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I asked IB Help -- but you know long it will take for them to get back to me.

How do I get a full page of lines on my portfolio page, blank ones underneath the ones with positions. Right now, it's just blank/beige under the lines with positions.

They should really hire some graphic artists or something do check over the upgrades. This one is really ugly. Looks cheap even.

Been away, logged into thelatest version and wow the ugliest I have ever seen and you can only change it a few shades of gray it seems. Worse, there are no lines where I can just click and enter a symbol for a quote or trade. It's a big beige block. How can I get something close to the old TWS...

Any good sites show correlations between various futures, like ES and NQ, for instance?

Thanks for the affirmation. I guess my fears are irrational, or left from '87 or from reading about Neiderhoffer. I do mainly ES, NQ, ER2 and selling naked puts to me just seems so much more risky that a covered call. Irrational, I guess.

Loss of rho would offset rise in vol in the put price?

Lets say underlying is @ 10. I sell a call for 1. Stock goes to zero. My downside is 9. Ok, now let's redo. I sell a put for 1 naked. Stick goes to zero from 10. I keep my 1 premium. And my put is ITM 10 pts. -- but may have a volatility of who knows what, increasing the price, right? Or not?

So the price of put cannot spike higher than the maximum loss of an indentical covered call? (Except in the interest rate scenario you describe.) What about Oct. 87, when the Vix hit 240 or something?

I know these positions are "essentially" or "almost" identical, at least that is what I often read. So, why the qualifier? Is the risk, theoretically, higher on the short put because of the volatility component, which could -- if there was a gigantic spike -- make the price (or loss) greater...

Just looking to do what I do with graph paper on a computer screen somehow. You know, plot strike, premium, underlying and then draw diagonal lines? Any software that makes this look cleaner than paper or drawing the chart from scratch in Illustrator or something?

Jeeze, and what does non-US mean? I am a US citizen but a non-resident. I live in Australia.

Three questions then, if what you say is true: 1) How do you simultaneously do a tax straddle with futures (buying and selling the same contract simultaneously) if not in two accounts? 2) Didn't the IRS just issue a new ruling on wash sales in an IRA a few months ago? 3) Would buying and selling...

But the futures (and FOs, I assume) are in a segregated account at futures brokers and (I presume) at IB, right? That leaves the question of cash, like, let's say $500,000. IB segregate or insure that? What about Futures brokers.

So, at a non-futures broker, your futures and FOs are not covered but your cash is, and at a futures broker your cash isn't but your futures and FOs are. I can't believe this is true, but it is so screwed up it must be.

And, as an aside, trust me: Whatever syndicate at Lloyd's underwrites IB, they will fight you tooth and nail and forever for every penny, if it ever came to that. I used to do work for them. It would be easier to get money out of a Florida insurer for hurricane damage -- and if you think that's...

Well, considering that I trade futures and options on futures almost as much as the stocks, et-cetera, the IB statement makes me feel a little ill at ease. Basically, there is no protection for futures or futures options. What do futures brokers use?

Thanks, but that really wasn't my (hypothetical) question

Let's I sell ES futures in a taxable account and buy them in a tax-deferred IRA. Then, I book a loss in the taxable account and a gain in the tax-deferred. Have I created a tax straddle issue that will disallow the loss in the taxable account? What if it was reversed? Would the gain be...