SPX Credit Spread Trader

Quote from dagnyt:

Here's another perspective: I've already opened all my Nov/Oct diagonals and am about halfway filled on my Dec/Novs.

Mark
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I wish I had my Oct/Nov diagonals in place right now, I liked the prices and strikes the last few days better than today. Strike selections are a bit thin for the Nov/Dec but it looks like there are some good plays there. Just need to keep looking for the right opportunity.
 
I did have a "funny" today. As soon as SET and margin released my flying fingers landed a "wonderful" credit fill on a 1370/1385 bear call for 2$...fortunately at the time I was chatting with Scott & Steve (cachecash) and they said WOW...hummmm are you sure that was OCT! Holy crap no....it was NOV:eek: they said ask TOS to bust the trade. I was hesitant but finally did and they DID! WHEW....no more flying fast fingers for me....
 
Quote from RichardRimes:

I did have a "funny" today. As soon as SET and margin released my flying fingers landed a "wonderful" credit fill on a 1370/1385 bear call for 2$...fortunately at the time I was chatting with Scott & Steve (cachecash) and they said WOW...hummmm are you sure that was OCT! Holy crap no....it was NOV:eek: they said ask TOS to bust the trade. I was hesitant but finally did and they DID! WHEW....no more flying fast fingers for me....
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Wow, that's impressive. Too bad they don't operate in Canada :( . Did they originally take the other side or your trade or did they basically sold you one back for $2 to make you even? They cannot really bust the trade from a third-party, or can they?
 
I didn't realize such a thing was possible. I wonder if I can ask them to bust my trades after they get into trouble :)

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have no clue how they did it...just know they did it...my trade was null and void after my whine :)
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Quote from tplast:

They cannot really bust the trade from a third-party, or can they?
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Here's how it works: The broker asks the party (or parties) on the other sdie of the trade if they would be willing to let the customer (who made an error) out of the trade. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. But, I have never heard of a broker who would take the trade just to let a customer out of the trade.

Mark
 
Quote from dagnyt:

Here's how it works: The broker asks the party (or parties) on the other sdie of the trade if they would be willing to let the customer (who made an error) out of the trade. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. But, I have never heard of a broker who would take the trade just to let a customer out of the trade.

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That's mostly correct, but I know of many occassions where the person on the fortunate end was not asked. As far as I know, the broker can bust the trade without permission if it is an obvious error.
 
Quote from Cache Landing:

That's mostly correct, but I know of many occassions where the person on the fortunate end was not asked. As far as I know, the broker can bust the trade without permission if it is an obvious error.
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I can understand that if the price is far away from the market, but it would be chaos if trades inside the market could be arbitrarily busted.
 
Quote from Cache Landing:

That's mostly correct, but I know of many occassions where the person on the fortunate end was not asked. As far as I know, the broker can bust the trade without permission if it is an obvious error.
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In all my years as a CBOE market maker, I was never FORCED to bust a trade. We did it when we felt it was really an error.
Things may be different today.

Mark
 
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