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The last email (release notes) included a whole bunch of products, but so far I got only ES as well. Maybe they'll take a few days to make sure that everything is running smoothly before adding more products.

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The multiplier is the same as for futures, which is $50 for the ES. http://www.cme.com/trading/prd/equity/emini-sp500_OA.html

Yes, it works pretty much the same way, except that only quaterly options expire into cash, serial expire into a futures contract. 1 option is for 1 futures contract (check contract specs on CME's website).

There's no reason for you to exercise the put or call for that matter if you bought it just a speculative trade, you are better off just selling it. If you do have an explicit wish to exercise then exercising a put would create a short stock position in your account, which will then have it's...

If you buy a put then there's no dividend risk. The dividend is a problem only with short ITM calls. I think the statement is always there.

That's the beauty of these kind of calls, sooner or later you'll be right and then everyone will be saying that this is the guy who called the recession in XXXX year, while nobody remembers you when you are wrong. The problem is that these predictions are absolutely useless if you wanna...

Thinkorswim platform. It shows market depth for options, well, not real market depth, but you can see the best bid/ask quotes and size for each of the exchange.

Both May and June 44 calls have several thousand contracts on the best ask so 200 contracts shouldn't be a problem.

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Commissions are negotiable, besides commissions are not at the top of my list when I choose a broker.

I'd say thinkorswim's trading platform is hard to beat.

Books. For free basic education see here, here and here.

Since you can exercise it and buy the stock at 30 you option will be worth around 5.

Technically it's not a joke, but it sure is funny. "I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death - abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term 'thinking outside the box'" The 84-year old Warren Buffet announces in February's annual...

I agree, if the average risk/reward is 1:2 you can make a lot of money with a 50:50 probability.

Well, that's for you to find out. I mean, if you could do that accurately then you'd have an edge. There are many tools to forecast volatility, however, as with everything else, there's no best.

I trade index options. It's a purely mechanical system based on volatility prediction, no R/S, delta or other stop loss. The two big losers were Aug and Jan, with Jan having the max loss and Aug about 2/3 of the max. I also had a small loss in Sep, the rest of the months were all winners and...

You can't predict a sharp rise in IV since it is associates with "black swan" type of events.

Pick up a book or two on technical analysis and see for yourself.