Some fantastic software that's long gone:
aspenres
optionomics
old version of windotrader (squat bars)
eccotrader which I ran at a fund. Better version of TT's MD/X_trader. Sold to superderivatives.
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Yeah, roll with @MarkBrown who hasn't made a dime in the mkts since Kennedy was in office.
Obv index puts trade over calls, but cs trade over ps as the revenue side of the skew is in call verts (OTM on all). So ideally you'd trade near (within 30D strike) cs (call spreads). Trade neutral delta...
TL;DR?
"There are no differences between credit and debit spreads."
If there were then boxes would be traded until flat/edge was gone. Nobody is handing you a box-edge at mkt.
There is no difference between credit and debit spreads. Generally ppl source the OTM spread due to perceived liquidity.
A call credit spread = the same strike(s) put debit spread bc puts are calls and calls are puts. When we discuss the box it's bc cs are = ps. A box is a cs and ps. Another...
Quoth the idiot.
How can equivalent structures have different probabilities?
I will accept your absurd argument if you can quote the mid on the NDX Jan 16 forward.
"Short against the box" it's not a box arb.
It's against IRS regs to initiate a short synthetic in the next calendar year (or beyond, against long shares) for tax deferral or to short shares in another account. Let them prove it, however.