TheBramble
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Not exactly market-neutral when you take the spreads into account. And the MAY Short (to use your example) would place him in exactly the same position as the original position he'd taken - they'd also want a stop too far away to make R:R sense.tomorton said:e.g., you are ong on the FTSE April at 4010 and want to place a stop at 4000, but the SB firm won't accept it this close. So you place an order to go short on the FTSE May at 4000. Admittedly, this leaves the problem of how to stop the May short, but you should be left at least market-neutral.
Sorry to be unhelpful, but even with a trading pot 1000 times larger, your problem would be the same. I assume you're going for 'guaranteed' (
(a) As suggested above - set a mental stop and commit the time to the trade OR
(b) Move away from 'guaranteed' stops - they're not as guaranteed as you'd expect