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I do not support delivery/optionexercise too. as I told you, we are human being. sometimes we may have some mistakes and let that happen. totally understable.

of course you need pay the primum. margin is diiferent from premium, like house downpayment. beyond the premium you need pay, you need "setaside amount of money" to initiate the option trade. that is not desirable for pure option traders. whatever, it seems you know nothing about option...

no. you are wrong. I traded 2yrs options. crude 1.8 means $1800. that is the same as CL. for stock option, if 0.5, that means $50bucks. that is it. that is whyIcan trade 10000 shares of AAPL or more! otherwise options is meaningless. if there is the same amount of deposit to back an...

the marging requirements for option seems time related or strike related. IB does not ask me for margin for OTM in friday expiration, for ITM on friday, I need a margin. that makes trading ITM on expiration day not desirable. like AAPL/goog, they ask more than 20k. gee, better trade...

yes, I paid the premium, but I dont exercise ITM. why the margin requirements. I traded options almost 2years. if my account has 50k, I can buy 50k puts/calls withno question. what I know is Friday expiration after 2:30PM, IB starts to require margin on trading stock options. very bad...

IB sucks in this way. they discrinmate small retail traders. so I siwtch to buy USO puts. USO puts has no margin requirements. but I hate USO too. it is treated as stock. I need carefullybookkeep trading for IRS tax purpose. whilefuture option belongs tofuture, I just need keep monthly even...

I just buy call/put. to my understanding, there should not have margin requirements. when I trade CL, intra-day margin needs 2k. plus I need stop loss to manage "naugty noise'move. I hate stop loss to manage risk. often you are stopped out and themarket runs in your favor. crude hits...

if not sure. buy TLT call maybe better

my put went up 50%. easily can make 100~200%

otherwise I just shorted itwhen . and buy some put in oct/nov. this situation is temporary. I try to leverage,buy more than I can afford, end up missing the move.

kind of odd. I am buying crude put, want to gradually build up, but at some point, when I buy, IB rejected my order, message says "I just have this, in order to get the order executed, I need that much".the in the money needs more margin than the OTMs. I am not interested in the real CL. I...

I do not know what cause the flicking data feed. maybe my internnet subscriber, maybe IB. lots of things. I said something bad about IB in the survey, so I get a liitle bit nervous"do they revenge me?". Ib as a large firm, should be transprent, act accordingly. I think maybe that is my...

I feel somone is trying to maniuplate market data feed. some market data is unplugged, then back on. then unpluged again, then back on.

market data connection is not reliable this morning, anyonw with IB has the same issue

$400/day, better look for a regular job. plenty of jobs which can generate this steady income.

anyone has financial background should know how to read Form 4. I do not know how to read Form 4. here is an example of WFC. could someone explain to me what Hoyt David did?

why so called counter -trend trading works? first, most traders are just herd followers, they do not have brain. when they see others dump,they dump too. when others buy, they buy too. they get burned hard each time, they donot learn since they want to get rich quick, they want easymoney...

picked ZN124'190/ZB 133'030 bottom, nice rebound. all doubled my margin requirements. bought ZT at 109'257, more than tripled my margin requrements, almost four time gains. I am pround of myself as a bottom picker!

I shorted ES at 1772, it went up. but now it went down. shorted more. yes I do not know where top is, but lasttime High is 1785, I think it is just there. only suckers buy so high for breakout play.

nothing wrong about bottom picking and top short sale! top and bottom produce the best profitable trade. yes it is hard to predict top and bottom,but worth doing that. if you donot use margin, when index drop big, buy, maybe a little early,but often near the bottom or around there...