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isn't schwab $0.65 per option?

Why the $0.35 per contract then? https://brokerage.tradier.com/?_ga=2.95483420.1297210147.1597348920-1369433242.1597348920

By the way, are options order flows being sold like equities as well? I can see that IB and Schwab both charge $0.65 per contract when Tradier offers an eat-all-you can model for $30.

So just to be clear, you are asking for $85 - 30 = $55 monthly for the use of a graphic user interface to place orders, instead of the API?

Not a big fan of Lightspeed I must say (I know they are sponsors of this site and I actually like the guy) Looking for alternatives really.

Schwab and Tradier are often mentioned here but they both sell order flow to HFTs. I am wondering which online discount brokers besides IBKR offers Direct Market Access to the major US exchanges?

Just received an account closure letter from IB letter.... how did you sort it out? I am in the same boat as the one you were in (short seller, EU, etc....)

Windows 10 reset - Office 365 re-installed and updated. TWS re-installed. APIs re-installed. Spreadsheets re-designed. Problem still here. There I cracked at at Midnight: A compatibility issue: Newer version of excel reading older IB xls samples. It was just a matter of converting them to Excel...

Yes thanks - already doing that but spent many hours today trying to pull data from one sheet to another as smoothly as possible.

Excel 2016 (with office 365) is now offering free real-time stock prices from Nasdaq. But my Stocks and Geography data types get greyed out (disabled) by the IB VBA somehow. I have tried both DDE and ActiveX unsuccessfully. Now IB is charging $30 for every 100 data feeds in excess of our...

Back to the bull put spread question: Say I enter leg 1 of the trade today (sell @10) and Leg 2 next week (buy @ 9) would those 2 trade match automatically on the day of the second trade to net-off (reduce) my margin requirements? or do they need to be entered simultaneously on day 1 as a...

And you are sure this is for a portfolio margin account?

I have a portfolio margin account and have not figured out how IB is calculating margin requirements for BULL put spread strategy. Any thoughts?

Interesting - but TWS says otherwise: Naked Puts for the same strike seem to require more margin that vertical bull spreads with a buy leg 10% lower. It could be a case of illiquid options only (or just the ones that I am looking at) but TWS does not lie.

Right, and how do you calculate the maintenance margin impact in excel?

I can pull information from shares and options - but is it possible to see vertical and horizontal option strategy pricing in excel?

Yes.

My question is not that much 101 after all! Options have such a bad reputation and making simple components such as what I am raising here so murky does not help!

10% using your calculation is where I am getting at across my watchlist! It seems to be a reference in the market.

I find Greeks much more confusing!