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Perhaps the optioncoach can tell us the difference between these two ideas.

If there are people making millions of dollars by trading the markets using magick, they sure do keep quiet about it. Several other approaches to market success have many visible practitioners: Floor Trading: Jon Najarian, Tom Basso Naked Options Selling: Max Ansbacher Stock Arbitrage...

One way to think about the question "What investment returns can I expect to make?" is to obtain data on the returns made by top money managers, hedge funds, CTAs, and so forth. These guys and gals charge fees, pretty steep ones, but still deliver wonderful returns to you the investor, even...

Like JayS, I trade the COMEX (NYMEX) metals over the phone. I don't trade silver but I do trade copper, platinum, palladium (and also gold) this way. Average trade duration is two months or thereabouts.

These underlined things are hyperlinks. You can click on them. Introduction (1) Introduction (2) Explanation (1) Explanation (2) Pictures To learn more

M. 50th, 75th, and 90th percentile of distribution of (Margin to Equity) ratio

Title: Advanced Option Pricing Models ISBN: 0071406050 Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071406050/

If you're into options, the options book by Katz and McCormick is remarkably unlike most others. Unlike McMillan, Trester, and dozens of others, it ISN'T filled with graphs of value-at-expiry versus stock-price-at-expiry. Instead it's got fresh new ideas about analyzing options positions, and...

Backtests themselves don't "succeed" or "fail". They merely exist. It is up to you, the living breathing human trader, to INTERPRET a backtest You may decide "I don't like these backtest results" and thus discard the system. But keep in mind that this is your CHOICE (and other traders...

Unfortunately the role of luck is under-represented in this exposition. Just as it is over-represented in the aphorism " I'd rather be lucky than smart. "

Do you use PC-SPAN software to compute margins? Or just call your broker's margin department?

I don't think it's correct to assume that traders maximize their utility by "fixed fractional" betsizing. People love to disagree about whether the proper fraction is "the Kelly criterion" or "Vince's Optimal f" or "half-optimal-f" or "one third Kelly". They forget to challenge themselves on...