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Again your trading platform should let you look at each available expiration month, each strike in that month, and volume and open interest for each strike. Plus bid/ask, greeks, probabilities, etc. Here's a picture for the FXE ETF at the COB yesterday. Using the ToS platform. Notice that it...

Yes, exactly. And that's clearly stated on the OCC's data page. Best

Not sure what platform or database you're using but my three sources (ToS, OCC, and CBOE) show the following at the COB today (16:00 EDT/20:00 UTC). Of course the numbers vary by a few contracts between data sources but all pretty much paint an accurate picture. Daily Options Volume COB...

Here are a dozen currency ETFs listed with the highest daily volume first then descending to the lower volume (and OI) last. This information is a combination of data gleaned from the ETFdb.com and the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) web site daily stats site. Note that Some of the following...

According to an article in today's (June 7) Barron's magazine (Theresa W. Carey's Electronic Trader column) OptionsHouse and tradeMonster, are merging in a deal engineered by private-equity firm General Atlantic, which has a substantial financial-services portfolio and previously owned stakes in...

Understand. That's why I sent you to the CME link. The CME has ES OI and Vol. info for all the ES products including futures and options. All that info is in one spot on the CME's web site. As an aside, please note that Livevol does not, at the present time, offer trading capabilities for any...

Why not try the CME's website. They own the ES symbol and publish volume and open interest at the end of each business day. Both ES futures and options offer good liquidity (that's my opinion , I trade ES options spreads.) ES futures vol is about 1.5 million a day, ES options trade about...

Yes, my ThinkorSwim platform has it listed under the Trade Tab as /SIZ7 with 1389 days remaining until expiration. I looked at the options chain for that contract and don't see any bids/asks, open interest or volume associated with that symbol. All the /SI trading activity seems to end with...

I'm relatively new to Options. I don't see the term "PM haircut" mentioned in any of my lierature or books. Nor does a Google search find that term (in the context of options trading) either. For my education could you explain PM haircut. Thanks

Thank you for that info. I've been in contact with Global and will set up a demo account. They are recommending the Zen platform. I'll research that as well as the others. Best

Which Global's trading platform do you use. I am currently trading the YG contract at ToS but am considering trying another company/platform. Thanks

Greetings, I received this TradeStation message today. The new stand-alone TS Fx platform rolls out in a week. Should be interesting to see what the platform looks like (i.e. a duplicate of 9.0 or something close), spreads (it's not commissioned based), etc. Their relationship with GAIN Capital...

Do you use MBT's Navigator platform or MT4? And why? I've been trading MBT demo account for a couple of weeks and am not sure about the Naigator platform. Thanks

You may want to consider the ETF options. Especially the SPY (or DIA, QQQs, IWM, etc.) In the case of the SPYs there's heavy volume, lots of open interest, strikes a point apart ($100), penny pricing, 100% electronic trading, and very narrow spreads. I started a couple of years ago with the SPYs...

No spam or offers (of any kind.) Same great service and trading platform. Very good customer service. Big into communicating with their customers with their Wed. chats and chat archives. Only downside is that the platform is becoming more complex as time goes on and there's no user manual or...

I'm not so sure that the folks at Traders Accounting are correct. While they are of the opinion that the ETF options (SPY, QQQ, DIA, etc.) are subject to the 1256 rules (i.e. 60/40 taxation) others are not that certain. Robert Green (http://www.greencompany.com/) said, in a teleconference...

Simply sell the call that you bought. For example. Let's say on April 14 you bought a June 08 SPY 135 call for 4.25. On May 2 the June 08 SPY 135 Call was trading at 8.35 (that's a real scenario by the way.) You simply sell the call back to the market at 8.35 and the 4.10 is you profit (less...

Thanks. That's good advice and about how I trade also. Credit spreads are well suited to my style of trading i.e. risk adverse. I like to know the risk (and potential albeit limited profit) going into the trade. Being risk adverse suited me well during the 35+ years of flying DC-9s and Boeing...

I noticed that through the day today the Bid-Ask apread was about .04-.06 on all the contracts. I would gusess that's due to a relatively volatile market today (SPY off 3.05, the DJX off 3.16.) In any case the SPY B-S spread is, as you and others have pointed out much narrower than other...

Would you care to explain what, exactly, a "propulsion surge" is? This old retired jet pilot ain't never heard about using "propulsion surges" in the flight line. I have used jet engine propulsion (and L=T/D max) to go a lot of places but never recall having surged about in the flight line...