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Bump...anyone use Options House?

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Interactive Brokers charges .70, .50, .25 per contract depending on its price. If you're selling 30-50 contracts at a time is this a no-brainer or what? Any negatives about Options House I should be aware of?? thx

buy short term treasuries

makes sense. Thanks

K=4 trading in the .40's uhh :confused:

Bold part: trade what you can afford to lose. On your question: buy half the short side back at a loss; you will now be long vega. Keep in mind that short verticals can wipe you out if deltas move from .10 to .90.

I recommend you add Idiocracy to your Netflix queue

What happens to my credit card debt owed to WM if they BK? :eek: :p

Do you guys charge a % of AUM or % of profits...or a combo with high watermark?

Freddie Mac's auction of $3 billion of short-term debt Monday sold at better than expected prices as the offering was well received by investors. -WSJ

IMB not gapping (well, maybe a huge gap down)... I was referring to FRE/FNM

Probably big gap up tomorrow. Paulson just saved FRN/FNM shareholders (and short put traders:cool: )

Gov't should take a small stake in FRN/FNM to make the guarantee explicit, IMO...warrants or preferred

freddie peddles higher quality paper...prime as opposed to alt-a with indymac Does freddie even have depositors? They issue loans backed by prime mortgages as their main revenue generator AFAIK. The risk I see with freddie is that they won't be able to roll their loans and get squeezed for...

One is American Style the other is Euro...also dividends and tax treatment affect it (although the latter may not have anything to do with it??).

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract-id=519044#PaperDownload

Thanks for the insight. I see what you mean about the VX futures lagging; they use forward implied vol.

It's not the perfect hedge by any means, but how effective do you think it would be? May be cheaper than delta hedging...

This question was posed on another forum; I wanted to get ETs point of view. Don't mind the assumptions made in the post :) most of us are jr. ballers, big ballers, or retired ballers. ------------------- I understand this depends on the market sector. I know a lot of individual...