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Hi After re reading the thread.Maybe it is very basic stuff. For me the influence of the interest rate in the fair future price is clear, but the dividends influence it isn't, mainly when there is an ex-dividend date in the middle of the contract. _If the future (dte=90) is 97 you will buy for...

Hi _I didn't know that IB doesn't accept combo orders with SPX options and ES futures. Different markets, different regulations. And more, they tell me - In addition, future contracts and securities are not cross-marginable so no margin offsets to lower the total margin is allowed between a...

Hi IB is my broker.I have a margin account, not a portfolio account. I am an option trader,or pretend it. I began trading about 3 months ago and I ave experimented auto-liquidation two times. The reason it was my short puts were early assigned and I didn't had enought cash to be long stock.In...

Hi Here a explanatory graph of what you said. Is there anyone who can explain why. Thank you

Hi Thank you for the explanation very interesting. spy spot= 243,44 sep15 future= 244,47 dte 99 days So it seems the interest rate used is 1,5% , little high , is this usual ? This is a very important difference, and you say it's not usual. What do you think.

Hi I really didn't know there were Spy futures. But , why Spy futures are in cntango and not in backwardation as is supposed to be.

Hi Here we had a good explanation of what is a fair future price. With the intention of better understanding how works the interrelation between spot price and future price. The strategy I was thinking in the las post is buy stock and sell future on the ex-dividend date. Objective, the...

Hi Thank you for your response In thinkorswim, Analyze, Positions and simulated trades, select portfolio instead of single symbol. Then it is possible to graph positions with different underlyings. if you know any analysis tool of Risk Profile, free or not, that allow to do this please tell...

yes, maybe he wrote his second post before I wrote my second one. No matter But also I don't think is wrong to graph any position although know the result. The expiration is the same day. I add an imatge.

Hi Sorry but i don't understand the question. yes I do, please what makes you think I do not know? thank you

Hi Yes i forgot to specify the underliyng of the put. SPX put and the /ES is an e-mini SP500 index future contract. I thouhgt that a /ES contract is the half of SPX contract.

Hi I am not an expert in Thinkorswim platform. I would like to ask a question about P&L graph for a specific strategy. The strategy is the following, all positions are for the next monthly expiration. sell 1 2450 PUT sell 2 /ES This position is a synthetic short call, and the graph it is...

Hi First I want to say that it is to be appreciated that someone writes a post like this. I find a bit exaggerated to say it is a multi thousand dollar class, but almost . You have good followers and that is good. Yes, It was difficult and counterintuitive for me but now i've seen. Thank you...

Hi It is a little intimidating to talk to people who plays in a superior league, but i'll try. JackRab, _Thanks to your and Robert Morse comments in this thread it became clear to me that Spx options are priced vs the SP or ES future. The underlying is the SP but the options prices traces the...

Hi You said, Reversal = + call - put - underlying If you do this with SPX itm calls you are going to loose for sure. The underlying is moving direction the spot price, but your options no. All that questions I am asking it is because I don't see the way to do what you propose in Spx options...

Hi I am talking about Spx options, not SPY options. Spy is like a stock. It has an ex-dividend date and the stock drops by the amount of the dividend. The Spy options are american style, and you will not see the itm calls be priced below the spot price, or it will be very easy to make money...

Hi So the real underlying for SPX option is the price of the future and not the Spx spot price. Because they can't be exerised before the expiration day. Therefore I understand people who buys itm calls with a discount, I mean with less intrinsec value than the SPX spot. One ting is sure,in...

Hi Sorry I have a Margin account, not a Portfolio margin account. I have to rectify, after looking closely. -An existing account must have at least USD 110,000 (or USD equivalent) in Net Liquidation Value to be eligible to upgrade to a Portfolio Margin account - And that is not my case. So...

It is a pm account. The strategy doesn't have more risk than what i said. That is for sure. Let's say it is a short strangle 100/150 and a long strangle 99/150 The IB algorithms doesn't recognize that is one combo, because of the 150, that's the same in the long an the short. And they take...

Hi As I said before I am new in the world of trading. I opened an Interactive Broker account two molths ago. I would like to explain what happened this week. I have an option position in Spy that the maximum risk for my account is 40,00 per contract. It is a multiple leg position, almost...