Recent content by Bilbo Baggins

Here is a link to several articles by a trader that uses Horizontal Calendar Spreads. The articles are rather long, and the author does not limit himself to just discussing option trading. I have no experience trading Calendar Spreads and so I do not know how accurate the information in the...

Jack, For example it would be cool to see a trend change on the weekly chart, the selection of entry on a daily chart and how one would manage the trade. I would like to see this too.

You can find out a lot about Jack Hersheys methods here, the site was set up by Don Cameron who used to be a regular poster on this site some time back, Don is suffering from a serious illness if he is reading this I wish you all the best Don...

Historical option prices are available free from this site http://host.wallstreetcity.com/wsc2/Historical_Quotes.html?Symbol=OXB%20NE&nocache=1431124&Button=New+Request

Yes I look forward to reading it too, I hope it goes well for you. Over what kind of time frame do you intend to trade these options.

Thanks for the reply metooxx, do you know why it does not exist, is it because there is an assumption that no one would be interested in this information and hence no one bothers to provide it.

Can anyone help me out with the above question?

Does anyone know where I can get FREE closing prices on historical option strings. I do not want intraday historical prices just the closing prices

Hi, thanks for posting your credit spread trade. I hope you will get some useful replies that we can all learn from. I am currently learning about options at the moment, but have not yet made any option trades. I think my first option trade will be a credit spread trade something similar to...

My suggestion would be to pick a strategy, i.e. credit spreads or debit spreads, not both, concentrate on that with small size and multiple positions, and not try anything else until you have done a lot of them, i.e. 1,000 plus. Do credit spreads offer a slightly higher probability for making...

Hi Margo, thanks for the reply, and thanks too for taking the trouble to post your set ups, it's extremely educational and very refreshing to come across such a useful thread.

Hi Margo-Trader, thanks for taking your time to write this journal I am finding it extremely interesting. If you would rather not post you p&l, would you be willing to tell us your risk reward ratio on all your trades and your win loss ratio, and your expectancy per dollar risked.

http://www.tradersclub.com and click on FORUM. The url for this should be http://www.traderclub.com/

Yes, I've attended his advanced trading seminar. My advice would be to save your money and spend your time reading all the threads of this site, you will learn more and it wont cost you a cent.