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you cannot trade vix and futures

Fidelity is the best now after making zero commission fee. U need to pay only 65 cents per option contract and no base fee. their interface fidelity active trader pro is pretty good compared to IB. no minimums , u earn 1% interest for cash after all expenses. nothing can beat fidelity right now.

Any Idea where the Market is heading ?? Do u guys think SPX will hit 2010 ??

Thanks for the info, its very useful. The only reason I opened this trade is as u mentioned SPX is overbought and overstretched and there is a good option to roll to higher spreads marching towards all time high. I don't want to open these trades every week. Only when there is good opportunity and if its worth taking the risk.

Sold vertical calls on "SPXPM" for March 18th 2070/2075 for $.30 credit. Risking 10K for total $600 Profit. Where ever a good opportunity arises we can discuss selling vertical calls/puts in this forum.

1) March 18th Vertical calls. Planning to sell vertical calls on "SPXPM" for March 18th 2070/2075 for $.30 credit. Risking 10K for total $600 Profit. Any thoughts appreciated.

My only objective is to get valuable suggestions to fine tune from your vast experience and other senior traders with "SO" experience and results will be in place. I have been trading options for a while with other news letters and on my own with different style and strategies. I like "SO" trades as they nicely blend for all market situations. I am trading with the amount that's way below my risk tolerance. When we hedge vix ($1000) trade with butterfly trade, like the last one the contract amount was $575, in that case is it better to open two contracts ($1150) or just one contract??

What is the easy way to cut and paste from excel file. When I paste it it converts to text. performance.xlsx

Is there any separate forum where we can discuss monthly performance. Looks like 4 butterflies were able to balance loss on VIX calender. we need one good trade so we can be in profit for this month. Hope AMZN helps on this. INTC 11% $110 4 butterlies 110% $1,100 Combo Loss -6.25% -$62.50 NFLX Loss -44% -$440 Unrealized Vix Strangle -12% -$120 Unrealized Vix Calender -100% -$1,000 1.8% commison on 10 trades -18% -$180 -$593

You are correct. Epotion doesn't let us do calendar trades on VIX. For $1050 margin I can trade 7 VIx contracts at IB. ANd comission for 7 legs is (7* $1.57 ) *2 = $21.98 . So its $21.98 + $21.98 = $43.96 to open and close the trade. Does anyone pay less than this commission. Please suggest.

I think eoptions execution is very efficient. They are on par with other tob brokers. Only thing is we cannot execute more than 2 legs at a time. Their trading platform is not good. They are planning to release new trading platform next month. I think it should take care of that issue.

I use "IB" and fidelity. Looks like "IB" is charging "$1.57" per vix contract and also "$1.54" for SPX contract. Planning to switch to eoptions when i trade more than 3 contracts. I think they charge "$.79" for SPX and "$.69" for vix contract plus $3.00 per base per leg. I think other options trade at "$.19" per contract with $3 base per leg. Have any one used eoptions ?? How much does trade station charge. they say "$1", but with misc fee how much doe sit come to ?? Any suggestions.

I bought "OIL" ETN at "6.10"( I think WTI price is ~ $34.5). I am planning to buy more if it hits ~$30. I put limit orders to but at $30, $25 and $20. Let me see how it goes.

why does oil price goes down when "USA" rig count and inventory goes down. It has to follow the world wide inventory right not just USA inventory right?? Looks like oil price went up this week but worldwide inventory didn't go down. any idea how it works