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I know your timeframe is different, but I would want concrete evidence that I was not entering into a stealth Directional trade. I'm not all that familiar with StockCharts, but the fact that these two guys start off in the same place, and do not regularly cross, suggests that if you end up on...

Jeez, man -- there's got to be a dozen different ways. But it's Friday night. Wait til Sunday night, wake up yer ol' TWS, and click around a bit. They'll all come out of the screen at you like they're moths and you're a lantern. Hey! This wine is pretty good! ;)

Do you remember the theme to the Batman series?? Gamma gamma gamma gamma Gamma gamma gamma gamma Gamm-maaaaaa! :D

That's not what I said or implied at all, TM.

Seriously, guys -- you think the market for $1800/month apartments is just going to evaporate right along with the $2000-$2500-$3000/month market? That's hilarious. (Do you remember your Substitute Goods lecture from college? Remember scaling things like roast beef to sirloin hamburger to...

It all sounds so familiar, though: "However, the FCA found that IBUK has failed to adequately calibrate and test the post-trade monitoring systems to ensure potential market fraud by clients would be captured. Besides, IBUK did not provide oversight and quality control of the activities of the...

Meh! There's a market for this sort of thing! Let's just ask [the early 70s] Roger Ailes if he could imagine any subject-to-market news provider dishing out anything but 'fair & balanced' info...

KK, I apologize for the delay in this response: I've thought of it a few times, but have been distracted by bright, shiny objects before I can write it. ("Squirrel!") SO: A POSSIBLE WORK-AROUND: given your position in the market, and given your position as an IB customer, why not pursue what...

Reflecting on JackRab's comments -- the ol' Business School line was that share buy-backs were what companies with no future did -- they looked at their balance sheet, concluded that (the promise of) R&D would not pay the shareholder as well as cutting down the number of shares over which...

I taught a course in economic systems back in the late 80s -- remember Tiananmen Square? And the Berlin Wall was coming down? Soviet Union breakup?? And Germany/reunification?? WOW. It was a perfect time to look at the past, and put pieces into the future..... But the thing about China -- as...

Only scanning the thread (not really participating...) but when things get sticky in SPX/SPX options, then ES/ESFOPs come into play. Even the SPY/SPYoptions can help. So, I'd offer the DIA into the conversation. IF it helps. (Accompanied by all the caveats that run SPX/ES/SPY stuff.)

I started a thread on this subject back in November -- there's a fair set of observations there, between SPX and ES. (Along with ET-snark, which you can ignore...) You might want to have a look-see. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/esspx-3pts-here-comes-the-interest-rates.314732/ Having...

Formerly, a margin calculation algo was posted on the website. It may still be there. But with some of the things that have been posted on ET over the last 2 years, who knows? At any event, the website should be your first stop. But when your reach that asterisk that reads "*IB may on its own...

Female entrepreneur, 29, accuses VC, 73, of sexual assault on plane https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Female-entrepreneur-29-accuses-VC-73-of-12614954.php To which I must observe: "The snake! And on a plane!!! Who knew??" :D [Your mileage may vary. Objects in mirror may...

AND IT MISSES THE LONG AT 2330. "FAIL."

1) I'd get 'em on the horn, not via a ticket. 2) Reject out-of-hand any response which links the *purchase* of a far-OTM option with any increase in risk. 3) Reject out-of-hand any response which links the purchase of one far-OTM option into any sort of spread, WITHOUT FIRST RECOGNIZING THE LONG...

I'll be setting up my TWS/API Java test-bed on The Great White Horse (a water-cooled gaming computer that I picked up for maybe 25¢ on the hardware dollar. :wtf:) AND I've got a spare bedroom/bath in the front of the house that I was thinking of putting on AirBnB. (The rest of the house is a...

Edit/GlobalConfig/Display/TickerRow/Complex(Multi-Leg)Positions: check-box You have "Group legs into complex positions" checked, and there is an error. I'd give "Hide complex positions" a shot. ((You may or may not have "Simplify combination ratios" checked -- I'd uncheck it, just in case.))...

That is so whacked. I have a starkly stinky feeling that if you changed that to a short vertical (of whatever width), it would go through jus' fine. And if you changed it to a *long* vertical (of whatever width), it'd go through jus' fine. I wonder, too, if your nearly-ATM *owned* put spread...

Only a second to review, KK, but are they (or their *algo*) afraid that you're turning a $20-wide at $2350 into a $1050-wide at $2350? Were you previously naked anywhere in puts for that expiry? (Quantities aren't clear here, and I've only time to eyeball.) If not, whut happened to the other...