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Ha, was about to say the same thing. The early Tulip buyers made money as well.

The dividend amount is taken out of the stock price on the opening today. So pre-market it is down less then the dividend, so it is actually up.

Fyi, have been watching this one. Great dividend plays out there for the pro's. Huge call volume today, over 1,000,000 calls traded so far. Pro's love these plays as there is a lot of public open interest. And the public may not realize that they should exercise their calls. Large dividend...

This site tracks IB short rates and availability. If you contact them, they may have the information you are looking for. IBorrowDesk

The OCC gives assignments to member firms randomly. Your broker will give them to its customers in a pre determined method, usually randomly as well, but they may use another method such as FIFO.

Care to post what deal TOS is giving you?

Interesting, I had thought that when you get the Pro Customer designation when you trade over the 390 average, this would entitle you to be on both sides of the market. This is what I was told by my firm. So you are saying this is not true?

This was the biggest drawback for me as well. I trade a lot of spreads in less liquid tickers and when I got this designation, no one would trade with me, unless I really paid up. This was a couple of years ago. I now make sure I stay under the 390 order cap. I don't need another 3 month...

If you are classified as a "pro customer" you can be on both sides of the trade. But, there are a lot of downsides with this designation. You will be paying much higher exchange fees. You will lose customer priority at exchanges/products that offer it. Your orders will less likely to be...

Do they charge a different price if you are a professional or customer?

I think this was a big deal as the selloff was dramatic right on the close. There was over a 10 billion imbalance on the sell side for the close, the largest I've ever seen. If you play the expiring SPX options in the last couple of minutes of the close, there was some tremendous...

I would enter a spread, where I bought a put and sold a call. I would do it out of the money to avoid any call assignment risk. So for example I would buy the April 200 put, and sell the April 200 call. this would be synthetically shorting the stock. I would enter the order as a spread. The...

Looks like there is now availability on IB now. IBorrowDesk You can always synthetically short the stock with options as well if there is no availability in the future.

Market imbalance on the sell side was over 10billion. End of the quarter.

I believe you can access data through API when using WEX's system

You may also want to look at Live Vol. Stock Options Analysis & Options Trading Strategy Tools | Cboe LiveVol I was told they offer access to the COB, but I don't know firsthand.

It's what you can get with other trading platforms that are worth the money. For example, I use WEX Home - WEX (tradewex.com) They offer features such as a COB (complex order book) viewer. I can see and interact with spread orders that are resting in the various COB's and the spreads are...

I believe IB has a minimum commission of $1. Since VIX is single listed on the CBOE, the exchange also charges an extra fee of up to .45. Cboe Options Exchange Fee Schedule

The OCC put this memo out today concerning RUSL https://infomemo.theocc.com/infomemos?number=50122

Yep, this is the case if you are assigned. You will have to pay at least 1 day of interest, as you won't know of your assignment until the following day. So if you then trade out of the position, you still would have been short stock at least for 1 day.