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Exercise procedures are semi-manual for the most part. You must place a request with the brokerage to confirm that you wish to exercise the option. This is usually by phone unless they provide a way to do it otherwise. After the broker confirms your request via a Registered...

With over 30 years experience as a software engineer and engineering architect in a field requiring mission critical software ( financial systems ), I respectfully disagree on this point. With lower wage programmers in the US, you will get inexperienced or lower quality individuals...

I have been following this thread for a while, and watched a few of the OA webinars. Leaning towards not spending the $6500, but I am intrigued about learning some of the better adjustment techniques for trades gone bad, or hedging across earnings. Does anyone have any good book...

Another difference is that with stocks you have to track every single transaction and report it on Schedule D ( and many D-1s most likely ). Then you have to deal with wash sale rules, and other nonsense. Which makes for a huge accounting hassle, especially for day traders. With FX, you...

Differences between FX trading and stock trading: 1. FX trading open 24 hours for 5 1/2 days. Stocks only open from 9:30-4 ET M-F. This allows for FX trading in the evenings, late at night, early in the morning, as well as during the day. Nonetheless, there are busy times in FX (...

There is a similar type of idea in the "4 Hour Workweek" book, except in that book he suggests working from home to better cover up the enterprise.

NADEX (formerly HedgeStreet) offers binary options which have strike prices and also can be traded out of at any time, not just held until expiration. They also offer something they call "Bull Spreads" which are really just range limited options which also can be traded in and out rather than...

The biggest problem we have now is we have a situation where almost 50% of the voter population are paying ZERO federal income taxes. Some are even GETTING PAID from the government (tax credit) even though they haven't paid anything in to start with. And you have Obama trying to bring in...

Just wait about 5-10 years and see how they feel, if you aren't outsourced or downsized first. If you are still in the field by then, you will likely have maxed out your income potential, be ordered around by some MBA-type idiot that has no concept of how to design or implement anything, and...

I agree completely. Have been in software engineering field for 25 years now. When I started out, software engineers were respected scientists who were paid well, had decent benefits, and solved worthwhile challenging problems. Management believed in fostering creativity, rewarding...

Nope, but they're still talking about their future there....

If you are not currently married, this may be the best time you have to take this shot at getting skilled at trading before other risk factors and obligations set in. That would argue in favor of trading now, accepting the probable risks of one or more small wipeouts along the way. It is...

This is pretty ironic actually. When you read Market Wizards you will read stories of people that took the last $2K they had and went for it (Richard Dennis), people that blew $500K and borrowed from their friends and family and finally made it, people that wondered if they could feed their...

Because most people are already LONG the housing market and bought too high :D The real problem was the false demand that occurred from the ridiculous loans being handed out and very low down payments, interest-only, balloon payment ARMs etc that enabled people to "justify" buying a house...

v and vi are contradictory. v is unnecessary if the woman satisfies all the others anyways. x is wrong unless the woman is < 25. Second best if has no kids, but has been in love once with a man who left her stupidly, but she thinks its because she failed to satisfy him properly. She...