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  1. ETJ

    TradeStation's free trades till 2020 promo

    Both would qualify for Free under the Tradestation promotion or many broker "new" account promotion. Also both free on the free platforms. The fees attached would be orf and or clearing. Index options would still about 1/2 buck of exchange fees. Most of the free deals limit your routing, but...
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    Blockchain.com Launches High Speed Crypto Exchange for Retail Traders

    https://news.bitcoin.com/blockchain-com-launches-high-speed-crypto-exchange-for-retail-traders/?omhide=true&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Blockchain+com+Launches+High+Speed+Crypto+Exchange+for+Retail+Traders&utm_campaign=email-July+30%2C+2019+Daily+Newsletter
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    TradeStation's free trades till 2020 promo

    Read the fine print if you trade index options! They ain't free.
  4. ETJ

    Spx getting filled

    Generally no unless there is some disruption in the futures market - which is the common hedge for the options.
  5. ETJ

    Why are big banks cutting trading jobs in the current very long bull market?

    There was some expectation that Trump would gut it and they did mid-2018 adjustment. Fascinating reading if you have no life. Commonly called the "Volcker" rule.
  6. ETJ

    Delta? what's better?

    The answer is in the details of your expectations. You can get 50 deltas simply by buying 50 shares of stock - but 50 shares is 50 shares forever unless you adjust. Options are dynamic and in a sense self-adjusting. So the simple answer would lie in what is your expectation about price and...
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    CFTC Orders Principal of Binary Options Trading Firm to Pay $200,000 for Illegal Off-Exchange Tradin

    https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/7985-19?utm_source=govdelivery
  8. ETJ

    A bit of nostalgia - Opening day CBOE 1973

    Long closed - any guesses?
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    Robinhood stored user passwords in plain text

    Robinhood Channels SecurityRetail Banking Robinhood stored user passwords in plain text 25 July 2019 6 5 0 High-flying stock trading fintech Robinhood has warned users to change their passwords after revealing that it stored the sensitive data in plain text, rather than an encrypted format, in...
  10. ETJ

    Anyone got a Bloomberg terminal? I got something that will be worth your while.

    If you trade - ask your broker as they would most like be allowed to do some level of redistribution of the info on their terminal(s).
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    Betterment and Wealthfront revive rivalry with high-yield cash accounts

    https://www.financial-planning.com/news/betterment-robo-advisor-adds-checking-savings-accounts?utm_campaign=HybridList-Edit-in%7Cvest%20insights-jul%2025%202019&utm_medium=email&utm_source=confpromo&eid=c507b11576b768ba12c5c11df1908b18&bxid=5ada01b024c17c5047bf3018&utm_content=InVestWest18
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    10,000 American Cryptocurrency Owners Will Receive Warning Letters From the IRS

    https://news.bitcoin.com/10000-american-cryptocurrency-owners-will-receive-warning-letters-from-the-irs/?omhide=true&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=10%2C000+American+Cryptocurrency+Owners+Will+Receive+Warning+Letters+From+the+IRS&utm_campaign=email-July+27%2C+2019+Daily+Ne...
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    Bitcoin Cash-Futures Arbitrage

    Robert Emerson trueDIGITAL Follow | Profile | More Share The recent relationship between spot Bitcoin and the July expiration Bitcoin futures contract represented a large, nearly riskless arbitrage opportunity. In recent days a rather stunning arbitrage has developed in the Bitcoin...
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    How is the position value determined ? Is it based on the Bid price or Ask price or other value ?

    Traditionally longs at the bid - shorts at the ask. Some more added granularity dependent on the product.
  15. ETJ

    NYSE - Floor broker verbal interest at close

    https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/markets/nyse/rule-interpretations/2019/NYSE%20MEB%2019-03.pdf
  16. ETJ

    Tell me why averaging down is a bad idea .

    As long as your risk management is decent it's OK. Met a well-known hedge fund manager who wrote combos against his short stock ideas. The stock went higher you shorted more - stock hit your downside target the option covered your short. Lot's of devils in the details of risk management, but...
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    Bernie Maddoff may receive sentence commutation

    The DOJ shows it as pending. So they got the petition.
  18. ETJ

    CME Group - fees outrageous

    Part of the pricing key is monopoly clearing - that is the country club that keeps members out. If the CBOE hadn't opened up OCC to the other exchanges. Someday some court will crack the SPX monopolies in the same fashion as the SPY monopoly was cracked. ISE made an expensive run at it and...
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    CME Group - fees outrageous

    The CBOE 250 - anybody other than us geezers remember that?
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