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The problem with most of these short premium "income" strategies is that people want to set these trades up and leave it alone. Collecting the "income" every month and blame the strategy when they lose! I trade strategies like butterflies and calendars every month in a portfolio. I dont like the...

I am not an excel programmer at all but I downloaded the IB API because I wanted to have a spreadsheet with real time option quotes to do some calculations. Everything I wanted to do works fine I only have 1 problem and that is everytime I close the excel DDE and open it again and than add a...

Hi guys, I would like to know if there is a good option front end platform for IB. Something like the risk analyzer in TOS because the risk analysis software from IB is just afwul in my opinion. Thanks in advance.

The problem with selling OTM puts is not the risk but the risk/reward. You say well but if I am assigned on those puts I dont mind because at that price level I am willing to hold those shares in my portfolio. But what if for example the company comes out with some news and the stock gaps 50 %...

I think you meant hedging Vega risk?

All I can do is speak for Euronext Amsterdam because that is where I traded. Bid-ask spreads were 50 cents wide and now on the screen 5 to 10 cents. Now all prices are in line ( centered around the theoretical value), back than if the paper was buying calls and selling puts we raised our quotes...