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I tried HG from Comex but there is no liquidity to trade. Any idea?

I am not sure if there is the right place to post this question. Pardon me if I am wrong. My question is where I can find a copper future option market with decent liquidity. I had checked out the leading month for HG option, but it looks dead to me. Without liquidity, no one can trade it...

Re Jim Rogers, the allocation of capital to each commodity is listed on his website. I suppose that the fund is mandated to disclose this info but it can and is used against them by the rest of the market. re spreads, cost of carry is made up of storage plus interest. Easily determined...

To local: I'm a newbie in spread trading. Thx for sharing your trading story. It's a genius play against Roger. Btw, just curious how do you know he had taken half of the open interest, pit gossip? I just started trading bean spread n1- x1 like you mentioned. Missed its 15s level couple...

I remember someone once posted a link to a website, which can show you the optimal underlying price on option expiration so the writers can maximize their profits. Dose anyone still has that link? Really appreciated! Cheers, Lucas

Thx man. I like your simple argument but there is a missing unspoken assumption you made - the appreciation yuan will cause rate go up(my guess ur talking about long term USG rate). Why is that? Can you explain further or correct me if my understanding your argument is wrong. Btw I think...

Seriously man, I am looking for the possible explanation.

I am wondering what's the possible reason for that argument.

Market right now is down and my straddle is ITM. What's the best way to exit tomorrow or protect this winning trade? Suppose I don't want to trade underlying and hence there is no gamma scalping. Any comments are welcome!

More time value in premium so does in theta. I got to that point but never went further to think about what if nothing happens and then option expires worthless. Also I was caught in my argument and don't know why my explanation doesn't work. Apparently I can't use IV equals time to...

Someone said when IV decreases, Theta will be higher, especially when it is approaching expiration, vice versa. On the other hand, I tried to punch in some numbers in the simulator. The result is just the opposite. Also, I had been seeing theta chart supporting my observation. The chart...

I guess ur talking abt american box; otherwise, it will have some cost of carry left in the box. You are right sir. I should use vol or skew instead of IV. Very helpful, thanks.

A: Calls are higher and puts are lower. Thanks spindr0. Your explanation is very clear and makes sense to me.

I think you are right. Could you further explain why higher strike valid a higher option value? It seems to me with lognormal dist, there is a lower chance for underlying rallying to the higher strike than to the lower one. Can't convince myself.

when the underlying is exactly between two strikes, using the same implied volatility for all strikes produces an OTM call has greater value than OTM puts with equal proximity to the money. Why? Is there any assumption on the underlying distribution associate with this argument like normal...

Why I can't watch the vid from various media players. No pic but has voice.

MTE, thanks for your explanation. I dig a little bit in OPRA tick data specification. And I had a question for you. Say paper received two orders from same client and was asked to do cross trade in two accounts both belongs to that client. Paper didn't go to floor and there are no locals...

What do you mean by crossed at any price? Could you give a simple example?

My original purpose of this question is to get an idea of what kind of players they are not guessing their intention from their positions. Never mind, I would like to know every error I made so I won't make it when I am trading. "I don't get this. You don't have any idea if I am keeping the...

Mark, I agree with some of your points but not all. Here are my understanding of every sentence you commented. Correct me if I am wrong. "If I buy 10,000 calls and you can determine that I paid the 'ask' price, then you know that I am buying, and not selling." Yes, I can determine that. We...