the conspiracy theorist in me can't help but marvel at the change in character coincident with the Mass. election.
It's as if someone's saying, "if you continue to behave like naughty children, there shall be no more obamabucks."
Here's my comment, as submitted:
A transaction tax would, indeed, be felt by "Main Street" -- big time. How?
1) It would reduce the volume business done on the exchanges -- sharply -- thus making it substantially more expensive for individual investors to buy and sell stocks. In other...
340 contracts on the XEO weekly? That's a substantial chunk of the open interest on those puppies. Looks like there's almost no liquidity there, even compared to OEX. How much work do you have to put into getting filled?