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If the strategy/fund is legit then it could simply be a scalability issue.

Ask your broker.

Greeks and straddles are not skills, these are just a bunch of sensitivity measures and an option position!

I visited the NYSE floor this summer and the only way to get in is if a member escorts you as pointed out by cstfx.

Everyone pays exchange fees. The only difference is that some brokers charge them separately, while others have them incorporated in commissions. If you have been trading index options for a while and they have just now started charging you these then ask them about this.

Sure you can do that, but that creates a new trade, which you should evaluate as such.

TOS doesn't charge for real time data incl. level 2. Check out broker reviews, but TOS is probably far ahead of its competition when it comes to an options trading platform. At the end of the day, it's up to you to decide so why don't you just demo the platforms and decide which one you...

SPX is the S&P 500 and it is very liquid. The spreads are wide, but you can get good fills. XSP is the mini (1/10th the size). You can also trade the SPY (ETF that tracks S&P 500), which has extremely liquid options as well and it trades in penny increments. For Dow you have DJX and DIA...

I'd say simulating a real market fill is...well, impossible...so they have to go by something. In any case, I've said it twice already and I'll say it again, until you test out a strategy in real world live trading it's all guesswork. That's why we are all billionaires on paper!

You can't say for sure whether your theory works or not until you test it with real money, so until you do it's all guesswork. Getting filled in live trading is not the same as getting filled in paper trading, some trades that work on paper may not work in real life or vice versa... The...

Here's the title of your thread: how to hedge 10MM via options?. In your posts you keep mentioning trading. Do you realize that hedging and trading are two different things? Hedging a 10mil portfolio is a completely different issue to trading options with 5 or 10mil! As I said, noone is...

15-20 cents on a vertical in "illiquid" options!? That's likely to be the bid-ask spread one way so it's double that round turn, so I'm not really sure how you can make money on this, but, hey, if it works for you (once you trade with real money!) then who am I to say otherwise.

Your request is ridiculous! You ask people to show how to make money with options. In other words, you want someone to explain his/her profitable trading approach/strategy that the person spent years developing, and basically just give it to you for free!? I'm pretty sure the whole point of...

As a generalization, 252 or 260 days are used.

You seem really confused. First, you say you wanna hedge 10mil via options, then you say you wanna trade 10mil, now you say you want to trade half and keep half in cash. So which is it?

Stocks don't have open interest and for futures open interest you can go to the particular exchange's website.

Why don't you just arb it then!? If it works then great and if IB slaps on a huge fee for shorting then you'll learn your lesson, so to speak.

The stock is hard to borrow, which drives up the put prices.

11inches...what's with all...can't you write normal sentences...?

Thanks for the offer, but not at the moment.