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No, this isn't the case. Shares and options are different things. In options trading a contract is a bag of usually 100 options. So I stand by what I wrote.

This board and the whole site is IMO degenerated to an IB ads board.

The OP asked what the difference is between options and contracts, and I said: "Simple: options are traded as contracts, a contract usually consists of 100 options... So it makes a big difference... :-)" What's wrong with what I said? Come on and explain it! Or are you trying to badmouth...

Your understanding is poor. It's all part of their evil plan...

Simple: options are traded as contracts, a contract usually consists of 100 options... So it makes a big difference... :-)

I wouldn't recommend trading stocks with such a small capital because you can't make any significant profits with it b/c commission would eat it all up (ok, it depends on the broker etc.) Instead my advise would be the following: since you know what you can afford to risk (ie. your said 300...

There is a simple answer to that: the government tries to prevent the collapse, for this the govt needs money, ie. must make debt. And regarding health care: one wonders why some circles are against it when there are about 50 million Americans don't have any health care, because they can't...

My understanding, from what I read from between the lines of the news, is that there are some migthy & greedy circles out there, especially Goldman Sachs, who plan for the collapse of the US, if not more, and of course at the same time bet for the collapse of the US (via Put options or short...

An interesting New York Times article about the dirty practices of Goldman Sachs: http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/108476/banks-bundled-bad-debt-bet-against-it-and-won

Is that really per option, isn't it rather per contract? :-)

The "fuckwit" is you paid idiots of IB here with several aliases supporting yourself with your other alias... shame on you IB !

cry louder idi! :-)

This is to inform the readers of my journal (yes there have been some :-) that due to some problems here (guess what :-) I've moved my journal to this adress: http://www.trade2win.com/boards/trading-journals/82390-journal-trader-um-aka-traderum-using-demo-acct.html (to be correct, I'm...

If you mean their SMART routing... well... it's not that smart :-) SMART means IMHO: you give IB the permission to take the route IB likes for your order, something you probably didn't wanted/intended and probably should not do b/c many times you pay very high commissions when IB chooses the...

Really, I don't understand people who use EOD data for backtesting. IMO one should use bar data of 10 min or shorter. Using EOD is very misleading. Ok, I know it's not easy to get free data shorter than EOD :-( EOD data is maybe good for creating some lists etc, but IMHO it's not good for...

Just try a search-engine, for example www.google.com Supply (sellers) and Demand (buyers), and the Market Maker (MM) between them. That is: the offers of sellers and buyers. A trade happens only if both sides agree on a common price, ie. seller and buyer both offer the same price, until then...

Hmm. it's been long ago when I played with the same formula, but my program gives for the same param: Call=Put=6.47725 for RFIR=50%, and Call=Put=2.80501 for RFIR=1%. (But I use 253 days/year. This is mostly the source for the differences as some do use 360 or 365 days etc...) Sorry...

Hey mod, what happened to the rest of my journal? The following postings are missing (the given times are in CET): traderum 12-20-09 03:59 PM NihabaAshi 12-20-09 04:26 PM traderum 12-20-09 05:38 PM heech 12-21-09 01:16 AM traderum 12-21-09 04:16 AM traderum 12-21-09 04:29 AM...

Datek was a good broker (anyone remember them? :-) They didn't trade against their own customers, they only provided a direct access to the markets with cheap commissions. Then Ameritrade bought them and things got bad. Then Ameritrade was bought by TD and things got worse. Dunno how the...

I closed both positions with a profit: Underlying SecurityType Expiry Strike Put/Call Action Quantity Price Time Date Exch. CBY OPT JAN10 60 Put SLD 21 10.55 04:07:37 20091221 ISE CBY OPT JAN10 60 Put SLD 9 10.5 04:07:38 20091221 ISE CBY OPT JAN10 45 Call BOT 35 8 04:07:48 20091221 ISE...