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Define the features of "the best option" to trade?

No worries, thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for replying! Let's say listed options in the US.

Hi, Does anyone have any experience in dealing with Jefferies (the investment bank) or have any insight into them, in particular with respect to their services as a clearing broker?

As far as I know, dispersion is not about directional movement, but about volatility of the basket of securities (individual index components) vs. volatility of the index, as well as correlation.

Are you serious!? If I'm understanding this correctly you have been trading options, yet you've never heard about margin or margin requirement or any other related concept!? I don't mean this as a negative, but I really find it hard to believe that anyone could trade options or any other...

Exchanges have set position limits. I'm sure clearing firms and brokers have their own internal limits depending on the particular client/account size.

I'm sure someone more educated in exotics than me will voice their opinion on this, but my guess is that you can't just use the ratio of IVs as you need to take into account the correlation as well. I guess it is similar to a dispersion trade, where, as far as I know, correlation plays an...

The funds in a futures account are usually held in a segregated account, which means that if the broker fails then your funds are safe.

The broker has nothing to do with this. It is the clearing firm of the broker that matters and that guarantees the payout.

No, nobody gets defaulted precisely because of the clearing house. If there is a loss then it is covered from the fund that all clearing firms pay into. The clearing firm will then sue the particular person to recover any loss. Besides, you are assuming that all option sellers are uncovered.

A protected buy-write...hmm...my guess would be it's a collar, which is synthetically equivalent to a long call vertical spread or a short put vertical spread. In other words, unless you already hold the long stock, you are better off doing a vertical spread than a collar.

Check out this one and this one.

Actually, you would use the bid price for long positions and ask price for short and not the other way around as you wrote. You can also use the mid-point.

See this thread.

There is no way to trade them if you are a US resident as the law prohibits this. So unless Option Trader is not a US resident he/she won't be able to either.

If you have a specific currency pair in mind then check out these on ISE.

As I mentioned, I don't use IB so I can't say for sure, but the two below seem pretty obvious: Eurex (DTB) Non-professional - Level I Germany 8.00 EUR Eurex (DTB) Non-professional - Level II Germany 12.00 EUR

First of all, your system cannot automatically submit option orders without human intervention. It's agains the regulation. I'm pretty sure you can see the full chains in IB. You can also look at thinkorswim, either their retail platform or their institutional platform, just talk to them and...

Have you tried looking on the EUREX's webpage!? It took me 10 seconds to find a comprehensive list of trading hours for all products.