Search results

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you short on downticks in the extended hours? Sometimes not at levels below the regular session close though. Last time I checked, although Nasdaq was considering the benefits of the NASD’s short sale rule in after-hours trading, it was currently...

Thanks. Where can I find out more about this? I'd like to know what the official regulations on this are b/c this has implications for after hours equity trading, at least in theory (e.g. if you are informed, you might have preferred to take a position via options but such route may not be...

Can you elaborate please? Also, what about pre-open? Can institutional traders do it? Thanks.

Can you guys trade options after hours?

Thanks a lot guys! This thread has been so helpful and is another proof to me of what a great resource ET is! Good Luck to all of you.

Thanks richtrader! It's actually very similar to what I thought I'd end up having to do, basically reading character by character to see where the spaces are. I was hoping there was an easier way :D I guess not. Thanks a bunch!

It's about 800Mb in size excel doesn't have that many rows. I can import it into some other package and export it with another delimiter, I have just tried tab delimited. It does the same thing. I think it's because once it encounters a text field, it treats this variable as text and not...

OK, don't laugh :D I know this is probably easy for some of ya. I'm trying to read in a large text file line by line, break it into variables and then do some filtering etc. The file is space delimited. I do smth like this: Open "c:\CrspVBA.txt" For Input As #1 Do While Not EOF(1) 'Read...

If you don't add funds to the account, and don't withdraw anything and are flat at the turn of the year, can you just report the change in the account $$ size for tax purposes? It's already net of fees, commissions etc and should match what IRS gets. Having to itemize each trade and separate...

Anyway, I came here not to argue but to clarify something that seemed odd. I think I did. Thanks a bunch guys for your input and don't flame me if I didn't seem humble enough :D

I don't see your point. Yes, I happen to have a PhD from an ivy league school and do know the option pricing specifics relatively well (it's not my primary area though). Understandably, when you ask a simple question like I did and someone takes you for some beginner moron and starts telling...

Thanks White17. Actually I'm not using options at the moment, I'm just doing the equities and things seem to work OK. I was thinking of branching out into options and only looked at the delayed stuff to "test the waters" to see how things would have worked. Where can I get access to cleaner...

Thanks White17. Actually I'm not using options at the moment, I'm just doing the equities and things seem to work OK. I was thinking of branching out into options and only looked at the delayed stuff to "test the waters" to see how things would have worked. Where can I get access to cleaner...

:D Any good alternatives out there (not outrageously expensive)?

Makes sense. Except I wasn't talking about an individual case and it just can't be always the case :). It seems to be that way pretty much all the time I look. I think it's b/c the quotes I look at suck. Thanks.

I was looking at the right places. The problem was (I think) the quotes CBOE.com provides besides being delayed are very poor quality and don't reflect the true action.

Where did you see dropped? I said it spiked. Again, there's is no free lunch. The free lunch is in the equities position I'm trying to hedge and no I'm not gonna tell you where that one is :D. I only need the options for protection against those occasional times when the lunch is not there...

That's what I was hoping the problem was. Thanks. Then again, if they are delayed, they could give more or less reliable data you'd think. Is there a good place with reliable option quotes that isn't very expensive?

Thanks. I actually was looking at the bid/ask quotes too. But the changes there were just way to choppy and far between. Also, why would the volume go down? Wouldn't at least some people wanna liquidate their positions to capture the put gains etc? I would have thought the volume would...

Come on man, I was just being simplistic. Trust me, I do understand the models, the greeks etc. In fact, that is the precise reason I started the thread b/c what would have been a perfect delta hedge in theory does not appear to work in practice at all. So getting back to your points, I do...