TDAmeritrade allows 5% of your total account balance to sell naked options.

Is there anyone else that allows a higher percent?

Tommybaker 

TDAmeritrade allows 5% of your total account balance to sell naked options. Is there anyone else that allows a higher percent?

actually i think that is a pretty fair deal but don't know of any better deals. mark

OptionXpress does. I currently have about 30% of capital tied to margin requirement for selling options.

walker 

OptionXpress does. I currently have about 30% of capital tied to margin requirement for selling options.

I just spoke with an OptionsXpress customer service and they said in this hypothetical scenario:

Selling March 13th 156 Calls at .54 would require a total of $3,949.51 per contract, which is about 1.36% of margin requirement...

The main selling options thread is here:

Selling Options on Futures? I have been selling options on futures for years. But it is rare to find others doing it. I was wondering if there are others here doing it. I have been doing it for 5 years. Learned it from James Cordier's book. I have sold energy, grain, …

Since your thread title is so similar, I am going to close this thread to prevent a split topic. You can re-ask your question in the main thread, or you can use the Broker section of the forum.

Mike