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cboe.com has loads of cool educational articles that are free... as does Londons Liffe exchange... http://www.liffe.com/liffeinvestor/ http://www.cboe.com grasp the basics, then trawl through the entire options sections of ET, and trade2win.com to refine your knowledge...

thanks for the quick reply FA...Haven't actually tried any other futures, guess I should monday just to see.... Are you legging in to your positions then?

I'm not getting any quotes for standard option spreads in IB... (globex) all options with the XT abbreviation are the european style exercise, and oec the American... I can get quotes for XT, but none for EC, which is ok with me... however when I want an XT spread quote it mixes the styles...

I'm the same as yourself... Natenburg too soon is just going to bore you death with incomprehensible stuff. I'm probably going to get murdered on this board for recommending the book that James Cordier and some other fella wrote "option writing" (or something like that...) if your a total...

try and get hold of Charles Cottles' books, in particular "Options.... the hidden reality" it incorporates his earlier book "coulda, woulda, shoulda" and is well worth the price... It covers adjustments and synthetics in a simple to understand way, with piles of practical examples...

I just find Parallels so power hungry, its pretty slow. If you've got the money just get a windows machine as well, just for trading...

hello, forget parallels, get this http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ provided you get one of the new intel macs.

if you have one of the new intel macs, try this instead: www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ I found the whole 'Virtual PC' thing to be very CPU intensive (not sure if this is the same as parallels).

not sure if these people can help but heres the link: http://www.tdwaterhouse.co.uk/productsandservices/invest/bonds.cfm

I use a Mac g4 Powerbook, running TOS and Interactive Brokers workstations, which both work perfectly on it... Most applications are still windows based like Xtrader etc; and pretty much all of the professional charting packages... However, as you're probably aware, the Intel Macs are now...