I advise you to stick with Interactive Brokers. Tastytrade are an underhanded company who will make no noise if you are losing, but if you win, or look like you may be placing trades that can or will win, they will ban you immediately. I am now on the hunt for a more suitable broker, who will allow me to place trades as I see fit, and will not nanny my account in a pedantic manner. Stay clear of Tastytrade!!
So I profited 820 dollars on a deep ITM options spread and received this email from Tastytrade
- Thread starter Con1991
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lol IBKR's risk-bot will cover your garbage at the market before the close and leave you with a debit balance. I guarantee it. You are literally too stupid to argue (with).
he will be buying $5 callspreads for 5.20 and then complain about how bad his fills are. we've seen this story before.
OP, what happens if you vapor lock, infarc, whatever and you're in this stupid shit? What is the broker's risk if you cannot or refuse to cover the spread prior to the close?
Either the broker executes the spread market to close the position or they let it expire. They are not going to babysit the thing with a limit order. Imagine the time and resources to have someone on the trade desk fucking around with this piker order.
The problem is that if the don't cover it at mkt the piker position results in a $500 account with a 5-lot long put after the short assigns.
They cover the diagonal (STC) at market and you're running a debit balance. They don't cover your shit and they are stuck with the risk on 5 DITM long puts in NDX. Notional of something approaching $100K (5xPrem) on the long side.
Either the broker executes the spread market to close the position or they let it expire. They are not going to babysit the thing with a limit order. Imagine the time and resources to have someone on the trade desk fucking around with this piker order.
The problem is that if the don't cover it at mkt the piker position results in a $500 account with a 5-lot long put after the short assigns.
They cover the diagonal (STC) at market and you're running a debit balance. They don't cover your shit and they are stuck with the risk on 5 DITM long puts in NDX. Notional of something approaching $100K (5xPrem) on the long side.
TT does suck. $1/contract on the front end is not the same as $0.5 per side. Apex clearing is dogshit. TT gives one figure on the desktop exe and another figure on mobile.
The problem, for you, is that your problems with TT are YOUR problems with all brokers offering listed cash eq-vol. There is a reason that there is no *native* calendar spreading on the FOP-exchanges for in kind exp and in physicals.
The problem, for you, is that your problems with TT are YOUR problems with all brokers offering listed cash eq-vol. There is a reason that there is no *native* calendar spreading on the FOP-exchanges for in kind exp and in physicals.
whose going to let this guy open an options trading account with $100
He will land somewhere and the same shit will happen. Another reason to hate TT is opening themselves up to this abuse. He opened the account with a hundo?
Fat-finger trades happen all the time. Yup I know this wasn't one.
But the marvels of coding (fahget AI too) still can't cover all the bases.
Nadex? lol