Recent content by jim.thornton

Thanks for the input everyone!

I'm not really looking at following their trading system exactly. I was really more curious if anyone has used it and if their indicators are at all accurate. I read an article about a year ago and ended up deriving my own system from one sentence that was in this article I read. That system...

Don't be so ignorant! I'm asking a serious question. Keep the trolling away please. You don't think it is possible for someone "somewhat" new to a forum could possibly ask a question about a service that charges money? Does anyone have anything worthwhile to input about this please...

I was curious here if anyone has subscribed to TradingVolatility.net and if their volatility strategies actually work in real life as they claim?

So lets say i have a 10k USD account invested in ITM long term options. . How do i figure out what my currency risk is? The specific trade can i make to offset it?

I'm not fully following you. Is there not an etf i can use that will allow me to continue to trade US securities but remove the currency risk?

I've been wanting to stay away from futures and forex because my understanding is that if things go against you, you can actually owe more than you started with.

I'm a Canadian trader but my account is in all USD. I would like to greatly reduce/eliminate my currency risk to USD. Right now if the USD goes down or CAD goes up faster I'm going to get killed. I would like to be able to hedge this risk, but other than buying UDN I can't think of anything...

@ironchef: Writing call options and/or covered calls is not the "TastyTrade" way though. Their strategies include selling strangles and such at .16 deltas. I've been doing .11 deltas Iron Condors and so far things have been going well. I've also done some other trades that I've kind of...

ironchef... Why did you decided to stop trading the tastytrade way?

Just to clarify, why i say a lot of answers are wrong, I mean the ones that are telling you to buy certain strategies or watch top traders, not recommending books.

Most of the answers here are tremendously wrong. I don't care who you are, but nobody can successfully predict the market. Everytime I read something like that I am reminded of the Robert Deniro movie about sports booky/brokers. YOU AND NOBODY ELSE CAN PREDICT THE MARKET LONG TERM. Sure...

I am Canadian and the restrictions that you are talking about do not exist. First, I have traded with Questrade and they are a bunch of thieves, don't trade with them. The commissions are somewhat lower, but it's still VERY expensive. I've setup an account with Interactive Brokers and their...