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Oh my God!! Please stop trading SPX Weekly's!! The cost of doing business is simply to high. You should never trade the bid/ask when trading options

The Retail investor in Holland is very active compared with the other countries offering this product

Ignore the above Weekly options. If you want to trade Weekly options you should look at the AEX-index options in The Netherlands. The liquidity is much bigger compared with above symbols. Even the Daily options are heavily traded on our Exchange. Good Luck

In the future, wouldn't be better to contact customer service vs. ET forum. Just my 2 cents

Turbo's (ABN Amro) and Speeders(Citibank) are very populair in Europe. Comp. with futures with a built-in stop loss (but there is a counterparty risk)

Overpriced is difficult...why? It has to do with supply and demand...your estimation of the volatility (absolute and relative), bid/ask, etc. For example, a QQQQ call is trading at an Imp. Vol of 25 but you think it should trade at 24 you will start selling it till the Imp. Vol has dropped to...

Are there no European Brokers like IB who offer Eurex (futures and options) for a low fee (let's see max. 3 euro per lot)?

Thanks, My German is not that great but is it correct that IB is much cheaper than these 3 brokers?

Hi All, Currently an account at IB but I was wondering if somebody knows an European broker offering Eurex products. I only trade DAX & ESTX50 index options and occassionaly a future. I have been searching the web but couldn't find one. Thanks

true, but when markets really move I'm only interested in trade prices and not theoretical prices :D

I have a question about the valuation of SPX options. How do you do this?? I can't use the prices on my screen because of the big spread and I can't ask every day for a quote because the MM's don't like giving quotes without a trade. btw, execution quality is great. Although the SPX was...

I don't. I have a EUR account and able to trade USD dominated products without switching EUR in to USD. Every month Profits or Losses in USD will be transformed back to EUR.

I have been watching RUT for approx. 2 months and a little bit of trading to get an idea of the execution quality. The execution quality is great (Butterflies being executed around midpoint) but if I look at the volume you’ll see a lot of Iron Condor Traders trading this vehicle. For example...

Interactive Brokers offers SMART order routing (also for spreads).

not 14.96% :D Btw, did some more trades on SPX and received nice executions (around midpoint and some at midpoint but that took +/- 20m for they were executed). No outright trades but spreads.

Traded SPX options via the pits and very happy with my executions (around midpoint). If this continues I will increase my size and move most of my trading to SPX.

yep, the markets are changing and imo the US options market is the biggest, cheapest, liquid and most transparent in the World, so for me it's easier to adapt to it.

True but because of the market downturn (low levels) they don't work as good anymore as they used to. Trading US markets have several advantages: (1) lower fees, (2) the best option market in the World and Last but not Least (3) It's getting difficult to combine it with work.

Thanks, I will take a look at it

Thanks for your information regarding SPX and other index options! Why is RUT not a good product to trade? It’s listed on more than 5 exchanges (incl. ISE) and the volume is getting better and better. I also looked at NDX but the volume and Open Interest is lower but don’t have your...