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OK, an ES September 1k put is .50x3 on IB right now. Are those pure dollars - ie can I buy the right to sell somebody one September ES for $1000 for a measly three bucks, or even $1.25 if I split the spread? Or is it "times 50", meaning it really costs 50 times what the quote is? And 1100...

Theoretically, you could exercise it. But floor traders have such low trading costs, it's almost always cheaper to just sell it. Somebody will buy it just to make a little on the exercise, if nothing else.

Where's a good place to get free quotes on way out of the money ES option chains?

Working fine for me so far today. Although it never reported any ES trades of 1222.75 to my API.

This is one of the things that worry me, what happens if you're say long 10 ES, and terrorists nuke Chicago and Globex goes down? When the market reopens days, weeks. months? later, ES is cut in half. -600 points times 10 times $50 is 300 large. My house isn't worth that much, but I have...

IIRC, NihabaAshi actually built his trading desk. He might have some good ideas.

So I take it that most folks have found 843.7 to be stable? I might upgrade this weekend.

Everytime I see this thread, the song "In the Midnight Hour" starts playing in my head, LOL.

I'm here. Surprised to see you show your embarrassed face tho. Guess we can see the 6 bases for 5 years is a bunch of BS. US forces will still be there a month from now, care to wager some real money on it?

There ya go. It's also nice to provide a link to the site where one gets the work from, give the creators a little credit.

On of my favorite art forms is the single panel editorial cartoon. My all time favorite was when the Republicans had 7 nominees, and the big story was about how they didn't know the price of eggs. So the cartoon had them getting asked what the price of eggs was. And they all responded very...

False alarm, folks. Closing the thread.

Dang. Can you believe we busted 1210 on relatively low volume? The market is an amazing thing.

As a general rule, a new thread with this lead sentence on EliteTrader is a bearish sign. But who knows for sure, not me.

I had probably the biggest day of the month yesterday - I was doing so well I had to stop trading because my ego was MRMARKET huge! It's funny, because it seems like I am usually the opposite of what folks post. Seems like I have a bad day and somebody posts about what a great trading day it...

Not sure how we ended up with two of these threads in Econ, but I'm closing this one.

On EliteTrader? Are you sure? ;)

I bet you could get 2 mill for a properly parked airstream. ;)

The best part is, I can imagine Bubba up in the mountains reading this and thinking "Shiiiiit! We'all's millionares!"

This sounds unbelieveable, but here's the link to the USA Today story: http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/housing/2005-07-05-million-dollar-trailers_x.htm