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I was wong about IB not offering real spread order for the Aug. 28 SPX options. I was just too early Monday so there were no bids and asks on all 3 options. I dumped my 2120/2090 put fly at bid/ask mid point today with no problem. SPX bid ask is tighter than equivalent ES.

Last year the spreads for SP500 flys using SPX options was much tighter than the spreads for Globex ES flys, but now when I try to enter an SPX fly for Aug. 28, I get no bid/mid/ask quotes but only a "limit+market" order type. I get the normal spread quotes and orders for ES futures the same...

The Tasty Trade shows on futures have good beginner information on yield curve change futures spread trading. If you can predict fed behavior, the yield curve change futres spreads are pretty good for us little guys because the market is large hedgers who can't really make directional bets...

I don't know the 10 over 2 symbols but to see the actual yield curve movement for the NOB spread on IB you need to create an untradable virtual security "TYX" - "TNX" then you can look at the yield move with the normal chart button.

The current popular conception of entanglement's origin is rather questionable because it comes from new age hippies financed by EST (Erhard Sensitivity Training) back in the 1960s and 1970s. See amusing book "How the Hippies Saved Physics" by David Kaiser. See David Bohm's philosophy (not...

Quantum computers can't exist Quantum computers are an illusion similar to middle ages chemical processes that were claimed to transmute pigs ears into gold. They are something that people wish existed because if such a a physical device with such "perfect" properties could exist it would give...

I have been posting this on other boards. For me, I would prefer to do my fundamental analysis and be a buy and hold type investor. It is not working currently. So I am trying to come up with other ideas. It seems to me that there may be a pattern in short attacks that is easy to make large...

Tasty Trade is suspicious. It is really old Chicago future traders who did not need much skill since they had a monopoly on bid/ask spreads. TT is similar by making money creating expensive options commissions to TOS (Atrade). They like spreads with a huge number of legs. Listen to comments on...

Lets use Sarao's method. I am not sure where to post this on ET. I think the US prosecutors are being insensitive in the same way they contributed to Aaron Schwatz's suicide for downloading MIT library material (probably legal). I think Sarao is pretty smart because he figured out a way to...

Strange day in EXAS land Something strange happened today with EXAS share price on OEX day just after 4 million share secondary sold as a bought deal to institutions. First EXAS was walked up about 1.50 to 28.69. Then a rumor came out saying that new Medicare (CMS) formula for pricing was...

I am trying find naked options to sell. Sadly EXAS IV is way down. AMBA is still sort of working. I m looking for more opportuniites. What I want to do is feed a list a stocks (.csv format maybe) into the TWS scanner and get a list out of ranking say by IV maybe plus some price and...

I gave up trying to trade beans. Short puts (covered short writes) retrieved about 1/3 of my loss. The market (Jan. futures) fell from 1060s to 1020s on Nov. futures expiration. People needed to make deliveries and settle so my fundamental analysis was right. I made the same mistake of...

TSLA looks like a perfect head and shoulders top to me. The 250 neck should hold as a stop. Would I short a tech high flyer? No.

I this this thread may be off the mark. Other people are beating Black by cheating. Here is the URL to a legal case in London that Phil Ivey lost:'...

... Not sure how to reply to myself , but I am obviously wrong and got stopped out today! My now small deltas in covered short puts helped a little. $10 per bushel soybeans are now seemingly record harvest lows.

Soybean futures prices (sf15) have recently risen from low 9.00 area to over 10.00 on a record crop. The prices are very strange because weather is good is US with a record a crop. Normal psychological worrying about South American drought seems contradicted by recent rains. I see the...

I am not sure if this is the right thread to ask this in. I have Oct. 31 call 231 ES wk 4 call flys that I tried to close today Oct31 +1910C, -3*1950C, +2 1970C. My timing was ok because I closed them by legging out when ESZ14 was at 1966. In theory, I have a good 10 or so percent profit. My...

The drivel on ET is amazing. See Cottle's proof that buying strangles is equilvalent 0.66 size straddles. I see the light. Only rational reponse is using the Price Driver system.

The crude (CLZ14) +84P,-2*80P,+76P flys only cost 1.04 (mid) which has an almost 3 to 1 reward to risk. CLZ options expire Nov. 17 which is about 3 weeks away. There is some volume and bid/ask spreads are narrow. I think CL could easily end near 80 after violent swings. I can't think of any...

I agree EXAS is a sure fire long term higher stock. Shorter term EXAS might be bought out for at least a 50% share price premium. Only risk is execution risk of its mail lab system just being introduced. The Mayo clinic people running it can make health care systems work so not much risk in...