Recent content by Even Steven

yeah, I do enter the trade through the Combo button. But I enter from the main TWS window, and have OptionTrader open on a second monitor. Reason for this is I like to save the Order entry line after the transaction, because then I can close the condor with one command, but I also like to see...

not really a video, although there are many recorded webinars on IB, including OptionTrader module. here is a workaround. prepare to sell a credit spread (either call or put), then right-click, check Margin Impact. Record this number. then cancel this trade. then prepare to sell the iron...

billybuster, I am also using IB to sell puts (and calls). since I usually always sell a credit spread, whether a put or call spread (mostly both, ie. an iron condor), I cap/define my margin expense. Yeah, selling naked takes a lot more margin, which is why I stopped doing it. And IB will only...

wow, not too much recent interest in selling puts. only 2 posts in 2011, then prior posts all the way back to 2004! so here goes an attempt to re-start this thread. I am a short strangle trader, mostly on US indexes like SPX, RUT, and the "minis" like DIA, IWM, SPY, QQQ. Doing fine, I sell...

Hello All. I am an options trader, or more accurately an options seller, mostly of indexes like SPX and NDX, also some equities.