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Someone I know is trying to prove his abilities as a day trader. For what period of time would you want to see results before believing in the strategy and his ability to make money and then even potentially investing your own money with him?

So I could have a position size of thousands of contracts in a SPY option and it would be a drop in the bucket/nothing significant?

Hello, I'm looking to get into options trading, and I have a question more about understanding the market and position size/liquidity than trading strategy: How big a position size (dollar amount) could someone take in SPY and it be normal (not market-moving or anything like that)? In the...

Does anybody trade options on exchanges not based in the United States? I live in America and am looking into the possibility of trading outside of the hours of the American markets. Do the volume and liquidity of some of the other big exchanges come close to rivaling that of the ones based in...

I am new to day-trading, trying to keep my entry amount small but I am looking for stocks that give the opportunity for big moves intra-day. So far I have zeroed in on AAPL and FB. Are there a few companies/symbols that can compete with those for price action during trading hours (and are...

1. What % of trades do you strive to win, and what % do you actually win? And do you have a formula for trying to limit your loss to a certain percentage and then have your gains outweigh those losses? 2. Do you use stop-loss orders if you only trade options, and if you do, what % do you set...

1. Is there a trick or strategy or something to know to getting the best fill price when buying options? I try to split the difference between the bid and ask, and often it works, but sometimes it doesn't. Does splitting the difference almost always work on the high-volume options? Is it...

How many stocks/options do you follow/look to trade? And how many positions are usually in your portfolio at any given time? Trying to find that middle ground between following enough tickers so I can get in enough trades and enough different tickers to diversify, yet not follow too many that...