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Your limit order must add liquidity to get the rebate of $0.002/share. If your limit order takes liquidity there is a charge of $0.003/share. In addition, there will be reg fees and commissions. The credit offsets any other fees. If your credit is higher than the charges, you keep the balance...

I believe there is information missing. If you have a lack of trust, try another broker.

Who is broker 1 and who is broker 2?

With broker 1, was the order sent to EDGX and was the order from Broker 2 sent to EDGX? Are you sure both are routed to EDGX?

Are both orders sent to the same ECN?

antares66, I just want to point out that 2 is not the limit on Lightspeed Trader. I'm not sure what the limit is. Here are 6 with order tickets.

Pekelo-I have no evidence that a short naked ATM put or a covered call, which is similar, is a better way to take advantage of the desire to be long a stock I have chosen will outperform the market. Then, if I take any stock after the fact that had great upside momentum and then backtest any...

What value do you get out of backtesting an option position when you know what the stock did over that time period?

Maybe our website will help-Click on the Margin tab. https://www.lightspeed.com/futures/

Did you look at the CME website? look at all the tabs on each link. It is all there. https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/e-mini-dow.html https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/e-mini-sandp500.html...

maxoptions, pay for any good futures software, create a watch list, include the symbols you want to watch, add columns for BID and ASK, then export to a spreadsheet to do your math. What value does this have?

An ECN is like an exchange in that buyers and sellers meet there to trade. An ECN does not provide liquidity. MMs provide liquidity so you can buy/sell when no customer orders are present.

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Good morning tradingpoker--My best suggestion is to learn as much as possible about options, how they trade, how and why they change in price etc. Then, never start with "I like a spread." Study the stock or index. Develop an opinion based on data, charting, fundamental etc. After you have a...

gowthamn, this explanation is worth reading. https://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/risk-management/span-overview.html. You can also sign up with the CME for free and get access to CME CORE and CME QuikStrike. https://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/margin-services.html...

Good morning lightfightercap, There are few exchanges that have a COB, not all 16. Assuming your order is sent to one of those and not held internally, there are a small number of Option Market Makers (OMM) that scan the COB looking for an edge to "their" values. The National Best Bid Offer...

Span Margin is a moving target that changes with the risk of the market. PM by the OCC is an old system that has had few updates since inception. Instead of updating the OCC TIMS calculation and risk rules, the OCC hints at what it wants clearing brokers to use and require them to have more...

All futures and options on futures are also 1256. https://greentradertax.com/trader-tax-center/tax-treatment/section-1256-contracts/

CME SPAN Margin vs OCC PM margin will not be the determining factor. It will the house risk that your broker allows. You should give their risk team a similar portfolio in ES and SPX and ask them for the house requirement. Remember to use double the size for ES as it is half the contract size...