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It won't work because you are taking unlimited risk that the stock will run away from you in either direction, maybe your broker doesnt allow this?

Hey guys, just wondering what type of commissions rates do you get? OptionsHouse is 12.50 per spread order and .15 for each additional contract...this seems pretty economical. Or it can be 8.50 per option order plus .15 per additional contract.

Hi, does anyone have a list of relatively high volume ETFs that they trade? Ticker and name is good. Leveraged is fine.

Hey Robert, I just checked, I trade through Optionshouse.com and the exchanges were a variety, such as... phlx cboe amex ise

Hey guys, here's an update on my options trades with relatively wide bid/asks: 33% got a fill at the midpoint of the bid/ask, betwe. secs to hours 33% had to move closer to the ask, slightly below it 33% no fill or the trade moved away from me

Why would AAPL be dropping on Tuesday? Just because the are coming out with news? My chart shows bullish, still.

Thanks, the variation is far below 1% for the past 30 days, works for me.

I want to make sure that if I place a 2-4 week trade in oil, the ETF will reflect what my projections for the price will be.

Does USO strictly track the price of oil for example 1% move in oil corresponds to 1% up in USO, right? Or am I missing something? Anyone do a regression analysis? Also, what about OIL, does that track the price of oil directly?

I have some distributions for my strategy, theoretically, if I have a big series of winners I could be in the billions (of course that's not counting slippage and size problems that would hold the strategy back). If I have a string of losers, then I could end up below $1000. I think the site...

Hey guys, lets say that you are holding front month at the money call option on a $50 NYSE stock during market hours worth $2. The stock moves to $50.75. How quickly will the options reprice to reflect the extra $.75? Minutes, seconds, hours, or possibly never? Just wondering how quickly options...

Hey Don, thanks for the response. What I've noticed is that I did get executed in between bid/ask on spreads but not on the flys. I wonder if a market maker has to handle flys differently than the spreads?

Hi sir, in order to avoid pin risk, I'd just have to sell the options back to the MM and eat the cost of that spread, correct?

I didn't get involved here either because it had already taken a massive nosedive, plus uve got oil on an uptrend.

Lets say you have a butterfly spread (bull) and the strikes are 45/55/65. The stock price reaches 55 and you'd like to get the $5 profit but it still has 2 weeks to expiration, can you just execute and sell/buy the options so that it doesn't move away from the $55?

Hey guys what sites have a good list of trending stocks with proven backtesting?

I would be an elite trader except that I watch all my options orders just sit there not getting executed.

Hey guys, do you get fills on wide bid/ask options spreads or no where do you get the fills? I.E', must you take the bid ask or do you get something better. Just wondering.

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Whats your biggest options trade in % returns? What was the setup?