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I mis-spoke when I told you about the haircut. Momoney is right, Simplex does not offer haircut margin, but does offer up to 5-1 option leverage.

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If you are bullish and have no opinion on iv levels you can buy calls or sell puts. Generally you will want to buy(sell) atm or itm calls(puts) proportional to how many deltas you are comfortable being long. Now, if you also have an opinion on volatility, you want to buy calls if you think...

This was trading on the Russell 1000 since late 2003, now in the s&p 500 as of late yesterday. I read somewhere that companies added tend to underperform once added to the index. I'm not sure if that included companies that were coming from another benchmark or not. Anyone else read that...

The inverse tenor skew between the IWM and the SPY? Is there a way to game an edge here? :confused:

I had the same problem, and it turned out to be the cooling fan as well. It's rubbing up against somthing, easily fixable.

That looks like CONTRA to me.

Great, thanks for the help fellas. :)

We are the richest most powerful nation on the planet. Our citizens have nothing better to do than to protest inane nonsense to keep themselves busy. That's my theory anyway. :D

Thx rally, does IB have a dedicated pit order phone line? From what I gather it's none too easy to get a rep on the phone expeditiously[sic]. Are the commish more for phone orders as well? I'd rather avoid the ES options altogether if push came to shove.

Can I trade the 'big' SP futures options at IB? Their website is a bit vague. If not, who would you recommend for this? TIA

This should be in the Religion and Politics thread. Not in chit chat.

You mean we all like to go out, party and pull tail? Guilty! :D

The puts are usually expressed in negative delta and the converse with calls.

Which fraternity did you join while in school? Are you still active? Are there any here of the Minerva ilk? I joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon '97, not currently very active. THE TRUE GENTLEMAN is the man whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety and whose...

I've probably posted too much already as their rates are not published. Anyone interested PM me for details.

Lol, oops, never know with guys like you and sle. actually, if you do significant volume, they can quote you up to 500k/mo. you can pay $.35 per. some index option fees may apply. Here's a snippet of what they offer: Financial Engineering » * Statistical correlations * Option...

Here goes...

If you do 100k contracts/ month you will pay $0.40 to $0.425 with Simplex leveraged trading. you use an institutional front end develped by thinkorswim with superior analytics and fills. $0 front end or remote fees. They have rediculous apps and algos for whatever you need, all fully...

At least that'll liven the place up. That place is like a library during trading hours. :eek: