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falconview, Forget those OTC scam outfits that offer binary options, you can trade binary options listed on an exchange, just go to CBOE's website and look them up.

What you are proposing is called a long vertical call spread (aka bull call spread). You can find loads of info on this strategy on the net. Since you have an unrealized loss on the long call, selling the higher call now wouldn't give you a risk/reward ratio as good as if you were to buy the...

Leverage. The deeper ITM you go the less leverage and vice versa. And, no, traders don't necessarily want an option that follows the underlying as close as possible.

A limit order doesn't guarantee an execution. If you need to get in/out then you are forced to pay a lot in slippage.

I trade both directional and market neutral. When you trade market neutral, it doesn't mean that you don't have a view, it means that you have a view on the market trading sideways or a view on volatility. So if options allow you to express that view, why would you want to stay out!? Deep ITM...

Had the watch for more than 5 years and absolutely love it.

Even if there is, why would anyone disclose it to you or anyone else for that matter!?

See here.

I don't use IB, but in general you should be able to. 25K is for day-trading, which is a separate issue.

These are part of the penny pilot program, hence their tick size is 1 penny. Stocks that are not part of the program have regular 5/10 cent tick size.

My comment about this not being a big deal refers to the fact that this is not a new product, they just added an extra day to the existing ones.

Not a big deal, they just added an extra day to weeklys.

It's the same as for other stocks, 5 cents for options under 3.00, and 10 cents for options over 3.00.

Yes, all 3 condors (iron, call and put) are synthetic equivalents when done at the same strikes, so they are usually pretty much in line with each other. Small discrepancies may come from slightly wider/narrower bid-ask spread in one of the options and stuff like that.

The word "iron" means that you construct a condor (or any other wing spread for that matter) with puts and calls. If you use just calls or puts then it's either a call condor or a put condor. All 3 variations are synthetic equivalents of each other so there is no difference between them...

VXX and VXZ come to mind.

The simple answer is NO. Your broker doesn't really control the data feed so it can't fake it and even if it did, ES is an exchange-traded product so you can always go back and review the time&sales data and see exactly where the market was at the time and what trades took place.

As long as you stay with options you don't have to worry abour exorcisms. The term is assignment not exorcism.

I wouldn't call it "better", unless by "better" you mean that the reward/risk ratio is higher. However, don't forget that the higher the reward/risk ratio the lower the probability of profit.

The risk/reward of an iron condor depends on how far OTM you go, the further OTM the lower the premium received and the higher the risk, and vice versa.