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Timcar, What are you looking for, overnight or intraday leverage? There seems to be some confusion with all the numbers being thrown around.

Everything is negotiable, if you think you need more leverage overnight then call them up and explain what you want to do and why there is little if any chance of you blowing out. If you wanted to go max leverage overnight all in DNDN then that is crazy. If you want more leverage and you have...

Nice call today APEX, but you must be losing your touch, you missed the bottom of that move by a whole 25 cents. FWIW, for the first time since this sell off began the market is rallying without the bond yields rising. The bonds and the market are not usually so closely correlated for short...

I mean no offense but do you know anything about the markets, options, realistic and sustainable risk/reward ratios? What kind of average annual return do you hope someone can make you after all costs and fees?

I was referring to the purview of the SEC not CFTC. "In the U.S., laws require that the majority of investors in the fund be accredited. That is, they must earn a minimum amount of money annually and have a net worth of over $1 million, along with a significant amount of investment...

Not sure if this is what you need but it has the data: http://www.optionsclearing.com/market/volume/volbyproduct_form.jsp

It is not legal for someone to charge a percentage of profits to a non-accredited investor. Every state is different but most require anyone charging for investment advice to register with them. If this person is charging people now and is not registered please report them to the NASD, SEC...

Who is he registered with? How is he compensated? Are you and everyone else with him "accredited investors"?

I don't have an IB account but I understand they allow you to post penny increments in many underlyings. As to the SEC pilot program, the link below has a list of 13: http://www.iseoptions.com/legal/penny_pilot.asp

AZD, Portfolio Margin is a change in the rules that gives the retail broker the right to charge you the same haircut requirement as an option market maker. As we have seen from IB already, they are making you cover more than the minimum and have concentration limits. For specifics I would...

It's called portfolio margin and it's been available at IB for over a month and TOS is adding it now. You could have been doing it at prop firm before this.

If that is how you figure it, then how do you calculate it if you happen to have a losing year? You would get a negative percentage which doesn't really tell you much. By your formula if you are a good (very profitable) trader then no matter what you pay in commissions your ratio is low, but...

Don't quote me, but if you call them you will find out that is not a big deal. Your rates won't change.

95 cents actually Ex rates #2, it's only .95/contract no other fees or charges. You just have to trade more than 20 contracts at a time.

That seems crazy to me, are you daytrading options?

agreed

rickf, No offense, but you are asking basic questions about a very complex subject. It's great that you are starting with paper trading and not throwing your money away, but you need to be doing serious study if you ever want to trade options. There are many answers to your question but it...

Is this another one of your paper trades, or a real trade? Is this with or without stock or any other option position? You think selling puts will "repair" a long call? That would be like throwing yourself off a cliff to repair a broken bone.

OK last post on the subject then you can go back to gambling on SBUX calls. The original poster was apparently unaware of automatic exercise of options that are in the money by predetermined amounts. So he asked "Who gets the shares on the cheap when someone doesn't exercise them?" to which...

Of course, but the question asked what happens if the calls are NOT exercised, say if they are only in the money by 4 cents.