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"Why do you think they call it DOPE?"

Well I did look at it yesterday. And I knew it was a stinker. I was just so baffled by the fact that it was zooming up yesterday, I figured this stock was too unpredictable and better for me to leave alone I need to learn to trust my inklings

I guess people got fed up with the 2 minute wait for cancels. Sounds like an improvement

Well, ok, but take any profit you get today quickly as it creeps back over 15 November puts yesterday would have been nicer! I looked at that stock yesterday, amazed to see it going higher while all the decent stocks were dropping. I should have known to bet it would drop. I would have...

I use IB I'll try to keep the room open, possibly a few people with similar interests will join over time I'm really only interested in SSF and Options. So a lot of the other chat in the regular room doesn't interest me

November calls is rather risky. Why not go for December?

If you want to discuss SSF real-time during market hours go to Chat and choose SingleStockFutures Room If I'm not responding at the moment I'm probably busy on these boards or things like that, but I'll be back You could send a private message to alert me you're there

It does seem so easy. And it would be so easy if you had extroardinary luck in picking. But it can be just as easy, actually easier, to pick them wrong and lose

The market should be that simple, but it isn't quite. Sometimes it's "buy on the rumor, sell on the news", so stocks go the opposite of how you'd expect based on good or bad news ECN is Electronic trading that happens before 9:30am and after 4:00pm Spread is the difference between what...

Click Chat from EliteTrader menu Then click the Rooms tab, and highlight SingleStockFutures, then hit Enter

It's a bit wild until they settle in There's a chatroom if anyone wants to discuss them real-time

BAC is trading way below the stock price. It's starting to rise now Thinking I should have gotten it when it was much lower

You may be choosing stocks that aren't trading Futures if it's greyed out

Not all stocks trade SSF. Only about 25 stocks are set to trade them today

Everything about this is ass-backwards. It's incredible. They claim to be concerned about limiting risk. But they're most severely limiting the thing that is the least risky (trading options purchased with cash) while increasing the thing that really is risky (margin).

Tell us more about the onions please

NQLX plans to offer around 50 SSFs and Futures on ETFs. One Chicago plans on offering over 80 SSFs and narrowed based indices. SSFs that are dually listed on both exchanges are not fungible, thus, contracts opened on an exchange must be closed on that exchange. -from Interactive Broker's...

You'll want quotes from both exchanges for those SSF that trade on both. Unless you decide you like one exchange better than the other. You'll just need to route your closing order to the same exchange you opened it on. Otherwise, you'll be left with one long and one short position on the same...

The question of risk, like the little child not allowed to cross the street, should have more to do with the size of the street and the amount of traffic, not how many times you may cross it. They limit you to three street crossings, no matter how slow the street is. But they'll allow you to...

This stuff about "risk" is cute: Nonetheless, if you engage in numerous options transactions during the day you are still subject to intra-day risk. You may not be able to realize the profit on the transaction that you had hoped for and may indeed incur substantial loss due to a pattern of...