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How much does an individual trader need to have to count as institutional?

"“The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improve it by 1 percent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together." Dave Brailsford on the importance on small marginal gains. What can...

Bought a Huawei Matebook 14 last week exclusively for TWS trading and love it.

How are your margin rates compared to IBKR and do you pass through rebates when providing liquidity?

Which synthetic structures in particular?

The bad news is that if it's not exercised, your fierceness will turn to bitterness, and you will become an intellectual playground bully: the grumpy sysadmin, the forum troll, the hater, the shooter down of new ideas." source: http://www.paulgraham.com/fn.html

So much testosterone...chill everyone! Here is my honest advice to the OP. Go away, get your 3 levels of CFA and obsess about understanding businesses. Options are just a mean to invest or hedge and nothing else. Too many guys on this forum obsess about the wrong things like option voodoo...

I am (humbly) worth more but am very wary of what I don't know.

Just an acquaintance to me, nothing more. He is a bit full of himself though I have to say but my dad likes him.

Partly, but then why waste your time with sparrows?

Maybe...we are all sparrows and eagles in our own way I guess. But I am with Nassim T. (a family friend) on this one: he is always doubtful and questions himself everyday.

Would you say you are more comfortable when surrounded by yesmen/disciples or people challenging your line of thinking in the hope of helping you?

Ask for a 1 yr chart and (try to) tie it up to his daily/monthly p+l claims. You wonder what anyone who has nothing left to learn is doing on this forum on the other hand...

Most vol. traders mostly take directional betas in various form, and keep a look out for the seldom arb. opportunities that popup every now and then. You could replicate most of their performance and risk by going/long short the vix to start with. Whether it is a valuable investment of your...

Apply for an internship at a vol. trading desk.

Very crudely actually. Maintenance margin is what we are talking about here so I check it out it every morning when premarket vol is flat/low and monitor constantly when vol jumps. So today my maintenance margin is about 2/3rd of net liquidation value. If I feel that a large OTM position is...

What is the margin requirement per $m borrowed from an SPY box roughly?

Not to barge in on this thread, I have created a fresh one to specifically debate box spreads at Schwab. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/has-anyone-tried-to-borrow-from-a-box-spread-with-schwab.359127/

This is looking very interesting: IBKR is a no go for this - but I wonder if anyone has first hand experience doing something like that at Schwab?

But the risk of IBKR selling of legs of the box and leaving you naked is real, right? Any experience doing this at Schwab?