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been reading that debit spreads do NOT require margin...is there any really money to be made with these trades? Example of debit spread: buy 10 QQQQ calls @ 50 strike sell 10 QQQQ calls @ 55 strike anyone do this NO margin required options trading?

sell a call if bearish and sell a put if bullish...easier than worrying about time decay of buying a put or call in the right direction

hey...not that bad...the EUR/USD could tank and open way down...are you saying you traded 20 standard lots? 100,000 each lot?

huh...if IB closes out all FX trades on Friday and you are already in this short position and IB is gonna close it out today...how will this position be open on Sunday for you to close it out?

you may be right...probably better to throw 10 cars at the ES with a really small daytrade margin and go for 10 points or so

thanks very much...man, I wish I had that to make $11k in one week...hmmm

I would have made $11,000.00 in one week...BUT..here again, no telling how much margin would have been required to place this trade...hmmm...thoughts?

aint thin now...really only thin if you are throwing 10 or more cars at it

how u gonna stay awake?

wow...guess that means NZD/USD .5900?

been short GBP/USD @ 1.6129...looking for retrace to 1.6100

all of this confirmed...netted +58 pips...thankful!

papa...I agree...was simply seeing how they work...not study and actual reasoning behind trades begin...you trade CL spreads?

short GBP/USD at 1.6332...bearish here...target 1.6300 short AUD/USD at .9006...bearish here...looking for retrace of .8980 level... BIG news events will drive movement in these overnight...

no...have never done this...also, FYI, when talking Crude Oil futures spreads...talking about trading an actual spread contract and not making your own "spread" by trading long/short 2 various CL contracts...I.E. Buy CL Jan10 and Short CL Feb 10

agree 100%...thanks!

I've been talking about Futures spread trading and not futures options spread trading at all...nothing to do with futures options here

yes Sir...I understand that FTSE is on LIFFE and DAX is on Eurex...BUT...my question is this to clarify...if you were going to trade the DAX vs FTSE...what exchange would you prefer to trade it on?...through LIFFE or EUREX?

Sold Naked December 20 Large SP500 1130 Call Index Options...okay...it was a paper trade...let's have some fun with this...there is sooooooooooo much talk on how easy it is to sell naked options...okay here it is: these have 4 days until expiration: sold December 20 call contracts at 1130...

to clarify...if one was going to trade the FTSE vs DAX spread actual contract...what exchange would that be offered on?