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I get it now, must be for tax reasons (we don't have taxes on stocks on my country) still think you should do it with futures as far as i know clean and simple and low margin costs. real delta neutral with options makes no sense unless you want to adjust all the time ...

i don't get it why do you want to get delta-neutral this way? The best way for you to get delta-neutral is to sell it all ... It makes no sense to use options for this unless you got a good view on volatility of the options which makes no sense at all considering your original question ...

very

have you any idea how stupid you sound to other people ? ? ?

it's more like 1.5% each month, so this 10% a month is simply ridiculous.

you can't adjust leverage

dividends

it can be done, problem is you won't be alone

where do you get this nonsense ... ? ? ? it's like I stated idealpro is real conversion

it does not matter if you use ideal or idealpro it gets converted either way ... only with idealpro the amounts have to be bigger but the spreads are better ... so if you can use idealpro you should ...

and i forgot one more thing: option prices are no certainty, if you estimate your vol wrongly, your vega will cost you lots and lots of money. Vice versa: it's not because you make money that the mm is losing money ...

well someone explained it allready: they move in unison and the 35 pip premium is caused by intrest-rate differentials over the remaining period the future will exist, it changes on day to day basis, just as it would if you held a forex position overnight, only futures will be cheaper to do it...

you have no clue what you are talking about ...

it's much more complicated then just taking the spread: most options are not that liquid so you have to deltahedge, which makes no edge if there is a spread like 1 cent when you take costs into account ...

a lot of the times you don't seem to get filled on idealpro orders in the papertrader, never had any complaints with the life one ...

I see no reason not to trade them if you want to, normally if they get out of line there should be a quick arbitrage, you should have decent quotes in other words.

what kind of moron are you ? ? ? ? You want a position long term, you buy the nearest contract and roll over, you pay the cost for rolling over if you are long, you get paid if you are short unless there is backwardation then it's vice versa. At least do some work yourself, this is plain and...

How on earth is this possible, how many contracts can you write far out-of-the-money with 3000 as margin: maybe three or four on a normal stock, for which you will receive in total something like 200 USD a month if they expire worthless. This is a total bs story.

because he will blow up, it's just a matter of time ...

don't think IB is a bucket shop retail operation