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they are the same at regular options and exchange cleared on the occ. buying and selling same as regular options.

you could short the major banks like TD bank or bank of nova scotia. here's an article re an HF manager doing this http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/meet-the-man-whos-selling-canada-short/article11585150/ here's one from the ira sohn conference...

check the website of the company or call them.

+1 on the high minimum account size. i'd suggest looking into a mini prime broker that might have better relationships and more pull to be able to get you an ISDA agreement which is required in order to trade them. read michael lewis' the big short and about cornwall capital for their story...

congrats. i strongly suggest backing up everything immediately tonight. for ex, you could back up your digital files in goog (email or drive programs) or dropbox or any one of the many free cloud providers. i'd def set a restore point on to revert back to in case some update messes things up.

i have no idea either. i mean it wasn't like it was a 25 pip gap move. looking at a small tick chart (233 or 333) it was just a bunch of red bars going down in a controlled manner. in general you should always check out forex factory for upcoming econ releases that could effect any pair you...

would booting in safe mode help? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/start-your-computer-in-safe-mode

you don't need to do anything. there is no risk unless they are close to ATM. for ex, say you're long a front month spy 100 put w/ the spy at 100.01 at 3:59:59 EST. you figure you don't need to do anything. the next second it falls to ITM and the option is automatically exercised. You are now...

one more thing...given the above it's really only good to use them when rates are high and you can earn a significant amount of interest. for ex, $1 million USD earns $50k a year w/ rates at 5%. given the current and projected outlook by the fed, i think it'll be 2145 before we see rates that...

i'd suggest looking into the mini prime brokers. merlin was acquired by wfc and is considered the best by many.

this is an asymmetric trade b/c everyone expects a rate cut but i don't think it's a done deal. obviously don't place a trade ahead of time just wait until after and ride the trend.

yes

AFAIK you can turn off all messages or none but not the DING. not to be a wise ass but you could turn off the volume on your comp if the ding is that much of a prob but then you'd miss the sound of your executions.

pls do NOT buy and hold any leveraged ETFs for longer than a day due to the prob w/ compounding (use a goog search for the prob). leveraged etfs only work when there is a strong trend w/ no retraces at all. you can use a 20 dma to stay w/ the trend however when the feds in their infinite...

TOS (now TDA) is IMHO the best options platform however even after negotiating fees you're still paying more than IB or other brokers (lightspeed, OH eoption although i'm def not rec the latter). i've never heard of anyone getting TOS to go below $1 per car w/ no trade ticket fee. another...

i agree the abn amro stunt is ridiculous. however AFAIK this has never happened using CME GC futures. also you can look into sprott physical gold backed etfs.

AFAIK there is no yen index. if i want to trade a specific currency and i don't want spot i'll use CME forex futures. there is plenty of liquidity in the major pairs (eur, gbp, jpy, chf, aud).

+1 w/ the usual caveat to just watch price. if oil goes to $50 you can be sure there is another financial crisis in which case you should be hedging against complete disaster not just oil.

no i was just saying.

usually the best source is the companies' own website. if you have access to bloomberg/reuters obvs that's better.