Why didn't my options order get filled ?

Newish to trading,been crushing it on imaginary trades,and decided to enter your first order, which was a 500 lot..

Nothing like sticking the big toe in the water

Dont feel bad,your imaginary P and L exploded...








JohnBartle said:
I'm kinda sorta newish to trading. Actually I've been making imaginary options trades for a LONG time but almost never have made any real options trades. I typically make very accurate and profitable imaginary trades tbh. For whatever reason today I finally got the courage to finally put in an order.

My order was:


Entered:11:10:57 05/12/22
Buy to Open 500 SPY MAY 13 2022 380.0 Put Limit 0.30

The offer was equal to my bid but nothing got filled at all. My order was NOT all-or-nothing btw.

I don't understand option's volume well enough maybe? I'm using TD Ameritrade and the order book showed an offer amount of over 1,000 in the que. It was probably closer to 1,500 contracts offered.


Why didn't my bid get filled ? I would have made $16,000 man:(
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taowave said:
Newish to trading,been crushing it on imaginary trades,and decided to enter your first order, which was a 500 lot..

Nothing like sticking the big toe in the water

Dont feel bad,your imaginary P and L exploded...
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Well, I'm running out of time. So, I'm getting pretty desperate and willing to face my fear. Once I make 20k or 30k I'll have the confidence to make real trades everyday. I can win that in 1 trade easily - I just have to calm down, relax, clear my foggy mind a little and face my fear.
 
JohnBartle said:
Well, I'm running out of time. So, I'm getting pretty desperate and willing to face my fear. Once I make 20k or 30k I'll have the confidence to make real trades everyday. I can win that in 1 trade easily - I just have to calm down, relax, clear my foggy mind a little and face my fear.
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Im emboldened to face my fears today too.

Gonna do an all in 200k options trade in the last 30 minutes . Probably a SPY 0 day.

wish me luck
 
JohnBartle said:
TDA support said at the time I put my order in the quote was .30 x .31. He said the ask did not drop to .30.

Well, my phobia got the better of me for the 3,000+ time

I knew it was going to be a MASSIVE down day too.
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SOMETHING ELSE that may help you a lot\
it may shock you to find out how many profitable traders/investors would not risk 16k or anywhere near that on something so low priced.
And most of all you you did not '' knew it would be massive day down.''
Reality checks ,or reality cash however can be even better.
IF i was afraid of something anywhere near 3,000 time i would find out why, because you most likely right to be afraid a of cheap order with that volume.
FEW catch '' the'' bottom or up top tic. Trend study may help??
 
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