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Looking to grab live option quote chains into excel with minimal or no api.

It can be worth it to know if the cost of the information is low or zero.

You are more gullible than I. I’m always suspicious of special situations letters that don’t offer free trials. This particular one has too many garden variety merger arbitrages, penny stocks and Chinese-listed crap.

The service isn’t worth their high fee.

Teaser idea - we have recently published an interesting capital structure arbitrage opportunity. 36% spread is outstanding and borrow is available on IB. The expiration date is set for the 20th of November, so the timeline is quite short. Management seems highly incentivized to proceed and has...

Or am I missing something? StreetSmart just won’t load.

CME says KW trades in 1/8th ticks for $6.25. But when I trade it at Schwab I am only given 1/4 cent quote options, such as 536.00, 536.25, 536.75. So, If I scalp a tick is it two-eights? If so, where does one see a one-eighths tick?

Wondering if there is a free or cheap site/service that would answer questions like what is the largest one day, five day or 30 day drawdown in a front month wheat contract in the past 50 years.

Tks

I’ve come across this term in a few places recently. How do they differ from ordinary calendar spreads?

Thanks for checking.

Expiring Friday

Ok, as of right now Schwab is hitting me for 21,639.80 margin for selling 1 Es c 3580 and 1 Es C 3525.

Ok, here’s what I did, just as a test I told a three percent OTM ES call expiring tomorrow. I was told the margin would be $13,000. When I asked if that was SPAN margin, I was told, after a couple or phone transfers, that they take SPAN And add some Special Schwab risk parameters. Thus, I think...

Funny how Palm Beach is a trading hub while Palm Springs appears to be the antithesis. Maybe I should move to Vegas.

Anyone trade futures with Schwab? ThinkIng about plopping 150k into an account, if that will get me SPAN. If it does, caveats? Thinking about far out of the money ES options. Anyone know off hand what that might go for per contract?

Done it since 2015, hedged out the sharp rises, took some losses but shorted more when it was over 40 to 60, with hedges. Been trading since 81, by the way. I always close around the time of a reverse split and I’m wondering if tactically that’s a good thing or not. Getting called away by the...

Yes, lots of allocation and risk issues involved, many not mentioned in this thread. But aside from all that, I was wondering about those short positions that reverse and reverse and reverse split, and if never closing the position is a nice delay of capital gains.

Yes long call.

10, maybe 20 percent with a far out of the money short call as a black swan/disaster hedge.