Recent content by EmilyZ

Cheaper commissions? Thats impossible. Try keeping a lower percentage of your profits and paying more in taxes. I studied tax law for a year...time well spent. I highly recommend it. Capital isn't needed if you have a job and any financial skills, I'd recommend both.......as for the rest...

That's going to require 1-2 years of in-depth education that will be the best invest of your time, ever. Unless you invest your time into something like saving the world, growing baby, whatever. Start with OptionAlpha.com The sign up is free, their beginner courses are free. Take all of those...

I do not understand why anyone would need to trade at a prop firm anymore??? Just use your own money. If you know what you're doing, just set-up an LLC and that will give you professional trader status with the IRS and a bunch of lucrative tax breaks. Then you trade in the LLC and write yourself...

I started out as an options trader and I can tell you this.....quality of thinking on options strategies will but you so much further ahead of the game than just writing code. Your brain is superior to a computer....the computer will do what you tell it to do so YOUR ABILITY to think, solve...

100% per month is ambitious, but 100% per year is very VERY VERY VERY realistic if you know what you're doing trading options. I would map out a collection of ways for you to do it but that would be an excessively long post. Just saying....as an options trader, 100% return on capital in a single...