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Exactly... imo yet another future's trading shop... I prefer having my money with somebody like IB where I know I will have access to the money tomorrow.

I watched Wallstreet original edition and Wallstreet Money Never Sleeps. And what was interesting is how times have changed. Namely back then your trades depended on who you knew. Now with electronic trading all of that has changed. So if your buddies are paying more because well they would...

And you don't think that the ones selling the options don't know this? I am not trying to be cynical. BUT... If you are trying to buy a straddle before SEC approval the option makers will already have rammed up the vol to compensate them for the potential rip or flop. Hence you trying to...

I would not say IB is ripping off since they can't. They are a big brokerage and have to adhere to best prices. If IB is listing the options at 0.88 why did you put in a bid of 1? I would have put in 0.88 since that is what is being offered.

I am out of that stuff. For the past five years I have been writing trading systems for others. Now I just so my own trading. However, I work with traders on developing our own systems for trading our own money.

I use the Bloomberg notation and build up what I call a bid-ask-last table that is incrementally updated. I get the data as bloomberg sends me.

Sorry for being cynical. I enjoyed writing the books and I am glad they helped. But Apress was a bleeding nightmare! They completely blew the process and this is why I am glad it is behind me. Sorry about that again...

Used to be yeah. But those books are a nightmare behind me.

Next Wednesday Jan 19 at 07:00 EST I will be giving an IB webinar. In our chat a small group is switching to IB and they are completely swamped by the complexities of IB. You can register at the stockguy22.com website. Christian Gross

Forgot to add how I organize them... I do as follows for my example CL-2011-01-CALL-100 This way it generates a unique identifier. The only exception and you need to think hard about this one is that the currency contracts have both American and European contracts. So for them add an...

Are you talking as in bloomberg terminal... You know the 1900 USD per month service? If so then what you need to do is generate the Bloomberg notation. I have not downloaded future option data in a while, but here goes... So for example, lets say we want an option of crude oil... CLF1C...

let me say that I will politely disagree with you. First the ib margin calculations do not liquidate willy nilly. They liquidate to get you more margin. I have seen how ib will liquidate short option positions while leaving the long option position intact. To get the real benefit to ib you...

A Brit complaining about France. Wow amazing bait and switch tactic. The Brits are in worse shape by a long shot. While many complain about the French milking the system please remember that the French also pay quite a bit in taxes and other things. I am not condoning France. What I am sick...

Who are you using? Is ibs interactive brokers? Because if it is there is a c# API. Google dinosaurtech.

I would say yeah...

I wish India would do more talk less. India's neighbor china seems to have the opposite problem, talk little do lots. I have dealt quite a bit with Indian software houses (since 1995) and it seems to me they have lots of chiefs. Take for example the nano. I love the entire concept. There is...

Yes I do remember and I had no stops and plenty of margin. Worked out ok for me. Not so ok for other traders.

Do the math. If you sold at 500 you could be exercised against though it would cost you nothing. The problem is that the market might move against you and that could cost. But that could happen at 499.99.

I am amazed at how people and the media thinks this means the Yuan will be revalued. I have been saying for the past month on my blog. The Yuan will devalue, and here is their excuse. The Yuan will be priced against a basket of currencies, good news yes? Well what if that basket were say...

do you mean selling them or buying them? I would say that there is no easy way at all with options. Just like there is no easy way with stocks.