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I think we'd need to hear from someone more informed than your basic phone rep to determine if anything has really changed. With regard to marketability and the like, I kinda thought that most of the combo fills we get are based on the IB computer continuously scanning the individual legs to...

This doesn't sound right. I do a lot of these orders as well via optiontrader and I haven't noticed the same thing...maybe I need to look closer, although my fills have been solid lately...at or near mid and a few the other day at better than mid.

I did the 70 late last week...already up about 5 or so.

Pitchfork ready.

Keep up the good work Bob...F that guy.

Technically, we had no signed contract. Everything was prepared in "draft form" and was ready to sign pending the lot release...which of course still hasn't happened to this day for the poor bastards still waiting in line. I see prices heading up in a mini-bubble right now given the super...

We've watched this closely in our area as well. We were trying to buy new from a builder late last year. We picked the lot, designed the home and got a price...all set. Except the builder said that the lot wasn't "released" yet. So we had to deposit 5K to hold it and they would let us know...

Nice article. Thanks for sharing. IB's optiontrader wasn't mentioned, but it (synthetically it seems) operates along the same lines. I've entered up to six simultaneous legs into one order and it's gone off without a hitch. I'm wondering what their upper limit is on such a thing...if there is...

No problem. We're all on the same side here and we're all trying to be better at what we do. We may oppose each other in trading and take opposite sides and let the chips fall where they may. I see the options gang as a bit more cerebral and sophisticated as many other trading niches...

That was directed at Optionbull and not you. Sorry if you thought otherwise. There are traders here that thrive on providing unsolicited and critiques of the methods of others. I have no issue with that, but it's the way that it's done. Advice and suggestion are completely appropriate and we...

I was a CPO and not "long only". If your wish is for my inferiority to confirm your narrative, then that's what you'll make of it The OP asked a question about unexpected things we had seen in the options arena, and I responded. Hopefully I won't - once again - regret sharing and opening...

I was restricted to Section 1256 qualified contracts, so that limited what I could deal in. There were trades I could have made to partially hedge, but most involved taking futures positions. With the VIX north of 40 (eventually pushing 90 I think) and the kinds of overnight swings we were...

I trade the ES futures options - one of the most liquid contracts in the US. When we were dropping in 2007, I was actually sending instant messages to friends in Hong Kong overnight to try to talk them into taking the other side of some of my positions. There was nothing out there. We'd be...

Does anyone have a TreasuryDirect account and use IB? I'm interested in opening a TreasuryDirect account and laddering some notes etc... From reading the website, it seems that selling prior to maturity is done on the secondary market and the instruments need to be transferred to a broker...

I thought Aurora actively sought out gals like this to be teachers. It's a huge hippie town.

The biggest thing I learned is how many years it really takes to get a good grasp on all the aspects of options. It's fairly straightforward to learn the greeks, theory and even practice, but until you have positions on and watch the market go through many different iterations of movement -...

If he's going to join Los Lobos, he's gonna have to get inked in.

His main office is still there. He has branched out to... are you sitting? Mongolia. If you know him, I guess it isn't that surprising. He really is a genius on so many levels. He is similar in some ways to Jim Rogers the way he just thinks about ways to create value/wealth without...

I'm friends with Praetorian. He runs a fund and is doing pretty well - haven't seen him here in a long while. I was missing from here a few years myself.

I remember him. I didn't follow him much because the whole scalping/prop firm thing was never my gig, but he was an interesting fellow.