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EXCELLENT points... exactly right CBOE faxed me some documents this morning. Will review them and see if they shed ANY light on their reasons. I doubt there are "legitimate" reasons beyond what we heard on this board about some abusers. IF I changed orders more than a certain number of...

Truer words were never spoken... if traders do not complain to CBOE and to SEC/Congress etc. then we deserve what we get. The public/retail/off-floor traders DO provide liquidity. But I respect the right of MMs to trade on the floor and make markets. I'm willing to take that challenge. But...

I take my hat off to you for standing up and trying to make a difference... go ahead and contact the SEC

ABSOLUTELY true what you state... I talked with the CBOE today trying to determine why these fees were allowed in the first place back in 2001. And it's obvious that somehow these guys think they are doing off-floor traders a favor letting them trade options in the markets they make... when...

so brother corvus.. you think changing an order form 9 to 8.90 justifies charging a fee. If so why did they never do this in the past 18-20 years. Why? People gotta be able to recognize ethical breaches and greed when they see it. The off-floor traders are their bread and butter. Without...

ditto as to how mnay forget the other side of options transactions... shhhh.... let's keep it that way.

A line of atack on this would be the exchanges' inequality in setting cancel fees since we're dealing here with options.... for example, brother A gets the same cancel fee to cancel a 50 lot order on SPX, as brother B is charged for cancelling a 1-5 lot. I know there are judges, juries and...

Maybe the exchanges would be happy if no one (or less) traded options... and just "gave" them a certain % of monies in any given brokerage account. Like a yearly stipend for the honor and privilege of "public" off-floor access to the U.S. options exchanges! Geeez... I thought all were supposed...

think you should add Briefing.Com real-time to your poll... I subscribe to that... and have it up during the day. I check in with Bloomberg and CNBC before the bell... as well as some online sites. Ice:cool: p.s. when weekend arrives... it's GF, friends, sports, cinema, theatre...

funny.... I was born and raised in the US, but I agree with you completely! Was thinking the same thing when I read it. Some people ain't got a bigger perspective on life... and to put that quote from that joker is an example of that! Regards, Ice :cool:

Trajan... check out the volume on the QAV PUs 253K (OI 31K) .5/.10 Last .10 I:cool:

Was just discussing this with another trader... was easier in the days when everyone was a pseudo-trader. Lot of those guys been weeded out. Now mostly the "creme" or close to it.. is left.

yep :D

I think that's the ticket... collar it. I do that a lot if I think it's warranted by downside target. Not in EBAY yet.... but watching for sadaam to eat a bullet first (and maybe they auction it off on their site). Then after earnings... maybe a blowoff and reversal for a short entry...

"Well..... life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them!"

Thanks... I think that means go long... :D Hmmm... what to do? Ice :ccol:

EXTremely laughable... Ice:cool:

What an un-insightful and narrow-minded response! And... you just signed up for ET in March!? Give me a break. So let's see now... anything beyond a day is "investing", in your brilliant analysis?!

GreenDog... "you see that building over there? I bought it three years ago. My first real estate transaction. I sold it ten months later and made $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time it was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay."