So I profited 820 dollars on a deep ITM options spread and received this email from Tastytrade
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let the grown-ups talk boy, I understand that you are in your puberty and need to handle some hormones, but we are trying to get to the point of why Tastytrade complained about that trade.
completely different type of broker.
You've been spoon fed. The answers are here.
When we apply logic to sentences, the devil is in the details. now that we agree that some brokers take the other side of your trade.
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Why is OP allowed to trade then?
Shouldn't that trade have been blocked in the first place if it was against the broker's policy?
I am happy to accept that is just a software failure and that they didn't handle that workflow exception in their business model, but we need an explanation and you seem to have all of them.
I don’t know if that broker can prevent the infinite combinations of deep in the money strategies that the OP could have done with the same risk.
My broker would allow me to put the trade on but there is no situation where I would be a settlement or margin risk at 5 contracts. At a million, I would.
My broker would allow me to put the trade on but there is no situation where I would be a settlement or margin risk at 5 contracts. At a million, I would.
Awesome, you applied logic to a sentence and won a pedantic argument that some brokers take the other side. Tasty trade doesn’t so you point is now extra stupid.
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He's not. He was put on closing-only.
It's not a software failure. Chris at TT is not a bot. He implied that the trade is stupid due to fees associated with expiration. There is a suitable alternative that is superior and does not incur additional fees associated with expiring ITM.
Nobody cares what you expect..
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You missed the point entirely, I appreciate your knowledge in the matter, I really do.
I am asking the question because I am trying to understand why TastyTrade would complain about the trade.
I have an account with them and I was planning to move my executions from Interactive Brokers to their platform. Now if I understand that they didn't check the input of the trade properly and that was against their policy, I am more than happy to accept that is just a software error, fair enough.
But if they allow that trade in the first place and then they complain about it, all sorts of conspiracy paranoias come up. And as a future client, these things don't play well.
You seem to be taking it as a personal argument, it is not like that.