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The "best options strategies for advanced beginners" would depend on factors like what your expectation is for price or vol changes in the near future. And, you need a process in place that is right more often than wrong. Randomly picking any option strategy without that will have unpredictable...

That is not us.

Not with us. Yes. Yes, but those order are not shown and have no price protection. NASDAQ is a Stock exchange like the NYSE where shares are listed. It is not a dark pool or free route which the free brokers use.

Lightspeed offers trading on ARCA and NASDAQ routes from 4am to 8pm est. I think so does EDGX. We offer an Instinet SMART route that works pre-market. Pre and post market trading must be limit orders. We do not offer Market or any type of Stop orders off hours. Our GTC orders are not active...

Besides this limit, most clearing brokers provide a credit limit and a debit limit. They do not want an account of $500,000 carrying a credit of $50mm. In addition, there is a regulatory limit for how much one clearing broker can lend. They are not going to allow one customer with $500,000 to...

(50*3*100) + (50*4*100) = ?? Maybe a PMA is not for you yet. You need a deeper understanding of options.

I find it hard to tell if you are a person with a very high IQ but no real understanding of market structure and risk/return or just someone in the alpha quadrant on LSD that likes to read and believe everything they read. If you are here to learn, listen to the responses of those that take the...

Hard to help someone that knows everything. This is the same argument that naked put seller have that say it is free money. Then, 2 years later, they are broke.

I'm not sure your MC simulation takes into account the expectancy of the stocks going down well below break even. I'm not a fan of these trades and feel the risk reward is very low.

You are correct. Not only do I not know, but it is not my concern. I was responding to the question about why more equity brokers do not just add this software. My point was it is not economical to just add more.

We have certified with and added to our OMS and compliance systems about 6 software trading platforms. Each one requires an investment in man hours and a contract for the third party provider. There needs to be an economic reason to keep adding more. In addition, staff needs to be trained on it...

Hi Forexer Guru, we do not offer MetaTrader but may I ask why you only want to use that software when there are a number of Equity centric platforms dedicated to equities?

Or you can buy one ES future and the margin is only $11,800. I’d say you can do that with an account of $15k.

You were assigned an option with no premium because the cost of carry for the long is too high. Why would you sell that to open in the first place?

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Brokers lend money from settlement to settlement, not for parts of the day.

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What % of SPAN do they offer for DT? I would think the net margin for an OTM call is close the futures margin until it goes ITM. $1300 is about 10% of Initial ES margin.

I'm not sure where you get the $1300 in margin, but at 5pm, the market stops trading. When your broker processes the assignment, you are flat. If that is processed from 5pm to 6pm est or later, is FCM dependent and software dependent. Until that time, you are long one ES. Some third party...

If varies by broker. No reason why you can't have an ITM option that delivers the future as long as you have the cash to cover margin. Intraday margin ends at 5pm est but futures and options are marked by the CME at the 4pm est close.