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read this also: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=107583

let me guess: you have not indicated you want stops outside of normal market hours to work, 2 am EST is not normal market hours, every week or so this question pops up on ET, each time blaming IB, where it is YOU who has not read the manual. So it's not IB's fault, it's your fault ...

Are you talking normal market hours or after-hours ? this could make a difference

you can remove this problem by staying delta-neutral continously, although most retail options traders wouldn't really know how to do this.

no chance you will ever find anything in those charts it looks like you really don't know a lot about options, better read some good books first by Sheldon Natenberg and Jan Baird for example

what's the point of charting them, options are derivatives ...

if you are trading retail, go with a broker that has multiple currencies, keep your account in CAD, if you have profits in USD switch them over to CAD, if the dollar goes down, your account has more buyingpower, up your size to match that.

it's not that much, everybody learns 4 at school in belgium, I have a brother who speaks 7 languages :) one of the best ways to learn a foreign language is to read a lot ...

Read those three books which I have mentioned, mcmillan is probably the least important one to really understand options and the concept of dynamically delta-neutral hedging.

first, I don't understand Russian (4 other languages yes, but no Russian) second when I analyse an optionpositions I never look at charts with different strike prices, certainly not ones with prices at expiration. I just look at my delta, gamma, theta, rho and vega over different strike prices.

sorry but once again this is not an english sentence, I don't understand at all what you are saying all I can say is trading vol on options is not really simple, it's complicated.

It is not a strangle either.

There is a difference between having a delta-neutral INITIAL position and CONTINOUSLY hedging it. See my previous post.

Then again, like I presumed before you were not asking your question clearly, you were asking two different things. I gave an answer to your first question. You were really asking another question: 'how can I predict the direction of future vol or future implied vol' (it's even not too clear...

It's the way in which IB works and handles those changes, but I guess you are too arrogant to understand. Instead of going that route (which has been suggested to you by various posters) you prefer to go on repeating yourself ad nauseam and want everything to be done your way ...

Is what I wrote now an answer to your question ? ? ? :confused: :cool:

It's been a long time since I saw someone so arrogant as you ! Life can be simple ... Either you PAY the rather small fee ... (I doubt you filled in the questions asked when you applied with IB thruthfully so big chance you shouldn't be a costumer in the first place) Either you request...

extracting profits from a change of implied volatility is indeed very well explained in those books. in broad terms you do the following if you expect vol to rise go long vega: you do this by buying options (preferably options with a large vega) while hedging your delta continously (=...

and for what it's worth, when I was trading 10 years ago, I used to pay over 10.000 usd a year just to get real-life data ! my broker didn't provide at all.

Over 40 posts just whining and complaining about IB, why don't you just PAY the fucking fee like everyone else ... or else leave IB and shut up ... since you seem te be staying Ib must not be that bad ...