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it was one to one chat and i dont hold short calls. he saw my account beforehand

It was the broker who said assignment. I think he meant that if their risk dept will choose to exercise my long puts these will make me to pay divs.... otherwise his words doesn't make sense... P.s. still see options on the account. No shares. It is too early in US

What about liquidity of SPY on last trading day? At what time it becomes difficult / too expensive to close SPY positions?

This is what my borker said yesterday: -- SPY is having a 0.6526 dividend paid so you may want to review all positions that may end up being assigned and close those that may assign short shares to the account overnight. Otherwise your account would be liable to pay those dividends if the...

If you had few spreads with total qty 25.. and you are inteded to close this position before expiration... and it is last trading day (ie today).... what time you would say is the latest while liquidity is available.. How the MMs spreads are behaving during the last trading day?

If my spreads will result in short position in SPY on this weekend expiration. How do I estimate when is good idea to close the options position before expiration and when is to wait for expiration. Need kinda rule of thumb so I dont have to think long about it. All the spreads are puts...

to be able to manage different spreads separately. I am not trading this for profit but for experience. minus 10 bucks on comms worth not to screw the whole portfolio (which i did anyway).... so. the real answer - cos i am an idiot probably :)

of course I can. The question was - what is the 'usual' way in the options retail world. options are OTC so it is up to the entity who is dealing this for you and local regulations. the simplest example - cash forex and spreadbetting (which are otc too) - you can have positions in opposite...

I have made a handful number of trades in options. So may be my question is pretty stupid. However I tried to open position where some of orders had same strike as previously held position in opposite direction. I was kinda confident if there are types of orders as Buy To Open and Buy To...

Chinese, Russians, Iranians, North Koreans and many more including Burkina Faso want to rule the f-king world. If you receive few billions from mining platinum there is very big chance that you will consider yourself Napoleon and will attempt to rule f-king world tomorow despite what you are...

thank you sanjay. we already have enough local commies.

I understand that CME started to migrate majority of the markets in 2009 and finished this year. From what I could manage to find the order matching latency went down dramatically and also that CME now reports more information to the feeds. Anyone have more details on that? What change in...

I understand CME migrated all their matching engines to new ones. Is there official information on latency and reporting data changes?

what? it is like - Osama bin laden was president of USA. speaking to IB support is like running maraphon with a melon up your ar$e. and who is shill here?

3200 ms? is it California, The Moon, Earth Orbit?

well said well said.. ignore those bastards! and dont forget to feed squirrels !!

start feeding red squirrels! they are extinct

I think besides the fact you failed the information on what markets you traded and rough understanding of your approach to trading will help other people to make max out of this...

his socialists party simply wants the capitalists pigs (us) to bankrupt ourselves and clear the way for the real saviours (them). he talks no sense he talks his political agenda.

here how you might look amongst walking dead after the rapture: http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq327/jbatanacio/CoolJesus.jpg