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It's required if your licensed with an Broker Dealer. It's needed for your U4.

What do you like about them?

Has not been trading long enough to compute correlation.

From : https://www.cboe.org/hybrid/pennypilot.aspx

So, what rate would you all offer a trader who only puts up $5000, to trade equites and options with basically no return from profits, only commissions. Taking into account all the fixed costs, risk of running the firm, compliance and don't forget the cost of borrowing risk capital and setting...

E-mail me your contact information, a description of your fund, what country your located in, and I'll follow up and recommend an administrator. Bob

I sent you a PM. You can open a Customer Portfolio Margin account and send copies of your monthly statements to your firm. Legal and very clean......Bob

These prints are either bad prints or prints against SPY options that are printed late. Check the volume at that time. If it was large, it was most likely vs options.

The open interest after the x-date from options that are clearly an exercise is often created from long unhedged option buyers that either don't want to own the equity or lack the capital to exercise.

Automatic exercise is only for expiration. The open interest lines that are targeted have more than two hundred, and their cost of setting up the trade is very low because of deals with the exchanges and the clearance firms. There are some phlx MM that make a living from this. Also, MM have the...

I'm not sure if the JBO arrangement allows the self clearing OCC member to pass on that right to their JBO partner. You would know better than me. Does your firm allow the extra leverage from cross margining? If yes, is it because of the reduced risk, or the ability to cross margin?Will it...

yes, currently even for market makers and other broker dealers, futures accounts are segregted and have their own margin requirements from a different regulator. The sec and CFTC would have to get together and agree on details. "Futures positions are permitted to be included in the portfolio...

You need to be a self clearing broker dealer. "Is STANS now approved for portfolio margining use? No, STANS is only used at the clearing level for self-clearing OCC member firms. TIMS is the approved methodology for portfolio margining and for broker-dealer net capital requirements under...

Dividend Spreads. Market makers look at the open interest on ITM calls with high dividends. They short large volumes of the ITM calls where the dividend is worth more than the put value, hoping the owner of the call will not exercise. They will keep their buy write on and receive the dividend on...

Would you like to start your own Prop Firm without the need for a Broker Dealer license and regulation? We offer Customer Portfolio Margin accounts for equity/options traders. These are segregated customer accounts with good leverage, professional platforms with professional service. You can...

SPX offers weekly, regular and quarterly expirations. Most of us are traders and don't care about the dates they expire. Funds like the quarterly options that offer protection or speculation until the end of the quarter, then expire and are then off their reported portfolios.

Btw: to my knowledge, this is not a "retail" platform, but a professional platform. The difference is that it is unlikely that it calculates and monitors buying power available for a cash, reg-t margin or portfolio margin account. Retail platforms have to.

All equities, Since 2003.

I believe it's the same information. That document comes out on a regular basis. Have a good week end Don..........Bob

Don, That's the same document monstimal provided you. Bob