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Nowadays the price of a divident-paying stock is higher than SSF price, because of poor interest rate. Theoretically, if you are long SSF and short the stock on the day before ex-div day, you will be able to earn profit on ex-div day when the the price of the stock and SSF approx. equal, so...

Hi, My problem is the same. I have an advisor account at IB, and on December 15th I tried to withdraw witch was rejected, however the cash available for withdrawal was a little more than the requested amount. A few days later I initiated a new withdrawal request, now it is in "pending...

I don't want to change or add another internet provider just because of a website. After 5 days, I don't believe that patience will help... Koppanyi

Ghost Typer, Did you solve the problem? What proxy program do you use - if any? Sorry, I'm stupid at informatics, maybe it is easy to adjust the right proxy somewhere in the internet options, but I don't know... I also checked anonymouse.org and IB's website appeared, but account...

Interesting... I also tried now but nothing... Are you in USA?

rcj, Thanks but I'm not expert in servers, so if this program could detect a server breakdown I wouldn't be able to do anything. Tomorrow I'll try to enter IB's website from another PC. However it is unusual that Ghost Typer have the same problem recently and I guess we are not in the...

I have the same problem. For some days I haven't been able to enter the account management. Is it under service? Is there someone who can visit IB' homepage now? Koppanyi

What about IB's homepage? For some days I haven't been able to enter. Is it under service? Sorry if it was mentioned somewhere in the forum... Koppanyi

John, Thank you for your answer. My e-mail was sent. Regards, Koppanyi

I haven't received Passcode Card but earlier an email was sent by IB to activate them. I thought no card, no activating. So, today afternoon I couldn't login to TWS and account management either. I wrote IB about it. After a while an automatic response was received from IB, and wrote that my...

Yes, you were right, in the Java application cache viewer I found the TWS application that run. I saw closing prices... Thanks! K

It's possible, but I cannot connect to TWS because I didn't installed it. I ran it directly from the site.

Can someone enter interactivebrokers.com??? I use java tws, it's not available at all. so trading is not possible today. Shit...

It's unbelievable. How high would oil prices be able to increase because of such countries like Iran and Nigeria?

Hi, Why oil prices are moving sideways? Approx four weeks ago when XLE was at $49.5, I bought a strangle for $2.9 each. By now each option depreciated by $0.5!

Hi Sabotage, I visited on Bloomberg but I miss "OMON". Ivolatily's chart is better . Thank you! Koppanyi

Thanks for your advice, Sabotage, For a week I've bought a long strangle but now I found out the legs were expensive when the underlying returned to the original price level (where I purchased the strangle) and the legs were cheaper. Since the options were long term, time decay didn't effect...

I read the best time to purchase straddles and strangles is when implied volatility of the options is low. IV tells the trader if premiums are low (cheap) or high (expensive). My question is how (or where) we can compare the current implied volatility and the stock’s historical volatility to...

Hi, Calendar spreads are said to be better than covered calls, because with this technique we can obtain leverage since one covered call position may be substitued with more calendar spreads. I'd like to start with it soon but I don't know some technical details. Let's say my account have...

OK, but imagine what would have been if you'd applied covered calls month to month... I think, one of the advantages of this technique is we lose less so our stop loss is the price of the LEAP. What do you suggest instead of calendar spreads? Which strategy is the safest?