Search results

You are crazy. Not for taking the profit when it works, but rather for being unhedged with a short - what if the underlying has a big move before you establish the long - and now it's ten or twenty points against you? Of course, it's a very rare event, but yes you are crazy.

100% of the time.

It's a very difficult position to hedge unless your stock holds a significant weight of the ETF and past correlation holds. You are basically laying out a situation where hedging simply may be ineffective. We trade a similar position in our shop and we've tested various hedging instrument with...

Sort of a truncated answer, but tons. Pretty much every money center. Everything from individual investor conferences to quantitative conferences. The annual Options Industry conference is going on in Miami now. Really depends on your budget and what market(s) you want to reach. London...

Is the question your asking as to the mindset of the other side of the trade. The trade is rarely a customer cross and your contra party is most likely to be a market maker who has an appetite to trade and will most likely add the position to their inventory. They then macro hedge their book...

Trade Alert is presenting this at the Industry Conference in Miami

Say Goodbye to the Order Protection Rule? Traders Magazine Online News, April 30, 2019 John D'Antona Jr. Are you down with OPR? OPR – the Order Protection Rule – has been depending on one’s point-of-view either a good thing when trading or not. For the institutional buy-side and brokers...

You pose an often repeated question. More size - more slippage and possibly more information value depending on the product. If your trade generates a "show" it generates institutional thought. So the answer is it all depends and a lot will be the product. If I go from 5 to 10 in the SPX no...

https://www.etf.com/sections/features-and-news/why-use-options-overlays-etfs?nopaging=1

US Securities options the auto exercise is .01. Probability does change at .02 or deeper as it's done automatically. There can be some unusual circumstances, but they are so rare I wouldn't worry.

A couple of weeks old, but it looks like it's here to stay in the near term.

Susquehanna and the Option Gods: Hiding in Plain Sight View Larger Image “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein Who are the buy-side’s smartest and most powerful players today? Alphacution is working...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-24/singapore-takes-split-second-chance-to-be-fx-hub-for-asia-s-rich

Feb just came out. I'll post March when they send it.

From Tabb - Feb #s

Didn't say it was you - too much of it on the site. Go back and read the thread in its entirety. Things get toxic too quick.

Then why continually assault them and drive them off. Which has become the prevailing tone of the board. There are plenty of other civil boards to exchange ideas on.

"I'm not sure why you think a backtesting service for options is the same as a mentoring program. Ophir offers an excellent service that I would be happy to pay for if I were still trading." What do we gain by driving people off - you as a sponsor would want as many fresh faces and not all the...