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That's how it was in the nat gas & crude oil options pit - locals and market makers would trade with each other all the time, in addition to the paper brokers and other firms. Good times.

The profit or loss on that one option position will be affected by the difference between the original buy or sell price vs its fair value at expiration (as you mentioned), and the profit or loss on the futures hedges the trader did while the position was open (assuming the trader did futures...

I was an option market maker in the crude oil & natural gas options pit on the NYMEX for many years. The "locals" - guys who work for themselves (as I did) or very small proprietary firms (as I did), use their trading sheets to tell them the fair value of each option at that very moment in time...

I usually use futuresource.com to find the days to expiration for futures options, but sometimes their info comes up blank. Anyone know of another website that gives days to expiration for futures options contracts? Thanks.

I got my problem fixed! I used the superantispyware app. to get the job done, although it took 2 tries. Will all those spyware apps. work together at the same time? Don't they all run in the background? Thanks again.

This is a great and useful thread. Thanks for all who posted. One of my "internet surfing" computers just got hit with the trjoan.zlob virus and I can't seem to get rid of it. I have Norton but it only partially removes the threat. It has hijacked my internet explorer browser so I can't...

Is shareholder approval ever needed to get these deals done? Or does the board have that ultimate authority to make these decisions?

Thanks. I will send you a PM so please look for it. In the meantime, are you saying that even though I'm requesting the front-month only for a futures option chain, the server downloads all the months together? That, I guess, would put me over the symbol limit on some contracts. Why is...

Anyone using eSignal's futures options chains and finding that they are not receiving streaming realtime data even though you're paying realtime data fees to the futures exchanges? This is a problem that has been going on for months and esignal is not giving out any kind of fix for it...

IB, Any update on getting NYMEX energy options?

My positions include stock, stock options, futures, futures options, ETFS, ETF options. No bonds though. Thanks.

Thanks again. Your margin "thingie" could be good for everyone. You could post it on the " commercial tools" part of the website. Btw, I don't know how to code, so I'll just have to rely on my best guess as to which positions are using the most margin.

Thanks, but I want to see it in realtime during the day. Any way to do it?

While I'm on hold for an IB rep, does anyone know how to breakdown the overall margin requirement that IB displays into a margin amount per position? I'm trying to decipher how much margin each of my positions is creating. Thanks in advance.

Thanks again gnome. I'll see what I can find out there. It seems that ATI Radeon 256 mb cards might work for me

Pardon my ignorance, but what's 285 & 280 mean?

Here's the stats on my pc available slots I have 1 PCI-E x16 - available 1 PCI-E x1 available & 1 PCI available The other PCI slot is taken up by a wireless nic card What/which video cards can go into what/which slots? Thanks

What about a video splitter? Sort of like a router but it has up to 8 ports for muliple monitors. Is this only good for displaying the same image on all the monitors, or can you put different images on each monitor...

Hmmm, well I'll see what I can do. Wondering if I ordered the wrong kind of system....

I think its PCI-E. I just bought a new Dell slim model with the video card on the motherboard so there's a few slots to add new video cards. I think there's a PCIx16 and another PCI slot. Does that help you? I just need to be able to add 3 more monitors on top of the default one on the agp...