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When you say prices 1.50 below your limit order, are you talking about the midpoint of each option and using that as the fair price of the spread? The midpoint is not always a good representative of fair value. Typically most spreads are extremely tight in the SPX. Please give me an example...

There is no NBBO in the SPX. It is a single listed product. When you send a spread order through TOS to the SPX, it will be sent to the exchanges COB (Complex order book). Larger orders in the SPX (non weeklies) may be sent to a brokers par station in the pit first. So for your smaller...

To update, Friday Tsla 799.50 about 1 min before the close. Bought the expiring 800 calls for .15. Tsla closed at 800.03. Sold short stock after the close at 800.35 bought back at 799.50, then added a few more scalps. Had to leave at 430et, so I then filed a "do not exercise" on my calls as...

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You are not really trading the options in the after hours market, you are trading stock in the after hours market against options you traded before the market closes. Most brokers allow access to this after hours market. What you want to check is what is the cutoff time the broker requires for...

My main account is through Dash Prime, clearing through Apex. I also have an IB account that I use for futures and for trading SPX options after hours and a TD account.

Whether an option is auto exercised is based on the stocks 4pm close, but the closing price might occur just after 4pm.

The closing price is used to determine whether an option is automatically exercised. If it is .01 in the money it will be auto exercised, unless you file a notice not to, or to if out of the money.

The way the play would work, for example TSLA on Friday. The stock went out at 748.07. Just before the close the expiring 745 puts and 750 calls were offered at .10 and .12. Note that was the offer, you could potentially have bought them lower. Say you bought 10 calls for .12, or $120. Now...

There have been some opportunities lately buying cheap options on expiration day, a few minutes before the close and then trading the after hours market in the stock. For example in Tesla the just out of the money puts and calls, that appear to be worthless, were trading around .10 on Friday...

Typically when you are assigned early on one leg of a spread, it is not necessarily a bad thing. Your long options will cover your risk. If this happens on the call side just before the stock goes ex dividend, you will owe the dividend and if the stock is hard to borrow you may owe hard to...

Are you offering direct routing for options as well as stock?

Note that you can also trade SPX and VIX options after hours with IB between 2am and 815am ct.

FINRA is not an exchange, it is the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Wow, that is surprising, especially now that there are Monday, Wednesday and Friday expirations. I would want those updated statements as well.

Are you saying you can't tell if you were assigned on a weekly option (expiring Friday) until Monday with IB?

Since today was the payout date, you should see it on tomorrows sheets. Please report back and let us know.

So it looks like about a scratch now. You paid 46 for the spread and that's about where its trading now. There is still about 10 in premium in your Feb calls. Probably worth just taking the whole thing off and starting fresh.

Perhaps change your password when you sign in? Maybe someone else is using it?

I don't know what this means, are you saying you placed a market order and it was not filled? Are you saying you were trying to buy at the ask?