Recent content by bc1

The RUT can move up to 8 points or more overnight Thursday. Even though the Rut will give an open price in the morning and move around some, they don't compute the settlement price until all 2000 stocks have made a trade that morning. Some of the illiquid stocks can push the time for...

I'm glad you have the spx figured out, elite. I've been kinda lost the last couple weeks trying to figure out what it is doing.

Hello Atticus. Are you talking about using a fly around earnings? I've never traded a fly so I wonder if you have an example. I tried to short an Apr 2 70C/72.5C/65P/62.5P iron condor on qcom yesterday but couldn't get filled at the mark. From 2:00 on, I kept dropping the price as the nat...

With TOS, open the account first. You can immediately download TOS and begin using the platform. Apply for and get all the required permissions which can take a couple days. There is no hurry to fund the account but if you are worried about them closing it, fund it with $10 or so. When they...

Well, they have both blown up their accounts. They both appear to have the same mental problems. They both give bad advice. They both don't understand the markets. Nobody in the sane world would want to follow their advice. Sockpuppets perhaps?

What are dark pools? Thanks.

I've been trading the SPX weeklies for a while. Usually OTM credit spreads and iron condors anywhere from 3 to 6 strikes out using 2 contracts. I shoot for the mid price. Sometimes I get filled right off and sometimes it can sit for a couple hours. Every once in a while I won't get filled...

I'm new at this but I have this suspicion that the institutions are moving more stock, either in or out, by using calls and puts to make the transfers. Then they are using the futures and some day trading to move the price around. Seems like most market price moves occur overnight (actually...

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As long as it doesn't mess with my week2 630 puts I shorted. Thanks for your help atticus. Maybe there will be enough premium in goog to pick up a scalp or two tomorrow.

Too late. The KC Royals already do this. Once a player is worth over a mill a year off he goes to the good teams. Just ask Damon, Beltran, and a whole list of great players that don't come to mind now that have moved on to greatness. The Royals are basically a glorified triple A team. They...

I've run into that. Don't know why as I have the buying power to handle the separate trades. You basically have to buy to close your 48 put and then you end up with a 51/45 spread.

Splains everything!

Read some books like trading for dummies or something that has some basics. Open an account. There are a number of brokers but TD ameritrade has the thinkorswim platform that a lot of traders like and is easy to handle and use as you catch on. They will give you a basic run through over the...

Yeah and at least we just had one big troll banned for his activities. ET is a 100% better already.