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There is no regulatory rule, the CBOE has no rule against it nor has any problem with it for license holders, they honestly didn't see that as impractical or uncommon either, I called them this morning. once again, the court of public opinion has the opposite consensus from the real authority

you missed the question, which regulation should I be aware of?

its more like one firm actually requires registration, the next firm just lets me trade their capital. which regulation should I be conscious of though

we'll find out!

hahaha i expect both to be very successful...... if I was scalp trading and had a shitty firm that didnt have access to options for hedging then MAYBE I would do what you are talking about

Hello, I am considering signing up with multiple prop firms **I DONT DO SCALP TRADING** so this isn't really like double the work the *only* drawback so far is the idea of paying multiple data feeds but lets weigh the imagined pros: - different buying powers and commissions...

hahahah wow, way to kill your account. this isn't rocket science, you use a short straddle IF you wish to attempt this at all never go into earnings directionally. high probability for IV crush if you sell straddle the day before earnings release high probability of gains if you...

the wrong side AND IV crush. wouldn't exactly call that winning!

I got assigned. position closed.

hold on, so I should buy the same number of wayyyy out the money puts to help with my deep in the money short call? can you elaborate on how this would be helpful? the price fluctuations of the underlying would barely move these puts

I guess this is a pretty n00bish mistake! I have read the options risk disclosure several times. I usually only trade liquid options and have never held for expiration or been assigned. I am new to this kind of covered strategy

I never take directional bets during earnings tell us about your hedge?

you can also trade futures and potentially hedge your overnight exposure.

Hello, I was doing a delta neutral strategy using deep in the money covered calls, well it was supposed to be delta neutral I opened it to completely protect me from all stock moves (up or down) temporarily. I am not collecting premium from this trade. anyway, lets say XYZ is trading at...

use the JAN 2013. You will be evaluating the short leg for close 6 months in two of three scenarios. 1) price is stagnant and theta has eaten it away 2) price has fallen to a support level, and theta has simultaneously eaten it away. the third scenario means AAPL has been very...

sorry, use AAPL or GLD but put this under the harshest scrutiny because I am looking for the flaws the "capped gain" complaints (of 400% by the way) on the spread itself isn't really an issue for me.

Hey so I have run some paper trades (let some weeklies depreciate) using the methodology and basically the risk profile max loss changes from 100% to max 200% loss after realizing the gain on the decayed short leg. This is tolerable if your position size is only 3% of your entire portfolio -...

you guys have nothing better to do?

lol, he was pulling your leg on large caps and popular ETFs there is always enough liquidity in the front months only the most liquid stocks and etfs have very liquid back month options

what is the symbol for hdd futures? I couldn't find it on the CME Group online catalog