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I have put in the email sent to IB on this matter, they still have not got back to me, not even an initial response. What do yourselves advise I do or should happen? Basically, I entered a sell stop limit order and a sell limit order occured. thanks in advance guys n gals of course "Dear...

lol, so which do you use? in my scans eg, TOS charts still has 200ma as resistance whereas in prophet charts , 200ma well overcome, TOS has support of freestockcharts, google and yahoo java charts, prophet charts has support of highly recommended stockcharts.com whos right?!

google charts, yahoo charts, match TOS charts, prophet charts match www.stockcharts.com, so which one should you rely on, are they all wrong?? www.stockcharts.com , is used as a reference site for many a trader for technical charts. theyre suppose to have accurate data

BRCM weekly chart

If you have an account with TOS, you can see two unmatching charts for the same underlying. In their own charts and the prophet charts they provide. (I have attached both charts), their chart is on the LHS and prophet charts on RHS. . look at TOS's own weekly chart of SPY, the 200,50, 20 moving...

BRCM weekly chart

If you have an account with TOS, you can see two unmatching charts for the same underlying. In their own charts and the prophet charts they provide. (I have attached both charts), their chart is on the LHS and prophet charts on RHS. . look at TOS's own weekly chart of SPY, the 200,50, 20...

I believe thats a reasonable return in terms of %. its 21% gross I could of just sold loads more and earn around 5x that, but increased exposure. 21% thats a fair return no?

attachment is the trade page, showing execution prices received

if look at the option chain in attachment can see discrepancies in prices received shown in 2nd attachment , is this common for spread orders? btw is it not possible to have 2 or more attachments in a post??!

I take screen shots of every trade I do, sometimes when I trade SPY options, IB executions are substandard. on my 2nd trade today where I sold 10 iron condors Nov 19th, 123 124 110 109. On the 109put leg in particular, I ended up buying it at 0.50 and 0.51 when the ask was 0.49. The iron...

thanks for response EliteThink it would be interesting to know how he traded around this period, October 08, and if he posted his trades 'live' of course anybody could claim being profitable during this period, after the event l actually sent him a private message about one of his previous...

l only recently discovered the excellent thread " SPX Credit Spread Trader" at http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=49586&perpage=6&highlight=adjusting%20credit%20spreads&pagenumber=1 started by the man himself, Phil, and hoped to see how an expert like Phil would of handled...

l only recently discovered this excellent thread started by the man himself, Phil, and hoped to see how an expert like Phil would of handled the extreme volatile period of October 08; l learned his style is to sell more call or put credit spreads if the market moves in a up or down direction...

Thanks for post(s) OddTrader and all, time frame is usually a couple of days, weekly or monthly (max) to expiration. as l said l almost always do credit vertical spreads based on candle stick charts. some might b taken aback with the short time frames, and at fraction of the premium they might...

Mark, your website is definitely of interest too. I was wrong in suggesting I'd benefit from theta decay since that is around as cheap as an option can be. The reason I'd sold the credit vertical put spread (August27 expiration) at the market price, 0.05, was the low risk. at the time, the...

l read moneyshow.com about how to profit from theta when trading options, http://www.moneyshow.com/trading/Options_Idea.asp?aid=optionsidea-20487&iid=OptionsIdea&page=2# and found it of great interest. l have just subscribed to the newsletter , options trading signals. yes you guessed it, l...

Thanks for response weewilly and MTE. MTE, are you saying margin requirement for iron condor is a 1/3 of what it is for a non PM account? l tend to leg into my iron condors, so the benefit would be realised once the full iron condor is formed on the call and put side right? how about margin...

what advantage would portfolio margin offer someone who trades mainly credit vertical spreads , eg iron condors? eg if in a credit vertical spread, and sold another further OTM credit vertical spread would the margin requirement not apply to that? please give egs of advantages portfolio...

l almost exclusively use candle charts (and dont analyze greeks ) for risk management and to set up my option trades, usually credit vertical spreads, l do look at delta, and am aware of gamma risk, when options are near expiration but otherwise dont look at the greeks, am l missing out on...