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Isn't that 300 RT @ $10 = $3,000 X 20days = $60,000 month plus fees? Put him in touch with me and I'll refer him to somewhere were he can save enough for the down payment on a house; he can buy me a nice lunch in return.

If the option markets get any slower, I am going on vacation.

If you have e real time feed available from them, I would use it. End of day is pretty meaningless though. Real Tick is an alternative, but you will have to do some interesting programing to sweep the universe of strikes, not what it was designed for and they probably won't support you.

Caribbean in the winter, Mediterranean in the summer, would be better.

Wayne, by St. Charles Probably Freeport because it is closest to Miami, Nassau would be better. They are available and somewhat reasonable in the Bahamas, about $2K, PTP is flakier it seems.

Chicago suburbs, we are definitely going,

That is how we got into this.

It can work-out if you trade a diversified enough portfolio of them.

I used to have a copy of it, it is OK; the problem with all of them is they can not crunch 125,000 or so strikes with up to 5 exchanges in real-time.

We have all proprietary software, so I am probably not the right person to ask; however I used to use Tradestation, a lot of problems loading all the symbols, can not follow the universe of strikes, lousy technical support, etc.. We use a combination of feeds, the best one for options is...

Branch office, really means it is a separate company.

usually not very long, seconds on average.

It seems like you are trading around $75K US; if you can get $1K margin on the futures, you could put $15K in a futures account, keep $60K in a stock account, allowing you the advantages of trading futures and the capital to hedge in your scenario. Not perfect, but what is? You can...

Not too good if you are US, improving if you are non-US.

Chalk it up to experience. The odds of getting a refund from a small operator are slim to nonexistent. You didn't really buy that thinking you could get your money back, did you?

We have used used collars in covered call/put situations where the underlying is say a small drug company, about to get approval/disapproval. Stock @ $52 $55 Call @ $6 $45 Put @ $3 Buy the stock, sell the call, buy the put. With Collar Approval, stock goes to $60, 5.75%+ return...

Sorry, missed the word "option", thought you were talking about something else.

The spread will probably hurt you.

If you are short 5 eminis and long 1 full, you are flat.

One, they are fungible 5 to 1.