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Hi, Would anyone be kind enough to elighten me why KOSPI 200 options are the most liquid ones in the world? I mean, what is so attractive? Or do they have a special deal going there....trade 10,000 option contracts and you get a car or something?:D Cheers.

Oh, I see, you were talking about account opening forms not account statments...my bad, sorry! Either way, I don't know what exactly you're looking for, but whatever it is I doubt you will ever find it. You just seem to have too many issues with too many things, IMHO. By the way, I am a...

By the way, it's not true that Thinkorswim doesn't have printed statements! It does! You also have the choice to receive them electronically in a .pdf format so you can print them out yourself.

Hey Milstar, Are you gonna die trying to choose the best broker and never actually place a single trade or what? No really, I don't see any point to your questions.....you just keep going and going and going on about platforms, routing, trading and etc. It ain't space shuttle launch...

McDonald's!? Oh, I see, you're flipping burgers and trading on the side!?:D

The guy is in Germany, you gotta give him some credit for trying! Or maybe he's using one of those online translators....

This day will never come, my friend! My positions are always limited risk, no matter what happens! So there's no way in the world I could lose all my capital in a platform crash, besides should that happen (the platform crash, that is) I can always call my broker and ask to close out all of my...

Let me put it this way, the difference between a web-based platform and the desktop platform is like night and day. In other words, the desktop platform is superior to the web-based one. The desktop platform is extremely stable!

Yes, Thinkorswim is more expensive than IB, but it is cheaper than OX under certain conditions, besides you can pick OX commission schedule at Thinkorswim if you like, among some other brokers' schedules (no IB though). However, commissions are not the single most important factor in choosing...

May I ask why covered calls? Do you already hold some stocks and wanna write some covered calls against them or do you actually wanna do buy-writes (i.e. buying the stock just to write covered calls)?

The more I trade the more I come to the conclusion that trading is all about exits and risk management, just as Patrick says. Although I agree that we as retail traders control when and where we begin exposing our account to risk, the main problem with entries is that we can control what the...

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Time value is the greatest for ATM options hence the difference between the two.

Riskarb, First, I guess I should have expressed myself more clearly. What I meant to say is that, generally, there are no risk-free trades. Second, even though the trades were completed within seconds it doesn't mean that they were risk-free, you still had some risk while the other leg...

Let me quote myself: "Vertical spreads and iron condors can be low risk strategies if used correctly..." I didn't say that they are low risk taken at face value, I said that they CAN BE low risk! Either way, I agree with you regarding position sizing and that optioncoach doesn't really...

Well, why not!? I didn't say that it was THE strategy to use nor did I equate "high probablity" to "low risk" just pointing someone who asked for help in the direction of a thread where the person actually posts real option trades without all the bullsh*t that some other threads have. Besides...

No such thing as a risk-free trade, there's always risk, without risk there's no reward, except for arbitrage of course, but that's a different story. Check out this thread for some ideas: www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=49586 Another thing you can do is this. Take 90% of...

Just to be precise, it is not a broker who has a policy, but it is the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) that has the automatic exercise rule for options which are more than $0.25 ITM at expiration. You should really know the instruments you're trading, guys.

If you don't know what moves a stock then you shouldn't be trading stocks let alone leveraged instruments.

OK, I see. The last one was $2, so based on that it's 18.39%.