Recent content by AaronCapps

Are you calculating any slippage and commission into your results?

You are talking about the notional value of the contract. In futures, there are no finance fees for the amount of leverage you are using. Although if you go on a margin call, your positions can be liquidated.

Selling options is the only way where time works in your favor, this also carries unlimited risk for very limited profit. Your only option is to track the performance of further out options that will have more time value, or options more in the money that will hold their premium better. Both...

How large is your average winner or average trade? Even though Time Decay might be a problem, usually the options are much cheaper then if you go further out.

Here is an older thread i found in regards to this company. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=66293 although no new information is gained.

entryprice-(max loss/number of contracts/point value)=strike price of call/put you need to buy. 1450 - ( $15,000/5 contracts/ $50 per point { this equals the number of points away]) = 1390 currently 1390 puts are being offered at .95. .95 x 5 contracts x $50 a point = $237.50+comm...

isn't this what ed seykota does, bases his trades off of public sentiment, either with it or against it.

There are several Precious Metals dealers that have been advertising on the TV for many many years. Monex is the main one i know of. They have been in business selling financed gold and gold coins for generations.

You will only have to worry about being delivered, or having to make delivery if you are trading a deliverable commodity. That being sad, most FCM's will notify you when you are close to taking delivery so you have time to get out. If you are delivered, then can have the commodity re-tendered...

Glenn, If you are so sure that Saico or anyone else is a Global Futures broker, then i suggest you ask one of the moderators to check his IP address and see if it matches mine. Issac could have had been an ET member before joining Global. Which is interesting since he didn't know what...

in Saico's defense, he can not be Issac or any other employee of Global Futures. Saico has been a registered member of ET since before Global hired Issac or was an ET sponsor. In regards to using NFA's Basic Search to research a broker. I encourage it, you will see that we have 1 cftc...

i concur with JimmyJam, i see many clients that may have a good trading method/system, but poor money management, little commitment & discipline take them out of the game.

i think you best bet will be looking at the depth or market at the time of your trade, that is the most you could take at that time and it will change during the day. When the CBOT and CME merge and Dow moves to Globex and becomes a product that can be cross margined against ES or ER, i...

are you day trading or position trading?

I get a lot of questions like this for varying markets. For electronic markets, the easiest way to know is to pull up a depth or market window from your trading platform. It will show you how many working limit orders are there. That gives you an idea of how many contracts will have to be...