you need a cross-margin account? are you trading futs vs cash settled index options? i assume no as a customer. will you need access to capital or are you ok with what you have? if you don't need capital you can probably just go to goldman and use redi plus along with something like...

a jbo is not a joint brokerage account. it's a joint back office. my group has been talking to one. i don't know how many exist. what sort of trading do you do? it may or may not remotely interest them. are you trading vol? carrying large positions? daytrading? do you have a...

the bigger the delta of the option the wider the market will be relative to the other markets. so all the deeps will be wide. also, there is not a need to be aggressive on displaying option prices for options with little volume. market makers also want more edge to trade illiquid products...

no prob. just please read a good option book before you ever consider selling an option with real money. large gap moves happen a lot more often than you think and there is nothing you can really do if it happens to you except to take you loss or trade out of it.

you understand that if you sell an OTM option and the stock moves to the strike, the option price will increase. near expiration, you may not see the increase until it explodes. so if you sell a call and the market rallies, the call price goes up. you need to buy the call back at a higher...

wallstreet journal, briefing.com, bloomberg.com just to name a few.

this thread is funny.

i suggest reading this before you try trading with real money and lose everything. it is beyond my comprehension to think you could be exposed to unlimited risk and never think you could cover it...

lasner, i think the biggest problem with gold vs the us dollar would be picking what to buy and what to sell. they are currently moving inversely, but they don't necessarily have the correlation that two stocks in the same sector may have. you would also need to margin the naked short option...

what exactly do you consider a wide market? why do you think it would be a good idea to have "the public" be able to market make options? are you going to make a two-sided market in every strike of some stock you like? just curious.

if i understand you correctly, you want to trade OTC options instead of exchange listed options? those markets are wider and you would need to get a quote from multiple banks every time you wanted to trade. you also are not likely trading big enough that they will create the option for you...

i assume by this you mean index futures and options. they don't trade them.

get out your tin foil hats!!!!

if you have that big of an account, you would probably just set up directly with a clearing firm. yes it is legal.