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    Simple and Complex Option Spread Trading

    sweet, didn't know that...
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    Simple and Complex Option Spread Trading

    From what I have seen, ISE and BOX will accept the strategy. Our internal platform, we can construct the strategy and we have 1 of 2 choices: 1) Manually work each leg, routing to the regionals for execution (whoever's going to give us the best price for that particular leg). We assume the...
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    Simple and Complex Option Spread Trading

    We have a internal proprietary app here on our desk here at the inv. bank that does single stock options as well as complex options. Can't say more than that (for obvious reasons) Also, I believe ISE offers ClickTrade which has support for complex option strategies. But, you gotta jump...
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    Breaking news: Niederhoffer still in business after market correction!

    John J. Lothian's funny quote, based on the article I posted by Matt Goldstein on Friday from TSC: Niederhoffer's Second Act Has Plot Twist By Matthew Goldstein The May selloff in stocks couldn't have come at a worse time for hedge fund manager Victor Niederhoffer, who's been working...
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    Breaking news: Niederhoffer still in business after market correction!

    more VN news.... http://nakedshorts.typepad.com/nakedshorts/2006/06/past_performanc.html
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    Sales Trader?

    you get clients (i.e. "book") and when they want to trade, they call you and you execute their strategies. it involves a lot of selling, pitching, taking the client out to eat, etc.. to get clients. Consider it a high class broker, but with the ability to execute orders for the clients. You...
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    should i continue interviewing....

    In the end, it boils down to money. go where the money is. Business doesn't give a rat's ass about you. Small or big. So, I always hold the same attitude towards them. If a small co were to beat what i'm making at this big IB now, I'd be jumping ship. I'd even give them two weeks notice. They...
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    Picture of Chicago with traders in the theme

    i think i have one of me somewhere getting smashed at the Merc... :D
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    Breaking news: Niederhoffer still in business after market correction!

    http://www.thestreet.com/_tscana/markets/hedgefunds/10292247.html Niederhoffer's Second Act Has Plot Twist By Matthew Goldstein Senior Writer 6/16/2006 1:11 PM EDT The May selloff in stocks couldn't have come at a worse time for hedge fund manager Victor Niederhoffer, who's been...
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    "Stocks rally on Bear Stearns Earnings"

    I'd like to think we wield that much power here in Midtown, but alas, we don't... I think the focus probably was on the economic numbers. but plugging BSC was probably good 'filler'
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    Convertable Bonds

    http://screen.yahoo.com/bonds.html
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    What Brokerage Firm Would You Recommend For Automated Trading?

    I think nitro here uses Red Sky Securities..... http://www.redskysecurities.com
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    Breaking news: Niederhoffer still in business after market correction!

    I have to agree on this... Does Stevie Cohen go on every venue and toot his horn to attract more OPM??? NOPE. What about Kovner, etc.. Nope, don't see them tooting their horns... I do have some respect for VN, the ability to take a hit and come back, but, alas, I don't know the full monty...
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    Qcharts Road Map

    i agree... add international and some futures. Forex would be a nice addition too...
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    If you were assembling a trading room and you only could choose from ET's illustrious

    oh come now sweety.. it's CERES :D hahahaha
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    My Options Play II

    by observing the timeline leading up to the trade.. and the "wording".. It sounds as if there's just way too much exposure to going from 1.60 to 0.10 (or 0.05)
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    My Options Play II

    forex-forex, this has to be the funniest post(s) i've seen on et... LOL I love the visual of the headbanging :D It's amazing, that with options and all of the "options" available to adjust a losing position and morph it into a different strategy, that our friend did not choose to do that...
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    4 NYC Blacks Charged In Hate Crime Beating of Singer

    I was just about to say.. don't whites have EVERYDAY?? LOL Go Sands! :D
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    Wealth Lab Pro: Good of bad?

    yeah, i've looked at it... have to take a look at it some more eventually...
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