Recent content by buy23jim

I agree 100% with the last post. Nobody knows where the market will be. That being said, Dent gets a lot of grief about his Dow 36,000 prediction that he should not. He was predicting that the credit bubble would be directed mainly toward the stock market as opposed to the housing market...

Is there a way I can set up these contingent order(s): I want to put in a order to cover an iron condor I sold. The current price is $2.75. When the price drops to $2.08 (10% profit for me), I want to trigger a stop order so that if the price rises to $2.39, a limit order to buy my...

I am having a severe brain freeze and cannot figure out how to do this on trading plan I am working on. Say for instance, I want to put in a order to cover an iron condor I sold. The current price is $2.75. When the price drops to $2.08 (10% profit for me), I want to trigger a stop order...

You are doing what I am doing. Trading SPY (and some RUT too minimize commissions) (Iron Condors, Butterflys, Calenders) every month with guidelines I have taken from Dan Sheridan webcasts. Betting small (1 to 5 contracts) and seeing if I can actually make money using income ideas after...

I think Mr. Dent addresses this on his website. I believe he said that housing was an alternative bubble that took some of the juice out of the Stock market bubble.

I would suggest at least finding out about Mr. Dent's ideas as he has been more right than wrong over the years. I don't think you can live or die by his exact number predictions but his conclusions have been more correct than not. He has been giving fairly regular interviews on the...

It looks like we are just about at a 61.8% CD extension from the A(3/2/09) to B(6/8/09) on the weekly chart. My C point is 7/6/09 week low. My D point would be around $105.39 From the 2007 Oct high to the March low appears to be generating a 38.2% time extension from those March lows...

I have found Austrian Economics to be a helpful view to use when looking at economic issues. There are many good books on the subject as well as free podcast books and other information at the webiste: http://mises.org/

Has anyone had any experience with Options house? I am planning a switch of brokerages from Options Express to TOS, but the commission's on Options House looks very enticing. I am a newer swing/position trader that trades mostly stocks and ETF's in IRA's. I would mainly be using puts to...