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its a trade-off here and the result will stay the same (a big move will result in a big loss, only less so, but then there will also be less theta to gain), so i see no gain in using a butterfly.

basically, the big risk lies in the fact that a big move does happen over the long weekend and you get caught short gamma, resulting in a big delta position on the opening on tuesday erasing all your gains from your theta. In other words, if the market moves big you get killed.

don't forget also, friday is the day before the weekend, so you have to take into account extra time-decay.

technically options expire on saterday ! It can make a difference, lots of options mm in Amsterdam exercised their out-of-the momey puts in october 1987 when they saw the US close so badly on friday.

think this is the first thing that comes up with everybody who is used to watching charts so harrytrader try to give us the log-scaled chart, it would put things in a better perspective.

its calculated in the futures, but also here the broker takes a spread, whereas this does not happen with futures.

I have been trying to get into their demo now for more then an hour, but i cant get in, dont know about the real thing ...

volume does not equal best fills in options, i have traded hundredthousands options electronically and several ten thousands floor traded. Once you have had electronic trading you never want to go back if possible. Liffe never used to be really big for options LTOM was a disaster at the time...

and why would that be, you obviously dont know much about trading seeing your track record in questions .... all electronic options markets provide better quotes then floor traded options, wysiwyg in eletronic markets. And Eurex and Liffe dont have pits anymore. I'm starting to hate all these...

I'm sure your phone is crash-proof, i just hope they dont put you on hold ... :D

your forex brokers platform can crash too ....

just trade forex-futures !

If you think an extra pip or two is nothing to worry about, then you dont understand the essence of trading imo. Sorry to say so, but never have i seen any professionel trader say that.

You have lots of questions though not all of them can be answered just like that, and it depends on your broker. 1) I use IB, pay 2.4 per contract so that makes 4.80 rt. I use quotetracker with a link to get my futureschart (costs you nothing). For the spot I use one of the demo's of an...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from dnaj65000: I understand and currently trade the spot FX market. Whenever I try to read up on the futures side of things, I can't find a decent FAQ. Please be so kind to answer these questions for me...

Any option market maker can tell you that rho is about the last Greek he cares about for normal equity options.

are you insane or do you just have too much money in your account ? if the last one is true please just send it to me.

Hmmmm, you could have easily founnd the answers to all this at cme.com. So for more info: http://www.cme.com/prd/overview_EC2465.html 1) underlying = 125000 USD 2) margin: initial 2498 maint 1850 overnight; with IB from 2:20 PM CET to 8:45 PM CET you need half of this. (i dont know where you...

ok, i got now what you mean, in fact were doing the same, just getting there in a different way.

I think we are just misunderstanding each other here, when i look at the other thread this is just what i meant, only i made this version up in percentage terms and probably could have explained it a bit better. Still not too sure about your running valley concept ...