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I contacted TD support again this morning. At least this time they seem to acknowledge they have a problem.

Here is a condor I entered past Friday at 1.40 credit. Now showing theta=44.99, P/L=-9.99 Advancing one day. theta=45.06, P/L=5.99 Advancing one more day. theta=47.52, P/L=51.24 (pretty much as it should be).

I noticed the same weird behavior recently and it happens with any trade not just calendars. The P/L is in error when advancing one day from current date and after that it gets in step with theta. It also happens with a trade you opened some time in the past when you advance one day from today...

I did not show the details of that fly because I thought most of you watched that video. Seeing I was wrong about that, here they are: symmetric fly 2260/2310/2360 for around $5 debit. RUT was 2330 or so.

David Thomas presented a bearish butterfly on the RUT few weeks ago (Trading Group 1 - June 14, 2021). He said that the RUT had a long run up and the butterfly made sense plus it was pretty cheap (around $5). Looks good at first sight, but ... After the long run up IV was low, so it also made...

I finally had a phone conversation with the Tastytrade agent. After a lot of back and forth talk and some consulting with the margin department or something like that he said that if the calendar is in the money on expiration day and the acct does not have enough funds to cover the cash...

Yes, roughly that amount would have been needed to comply with their requirement. It was not there. Since I did not know how they treat this, I was not looking for a way to avoid closing the full trade. The RUT was climbing in my favor and was willing to wait till closer to end of day. I would...

They directed me to the client Agreement, section 10. The last two paragraphs come close, but the description is still vague to me and leaves room for interpretation. I doubt escalating this through FINRA would have any success and my loss is too little to be worth the effort. Even if they have...

I contacted TDA and they replied: Index calendars are not defined risk since they cash settle and you are not able to exercise early. They different from equity calendars in that after assignment on an equity calendar you have two pieces that move in opposite directions and you are hedged...

I have a small acct with TDA just to be able to keep using TOS and I place up to four similar calendars each week. What was different this time is I stayed in the trade till the last day. Yesterday when this happened my acct was around 3200 and I had those two RUT calendars. The debit to enter...

I had a RUT calendar expiring today. In the morning my position was at a loss, but RUT was going up (this was good) and my intention was to wait and see. I placed a closing order for 3.50 credit, but didn’t have a lot of hope. At 10:33 got a call from TDA to remind me about the expiring...

Oh, you mean this one? Never noticed it, but good to know. Thank you.

Not sure what you're talking about. If it's this, then I have mine set differently. Analyze tab is linked to the Watchlist, so whatever symbol I click upon in the watchlist, it will come to the analyze tab.

On my end it started to work probably within 2 sec after opening.

How did you do it? Via Message Center / Contact us? I'm very surprised you got such a quick reply from them especially on a Sunday.

Now I doubt they will fix it soon. Other people complain about much more serious issues. https://downdetector.com/status/td-ameritrade/map/

Well, then hopefully TDA will fix it. Thanks a lot for checking at your end.

It's Feb 23. And anyway, how come it only happens to SPX?

I cannot set price slices to +/-1SD anymore for SPX only. All three slices come to current closing price. Even after resetting slices or resetting the whole page to system default, when I choose +/-1SD all slices are the same. However RUT or few ETFs I tried work fine. The shaded area for...

Dan, thank you very much!