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While Firstrade requires no minimum balances to open an account or invest in equity securities, we do require minimum balances in order to place certain option orders. The following table lists the option strategy and the minimum equity required to place option orders:
This journey to establish my account took approximately six weeks, primarily due to the meticulous compliance process at Firstrade. My first trading activity was executed on September 27th. In line with standard industry practices, I receive individual confirmations for each trade I conduct, which includes specific confirmations for each ...
I think $109 is not applicable anymore, some members are grandfathered at that rate, but new members normally pay $159. #9 - you have to be CA member to get the $119 promotion. Otherwise you pay $159 for TradeHawk/Tradier combo (or can do $40/month for Tradier only via our old promotion.
IWM 16 Delta Short Strangles. As you can see, if you just sell 16 delta short strangles in IWM, you can expect to make 10.93% in profit, if you commit 50% of your buying power. Now let's have a look at short straddles. tastytrade has shown in a study that you can expect to keep 40-50 % of the daily theta if you sell atm short straddles in SPY.
Firstrade on the other hand has no commissions on any options at all, not even index options, but they do not allow time spreads (calendars and diagonals) on index options. You absolutely have to read the fine print of the fee schedules and understand your own trading to find out what your real costs would be.
earnings. Our regular readers know that buying an a long straddle a few days before earnings is one of our favorite strategies. IV (Implied Volatility) usually increases sharply a few days before earnings, and the increase should compensate for the negative theta. If the stock moves before earnings, the position can be sold for a profit or ...
Just applied to open an account with Tradier. It asked for a promo code but I didnt know. I guess using the link provided by @Kim should be enough?? Also, I want to go with TradeHawk. Do I apply for TradeHawk account separately or do I just tell Tradier and they take care of that? And where and t...
Hi guys, anyone trading Vix options out of the EU? If so, have you used other platforms than IB . IB charges a heavy 2,5 $ for placing one outright option.
I was at 1.50 with TOS for years. About a year ago (maybe a bit longer), suddenly TOS became open to lowering the rates. I managed to get down to 0.75, and I know many others who also managed the same. I also heard that some managed to get down to 0.60, but they were doing very large volume. I do...
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