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ITM options have a greater chance of getting assigned early, but you can only exercise your options once, unless you mean exercising only a portion of them at a time.

Hey, I got no reason not to believe you! It seems that the industry is going to cents anyway.

OK, I just checked with my broker and looked on the BOX website and I can neither agree nor disagree, but then again, as far as I know you cannot do that, but if you say you can then I'm not gonna argue with you. By the way, my broker specializes in options and most of the people there are...

I just tried with my broker and it got rejected. That's the first time I hear you can do that. I might be wrong though.

Actually, you cannot enter limit orders at 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, you can only enter order in 0.05 increments, however, if you enter a limit buy order at the ask and route it to BOX then your order may qualify for price improvement and you can get a fill like 2.16, 2.17, 2.18 or 2.19 or 2.20 if none...

yes, they do trade in 0.05 up to 3.00 so you can definitely put in a limit at 2.15.

Authority on rates :D

Basically, it means selling (writing) a call and a put with the same strike price and expiry date. Your maximum profit is the amount you receive for the sale of the call and put and your maximum potential loss is, well, infinity. Anyone recommending selling a straddle to someone who doesn't...

Check out the Options section under Books tab on this site. In particular: - Option Volatility & Pricing - The Option Trader Handbook : Strategies and Trade Adjustments

Yes, you are correct the max 2.5 is because of the distance between the wing and the body. With regards to the stock expiring at 26, there're a few things you can do. Basically, since you'll end up short 100 shares after expiry, because one of the 25 calls will be offset by the 22.5 call, yet...

If the stock is at 26 then the butterfly with short body will be worth 1.5 (the 22.5 call is @ 26-22.5=3.5 less 2 25 calls @ 26-25=1*2). So your loss is 0.2. If you are neutral and believe the stock will end up at 25 then you should sell the body as buying the body would result in a loss if...

Options are options, so any good book on options should do the job. There're a few subtle differences between equity/index options and options on futures, which you can learn after you know the basics, but the principles are the same.

There's a bit of a contradiction in your post, first you say that only successful stock traders should trade options yet then you say that successful stock traders should stay away from options anyway. So, by your reasoning, no one would ever become an option trader as you need to be a...

What's IGindex? Those are prolly OTC options. I'm sure you can find some OTC dailys, but that's a somewhat different story. Nevermind, got it. Yup, those are OTC.

I'm the winner!!!!:D No, no such thing, yet! Why do you ask anyway? I mean, how did you arrive at those? Just curios.

Don't know coach, but that was my first thought - options that list and expiry in the same day.

Technically, you're buying a butterfly or selling an Iron butterfly. The two are identical anyway.

Daily!? As in 1 day options? I don't think those exist, well, at least not in the US. Australia does have 1 day options on the main index though.

The leverage effect. Production costs are fixed so the full amount of gold price rise adds to profits. For example, say a miner has a cost of $100 per oz. At $300 gold price the profit is $200. At $500 the profit is $400. .....

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