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Mav, this whole subject started with reference to options haircut so your mention of pairs etc, is pointless. A little advice son, you shouldn't talk down to someone if you want their business: "you guys did not pass the muster test", "you are not correct there", etc. Since you replied to one...

Oh Mav, you seem like a nice guy who gives people here useful information but you may be in over your head on this one. You should be more careful when you use the word certainly. I did not state opinion I stated fact. I offered to bring Don several accounts totaling well over 7 figures and...

Since I have not talked to every JBO in existence I will admit I was generalizing but since Bright, ECHO, and Generic all make you cover the JBO haircut I figured it was at least a relatively accurate one.

IV, For you to say "there is no max loss consideration" and "not the same case with retail" you are clearly confusing two things: the margin requirement of one specific broker (IB in this case) and the minimum margin allowed by Portfolio Margin. As a matter of fact, PM is less restrictive...

I'm not really sure what you are saying, but there is no such thing as PM "recognizing" something or not. PM is simply allowing the retail trader to have access to minimum margins like a floor trader via the OCC's TIMS system. The PM requirement for a short calendar is just the max loss the...

Man that was hard to hold, I finally got out of my recent longs from the mid twenties. If we get through here new highs seem likely but the bonds are starting to worry me so I want to be flat for the weekend. I would just like to extend my thanks to all those who post useful information...

I think he is just pointing out that it seems counterintuitive to have your stop twice as far as your profit target. You have to have a really high win rate for that to work out statistically. I wouldn't mind hearing your rationale for it.

Why would you be looking for options quotes on Yahoo? Your broker's software should have everything you need, or you need a new broker. The symbol is ^VIX on Yahoo. I am guessing you are not that familiar with VIX options. They are definitely not the place to start your options education...

I have had the privilege to work with some exceptionally good and consistently profitable traders. As far as I know not one of them ever looks at this website, and some even made the firm they trade through sign a confidentiality agreement to not divulge anything about their trading. So to...

I asked a few days ago and was told they are currently testing it and it should be any day now. I am not holding my breath, but I am hoping it will be soon.

What's up with not including options? We get no respect. If I didn't trade options how would my wife's credit card bill get paid?

Wow that's not a loaded question or anything. You will get an answer to that the day after never. While you're at it could he also tell us the "correct" religion and the "correct" unified theory of the universe? These discussions become much more about semantics than anything else. An...

If I may ask, what is your stop point on being short, and does it just have to trade there or close there?

nice call

FT79, Just curious, what return on investment are you shooting for on your naked short ES strangles? Obviously months with no adjustment do better than having to trade a lot but I was wondering, on average, what returns you are trying to achieve. I would assume you would measure it by average...

What is the logic of a brokerage firm charging excessive margin for SPX options, while letting you do the equivalent trade with ES options under SPAN's low margin?

Well this is not a very useful thread since no one had laid out the mathematical mechanics of this new change. I see nothing different on their web page and the explanation ids gave was useless; it sounds like there is no point of PM at IB. I still can't understand why people on this site...

I nominate this for the most optimistic thing ever written on ET.

The question is delta: theoretical price, and the answer is A. I have already taken and passed the test. Delta measures the change in the theoretical price of an option in relation to a change in the underlying price. Gamma measures the change in the delta of an option in relation to a change...

Putting together a group to start your own office or subgroup of one of the good pro/prop firms is not a bad idea but starting your own is not at all realistic. Apart from simple things like legal, accounting, and back office costs you simply will never do anywhere near enough volume to make it...