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From the Fed website............. Release Date: August 26, 2008 For release at 10:00 a.m. EDT On August 25, 2008, the Federal Reserve conducted an auction of $75 billion in 28-day credit through its Term Auction Facility. Following are the results of the auction: Stop-out rate...

I only trade index options so I can only speak from my experience and that is usually puts have a higher IV than calls and this is due to the greater fear of crashing than rallying. So people are willing to pay more for downside protection than upside potential I dont know what your knowledge...

Have a look at most option chains on pretty much anything, puts usually have a higher IV than calls for the same strike and expiry. This is due to the greater fear of the market going down than up, which is why there is a price difference This page explains it much better than I can...

I think there has been a little confusion here. The credit spread mentioned was adding a bear call spread to an existing calendar spread which has been called the monkey calendar There is also no difference from calendar spreads being constructed with all calls or all puts, but due to the...

With SPX @ 1296.3 Double Calendar Sell 1 Sep 1330 Call, Buy 1 Oct 1330 Call Sell 1 Sep 1290 Put, Buy 1 Oct 1290 Put Double Diagonal Sell 1 Sep 1330 Call, Buy 1 Oct 1350 Call Sell 1 Sep 1290 Put, Buy 1 Oct 1270 Put The way I learnt these two strategies is they both start with the...

Lets say a stock is trading @ $100 You open a 4 lot Calendar @ 100 Stock moves down to 95 - you close 2 of the 100 Calendars and open 2 90 Calendars - so you end up with a Double Calendar Stock keeps moving to 88 - you close 1 of the 100 Calendars and open 1 85 Calendar - thus ending up...

I've been some trading some double calendars with good success lately and wanted to investigate doing some double diagonals. Just wanted to ask what are the pros and cons of the two strategies? I know the DD will require margin but costs less to place. The DC has no margin but the initial...

Ive already used the lite version - but it only allows me to input 15 trades I want to be able to place my trading history in and see how much more I wouldve made or lost using this system I know I could pay for it or do the calculations manually but like a bad hooker Im cheap and lazy...

Hi Traders, I'm reading through "Ryan Jones - The Trading Game" and he presents a money management technique called Fixed Ratio Trading. Its a fairly simple formula and seems to help grow small accounts geometrically Im trying to find some free software on the net that can simulate the...

I am looking for someone to develop a trading system on the Dax and FTSE for me. If you already have the Data for these and know how to program and backtest please contact me via email. pinozi@inthemix.com.au