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Forget the math. It's all down to ....... ....... how motivated of a buy/seller you are. If the trade is important then you accept the bid/ask - otherwise you can try the nickel-and-dime approach, which in most cases leads to a higher cost anyways.

Very incoherent OP.

Why are healthcare ETF's and stocks participating in the selloff? PJP (Invesco Dynamic Pharmaceuticals ETF) -4.60% IHE (iShares U.S. Pharmaceuticals ETF) -3.47% XPH (SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF) -4.69% PBE (Invesco Dynamic Biotechnology & Genome ETF) -4.42% PPH (VanEck Vectors Pharmaceutical...

Not a chance. You have no choice but to use stops with futures. You end up getting stopped out a lot and then watch as it rebounds without you. Not very much discussion about futures on EliteTrader. You don't need a stop for options - your debit is your stop. Down 50% one day up 150% the...

Yahoo Finance - and you can download the data in a CVS file. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL/history?p=GOOGL

IMG ........ discouraging a new trader from trading options in the Options Forum of Elitetrader. I thought this was the EliteTrader forums we are on - not the ElitePussy forums.

Option theory is grossly over rated, and not required to trade options. You don't need to know why your car engine runs to drive a car.

No way are futures better than options. Futures can be death by a thousand cuts - getting stopped out of your position, only to see it reverse without you. With options you don't get stopped out. QQQ options would be a good place to start, and study the Yahoo Finance option chains.

QQQQ? $29? Your article is from 2003

An option can go from $0.00 to $5.00 So the position will not be closed.

Very poorly worded question. Is "account" an option position?

IMO ........ That's a lot of contracts in 1977.

Not really margin - it would be cash in your account.

This classic sentence is misleading - particular the underlined part "An option is a contract which gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset". It gives the impression that you can just forget about your long option position, and you have no...

You can't trade options on margin. The long options act as a cover for the short options.

It is said or rumored that the retail trader will ride a sell-off to the bottom - so zero commissions probably won't change that.

Not necessarily. I have never had a Market Orders filled at a worst price than the current bid/ask.

An unfilled Limit Order will cost you more than a Market Order. It's a myth that Market Orders are filled at unfair prices - I use them all the time.

Use Market Order