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Yup.

To answer your question on implied volatility. Implied volatility is the volatility (one of the 6 variables required to price an option, and the only unknown variable) that is implied in the current market price of an option. Essentially, you take a pricing model such as Black-Scholes and...

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:D :D :D Please don't stop guys, this is so much fun!

Well, that too, if you trade stock and/or equity options, not if you trade futures.

In a cash account, yes. What you need is called a margin account.

Who cares, it's not like you'll be around to exercise it!:D

Do a search on "max pain theory".

There's no Feb ATM strike on CME!:eek:

TOS does offer futures, not all but they do!

If you are new to options then Thinkorswim would be hard to beat in terms of the platform and customer support.

In TOS you can see the margin requirement for each position you hold, I would think the same could be seen in IB, but I'm an IB customer so I don't know.

Just checked with TOS, as I said, you can plot individual option's IV, but not a particular month's index.

Got it fixed. Depth is so far available on ES, NQ and GE, but more is coming. And as it has been mentioned above, you can go to setup to enable "Auto send with shift click" which bypasses all the screens...just hold shift and click on the bid/ask.

You can plot individual option's implied volatility in TOS. Not sure if you can plot the individual month's IV, never seen this feature, but it would best to check with them to see if there's a way to do that. I'll see what I can find out and post back.

That's what I meant. Thanks.

Number 1 is better, there's no guarantee that the stop order will get filled.

Stop daytrading options and what he said.:)

The only depth I see is for stocks, not futures. And I didn't get the release notes, not even in spam.

Really!? I didn't get an email notification...weird.