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They don't do margin calls, they just liquidate. I have frequently had liquidations at the end of the day when margin switches from 4x to 2x, but I have never had an intraday liquidation. I believe that if your account equity drops below the maintenance margin requirement (on the right side of...

stenevang and agrau, Thanks for the input, I have been out of touch for a few days. I'll check out your recommendations. Thanks again.

Thanks, I got it and unzipped it. It looks like I have "Robo daily" and "Symbols".

abogdan, I would really appreciate the downloader. What do I need to do to get it? Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the help. I'm not looking for quotes, just a quick and easy way to download EOD prices for a lot of stocks for the past 2 or 3 years into excel so that I can study them. I will check out the links. Thanks again for the help.

I am having trouble downloading historical data into Excel in an efficient manner. I would like to download EOD prices for a few hundred stocks for the last few years. I am familiar with using DDE in real time, and I know it is possible to import external data, but I can't find a way to do it...

Thanks for the suggestion. I think this is a good chart: http://stockcharts.com/charts/carpet.html I just wish they had more historical data. Other than that it seems pretty good. Good luck with your project, I would be interested in seeing what you do (I don't have any real programming...

I have been out of touch for a while, and could use some recommendations. I am looking for a vendor or provider that offers custom heat maps. I would like to be able to enter my own set of stocks and vary the number of days used to create the chart. Intra-day is not necessary as long as I can...

Options expire on the third Friday of the month, so tomorrow there will be a lot of options that expire. All options that expire in January of 2004 will expire tomorrow. Every month there is one day when options purchased that day will expire that day. That is for equity and index options in...

I was actually buying a straddle and then buying or selling the stock when it had moved far enough to cover the cost of the straddle plus a small profit. At this point I had a risk free put or call. If the stock price moved back to the strike price, I would cover and own a risk free straddle...

About the only way I learn anything is by trying it, so I put a few of these positions on to see how this strategy would work in real time. I thought I would post my results in case anyone was interested. I decided to put on three or four positions of just one contract each, and open a new...

I find this interesting and not too surprising. How long have you been using this reversal technique? Are you concerned that you may eventually suffer a loss that will be larger than your cumulative profits? What time frame do you trade - are you holding some of these large positions...

Thank you Lescor.

Could someone confirm that I have correctly understood the dividend on PEG? I am of the understanding that PEG is paying an annual dividend of 2.16, and that tomorrow is ex-dividend for .54 of that dividend. So, if I purchase PEG before the close today, I will receive the .54 dividend at a...

def, Thanks for the response, it is the cash limit in particular that I am concerned about. While I am often using margin, there are times when I have cash in my account that would not be covered by sipc. I believed I was protected with the old insurance, but this new policy seems to leave...

Some others have joked about the aggregate limit, but my concern is that this limit applies to IB's aggregate limit. It appears to me that each investor has a limit of 29.5 million, and Lloyd's will pay no more that 150 million on the policy. If IB has 5 clients with 30 million, that would max...

GATrader, Thanks for the suggestion and input, I will try to find the book. Maybe it will help clear up my confusion about gamma trading.

Riskarb, Thanks for the input. I have been reading about gamma trading on this board, but I'm not completely clear on the actual logistics of this type of trading. I also don't know what a sigma is. If you would like to explain the details of what you do, I would be very interested. I may...

With the big Nas stocks I agree that you won't see much slippage at all. With NYSE stocks it could be a different story. Most of the listed stocks I trade aren't the huge ones, so I'm not sure about them. In the less than huge NYSE stocks, the specialist will frequently post "fake"...

Hello Dollars, Would you mind elaborating on how you use a large number of contracts to increase your profitability? Do you enter several ICs at once with different strikes, or enter new positions as time passes, or do you leave legs open as you roll up and down, or something else? Thanks...