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  1. tommcginnis

    Interactive Brokers Exchange Quote on ES Option Spread?

    By which you mean, in Demo?? Agreed. IB/TWS has no issues in providing NBBO. "Fo' sho'!"
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    Market activity after Nixon resignation and Clinton impeachment?

    Were the Office Of President half of what you purport, there would be no need for a White House Counsel. Read that slowly, think about it a bit. Have a tall glass of milk, Have Mom change your clothes, and get the hell back to your "positions."
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    Trading Platform Features (do these exist? If not, why not?)

    Beer&: in the upper left of every chart is a roller/drop-down, into which you can input various contracts. It will keep studies from one chart to another, but not individual edits/comments. as well, that little chain-link thingie, I THINK, is mostly what you're looking for -- if you hit the IB...
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    Reaching midpoint

    very well
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    IB TWS ... how to close option combo with unmarketable legs?

    Unless you want to whack your margin requirements, you need to buy back the short before selling off the long. If you don't wish to cross the MID of the bid/ask spread, you need to put the trade on, and let it cook. If you see only a couple-hundred contracts traded per day, you're going to...
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    Reaching midpoint

    qxr1011, you are wrong, and if you're making money right now, you *should*be* making lots more. ("Yayyyyyy!") Compare the volume, and then the bid-ask spread, of SPX versus SPXWs. SPXWs trade in the thousands, with spreads ~50¢. SPXs trade in the tens-of-thousands, with spreads of >$1.00. The...
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    Fat finger on TGT or what?

    I don't know (or, 'have a notion about...') the cause of the trade *entry*, but as far as market mechanics go, IB's TWS would have a hard problem allowing this, and although I'm an IB/TWS proponent, I don't think its set-up is all that unique: I don't think most option platforms would allow such...
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    Market activity after Nixon resignation and Clinton impeachment?

    Why would the chief executive be removed from office? What actions would they have to have undertaken? What actions would qualify? How do we term those actions? What's the word? The word??????? A single word??? TWO words, if you need 'em? "The President is above the law." "The President is...
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    Reaching midpoint

    (I can't tell you how often I've "What?!?! A nickel or a dime?!?!? Doesn't matter!!" ....... I throw fits.:mad: I rank such thoughts with the "educators" who teach "How To Make Great Stock Trades" when the only thing they do is how to enter, leaving the dull, boring, messy stuff like...
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    Market activity after Nixon resignation and Clinton impeachment?

    [((What is that German term referring to finding humor at others' discomfort? Shoiden-frueda or some such?)) I just don't know whether to laugh (chuckle??) or cry/moan at this point. Dunno. At any rate...] This reminds me of Second Amendment arguments..... To wit: "What is it about 'High...
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    Reaching midpoint

    Back before vol fell into its current lull, I spent years doing far-OTM spreads -- generating return that by 2017 standards would be patently irresponsible (2%-3%/week). Transaction costs were a very sizeable chunk -- still would be now! Except we'd all be 30-50 SPX points closer...
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    A typo killed the Nasdaq?

    "Johnny, what can you make of this?" Owwww! I can make a snake, I can make DNA, I can twirl and make a caduceus!!!
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    Market activity after Nixon resignation and Clinton impeachment?

    Ohfergawdsakes. Here! A different tack: Everyone who swears/affirms an Oath to the United States, swears fealty to The Constitution Of The United States, and not to any person. WHY? Answer that, at least for yourself, and maybe feel better about, you know, Life! Your Country! And all that rot.
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    Market Neutral Spread

    A long-held*, little-tested** truism is that 70% of an individual stock's movement stems from the overall market, and only 30% is attributable to that individual equity. But yesterday's enormous divergence between the NASDAQ and the DOW showed that ultimately, knowing those individual stock...
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    The Flynn crash

    Nobody cares, you ignorant piece of work. Zip up that tiny little thing you call a zipper, and just *try* not to make any more of your idiot calls. Fergawdsakes man. It's 2017. Subtract the year of your birth, and then act your age. Or not! But no-oooooooobody cares!! Are you gonna spend 2018...
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    Trading Platform Features (do these exist? If not, why not?)

    A lot of this can be approximated in TWS, but it'll take me a bit to respond. "Back later" I guess.:(
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    The Flynn crash

    That was hilarious. Finely understated -- perhaps a smoke or a glass of brandy in hand?
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    The Flynn crash

    Ehhh, no. Aside from Constitutional indelicacies, there is also the concept that *all* are subject to "the Law" -- a concept borrowed by U.S. Founding Fathers from the signing of the Magna Carta. Here -- so you don't have to look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta Put that idea...
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    E-mini S&P 500 settlement on 30Nov - is it wrong?

    4pm is the rule, not the exception.
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