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FSU, thanks! I also only see them doing the nite session.

Thanks. What I am looking for is can see very good profits at nite on a spread, but can not grab them. They have done what want, have hit profit target, but can not sell, thus is higher risk without being able to sell as in morn those profits may be gone. When you sell out a limit price you...

At TD the platform updates prices and P/L realtime for trades in after market, but they do not trade them, said afraid customers would get stuck in them due to poor liquidity. IB seems to, here is their page on them with hours https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/cboe-nanos.php Have...

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Lots of good comments. Thanks guys. Well I had trades on, which did not pull off, that lost big yesterday, counter the otion models. Premkt TOS is telling me I will make it 2X back today. Will believe it when see it.

Sounds like you have the best. Maybe someone should put you up for a Noble.

Thanks. You do not have to to that. I trusted the IVs too much. Now with this info I can mentally sanity check it. On those two options the prices are inline if anything Monday may have higher real IV. For my purposes I can look at them and my mind can tell me, they are not crazy prices...

Now that I understand it can adapt. Thanks!

stepandfetchit and newwurldmn Thanks. The IV is coming out of Power Etrade BTW. So maybe it is not apples to apples IV with the option models having trouble dealing with 2 null days. Maybe just a thought the reason they say Monday is so low IV is because they are treating as more than 1...

Friday vs Monday is one trading day, if it is going to move big it will greatly impact Monday too. Indeed on a July option it will have much smaller impact. The huge diff was not there yesterday. Just curious.

Any folks here with a lot of experience on SPX daily options? Trying to figure this out, the debt deal vote today? Or is this normal? I think it was 16x13 yesterday and today 16x11, even saw one Monday with 9.99%. Next Friday is higher IV but think it was still just 13%. Guessing someone...

Thanks. Yes, they have bugs I told them about 20 years ago, still in the program. You do not know what your option commisions will be, it varies trade to trade, and fills are terrible on stocks. Fidelity fills are so good that at market they often give you better than mid on stocks. IB...

I have not trarded options much at IB for years, so not sure. Normally bring up spread thing in workstation and it works. Think it does pair them. Your thoughts on it?

Just had a very long call with TD and pretty good news. They do not allow you to reorder apreads later, but they do have a pairings by original orders that does lock, so will not get messed up. If you roll one leg it then breaks into 2 seperate legs. This is acceptable.

It gets worse, I went back to trying to straighten out the trades, and it did it again!!! Now have 2 calendars that were not there 10 mins ago, who knows what else Power Etrade fouled up. Impossible to freeze spreads as you want them.

I mostly use E-Trade Pro, great except if you have 5-10 different spreads on a stock, which I do fairly often, it will ignore how you bot them as a spread and do its own spreads. That happened today and spent over an hour trying to straighten it out, unsuccessfully. So had 7 spreads (diagonals...

Thanks TheDawn. It would seem that it would be 40% as effective as 100% long calls, which is quite a bit less, but then again the dollars spent to get in are less. My guess without knowing the formula is per dollar maybe 50-60% as effective as straight calls.

In the "Market Wizards" books he picked up that the most successful investor/traders had a consistant oddity. Which was unlike most people that say you have not lost or made money on a stock untill you sell it, those selected for the book overwelmingly thought the opposite. That each day and...

OK. The reason I used the word "dividend" in "" was to communicate that it was not a dividend, but that it was yield/income whatever you want to call it. Silver and gold are criticized as not having any dividends, yield, or profits by Buffet. Which is true. So I was trying to get people's...

Yes emulimu. Back to the question. In past I was able to come to this forum and get answers to option questions by people that knew more than I. If for example 5X3 diagonal spreads were put on SLV in mass, would it generate a gamma squeeze like happened on GME? I have read that option...