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Better yet, 0 contracts, like myself. :cool: Why would one buy calls on the weakest of the three major ETF's? If you want to be long, buy DIA calls on a pullback.

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Most retail brokerages suck.

This has not happened yet, but it may happen. The SEC and exchanges are ready. One should not assume that one would be able to adjust and/or close a naked puts position before one's broker, responding to a margin call, takes a wrecking ball to one's account at the least opportune time.

It only makes sense to write a covered ITM call when one already owns the stock, expects it to decline to the strike, and does not want to sell the stock (perhaps because of tax considerations). Buying a stock that one expects to decline (in your case, 25%) and writing a DITM call against...

Naked puts on indices are considerably riskier than naked calls Because index futures may gap down 10-20-30% overnight triggering a huge spike in IV.

First, you'd have to get through your company firewall.

If you have access to the web, you should be able to access trading software running on your home PC by way of gotomypc.com. A 1-year subscription costs $99.

Naked puts on indices are considerably riskier than naked calls. Same is true for established megacap companies that are unlikely to be taken over (MSFT, WMT). For most stocks, naked calls and puts carry about the same level of risk.

Options combo orders wants: - a template for Iron Condor. - whenever I put together an options combo, TWS pops up a window explaining what it means to buy/sell the combo. This is great. I would also like this window to pop up every time a combo order is transmitted. - a way to edit...

Is it possible to place an Iron Condor through IB and, if yes, how? When I tried to submit an IC order (see attachment), I got a message suggesting that I was trying sell a naked call in a cash (IRA) account.

http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=65347

I use Google extensively, buy never click on their ads. I suspect that most clicks are generated by bots.

I saw this before on Island. I believe this is done programmatically. The idea is to use someone else's bid as a short-term price support. Once a front running order is filled, the program enters a sell limit order a few pennies above the purchase price. If the ask moves lower, the program...

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Look who is calling the kettle black! Janis Leigh Karpinski (born May 25, 1953, Rahway, New Jersey) is a United States Army Colonel in the 800th Military Police Brigade. She was demoted from Brigadier General in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal...

I don't watch propaganda films.

They don't call it CompUSSR for nothing. Get a Dell.

Unlike IB, TOS has a very nice options analysis software. Unfortunately, it is not accessable through the webtrader. To answer my own question: it is possible to access the ToS app running on one's home computer with the Windows Remote Desktop client and HTTP Tunneling software. I used...

Bill Clinton ought to register as a foreign agent for Dubai.