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sle, how do you deal with the bid/ask slippage? i am sure you are right but i just dont see how you go about actually execute those trades. Lets say an index has 50 products, you have to execute 50 trades to buy 50 call options one for each, then short the index option. Unless IB has some...

sell cash covered atm puts on a basket of large/mid cap tickers you want to own for 6+ months, keep doing until you get assigned, then sell atm covered calls on them until it's called away. Change atm to otm as needed depends on your view of particular stock. It obviously depends on your...

From out my window, manhattan is pitch black. Quite surreal. edit: There is 1 building with all the lights on, not 100% from all the rain but pretty sure it's the goldman sachs hq in downtown :p

looks like the wind is already down to 85mph, it will be a tropical storm when it hits nyc later tonight. Bored out of my mind locked in my apt. My building management went batshit crazy, getting an email from them every hour since yesterday with gold nuggets such as those:

the only thing i am worried about is my fish tank, if the power goes out, it wont last for more than 12 hrs...

lol

Man what's the deal with the hurricane heading to nyc/nj this weekend, everyone is panicing like it's the end of days. The media of course are throwing more fuel to the fire. It will probably just be a nonevent with some rain and wind.... With bencopter speech tomorrow and light trading...

No doubt apple is a very healthy cash rich company right now. But the key for its future depends on if apple can still come up with the next ipad/iphone equivalent innovation in the coming years without steve. any ceo at that level can autodrive the existing ipad/iphone refreshes, but...

RIP apple.

atticus you mean a 20/35/50 call fly?

jpm will never take over bac. stop reading the bullshit tabloids.

Here in nyc, it was very minor movement of the floor but you can definitely feel it for about 10 sec. It's absolutely crazy how hysterical people got, everyone was panicing and rushing to get out. People were yelling not to take the elevator and lot of people still did. And the stairs were...

thanks atticus that make sense.

sell, is that always the case? for example spot at 42 front future at 33. if spot gaps down to 34 due to rally. will the future remain around 33 ALL the time. or is it more market condition specific and sometime they will also gap down to the 20s. thx

dipping my toe in this vix thing, since everyone seem to be playing with them. trying out some trades: 1 VXX Sep11 42 Put $5.05 -1 VIX Sep11 42.5 Put $9.90

i can see how it is positive viewed as counterparty risk. But you must be out of your fucking mind to use the auto liquadation engine as some form of stoploss especially for options. just wait until it randomly auto liq one of your leg in after hours causing a normal spread to be out of...

atticus, you are not my hero anymore :(

I refuse to believe someone is this fucking retarded. Some retail joe sixpack asked him if bsc is fine, do you really think cramer's answer meant the stock is not ok but if you have a few millions it's ok to put it in their wealth management? The guy clearly asked him how's the bsc stock...

vix spot at 41, atm 40p $10.5 40c $2.3 the reason is because the underly is based on forward price(futures) at expiration. so the markt is expecting the vix to drop back close to 30 at expiration. is my reasoning correct. also why is there such a big disconnect between the spot and future...

It should be mandatory for anyone new using IB, to do a search for ib liquidation engine on this forum. Count yourself lucky it's only $2500, i lost 5 figures when IB liquidated 1 leg of my es options using MARKET order in the middle of the night a few years back during the crazy time, it...