Recent content by Kaya

Adamoptions, I traded derivatives for a retail firm for over 5 years. In this period I witnessed hundreds (if not thousands) of people speculate using equity options. I played too. The overwhelming majority of these people failed to make any money--consistently. I believe that this market...

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A pennant should form over a time period of less than 3 weeks. :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused In which stone is this written. Pennants can and do form on weekly charts, daily charts, hourly charts, minute charts. Do other formations occur over strickt...

Reg T states that minimum margin is 50% for equities....so why can we borrow more?

Hope this helps..... http://www.nybot.com/specs/dx.htm a timely inquiry....

Gotta love the wedge...I traced it out a couple of days ago and sent it out to friends. This one should be interresting....

Doji... I write ITM calls frequently usually with existing positions with a view to buying them back. I do this in my RRSP as well. I usually look for stocks with the best premiums but the MM on the ME make any option trading on Canadian shares terribly difficult. I'm long lots of Gold...

I live in Canada and am a Canadian citizen. I lived for several years in NYC and have property in Florida. For me the differences b/w living in the States and Canada are quite pronounced. Canadians love to bitch about taxes, and with good reason...if you're a working stiff there is a lot to...

I dig silly.

Thanks everyone for your responses. I don't care what anyone says, ET has great boards... as for me...well...I'm taking the job at Swift for several reasons, mostly because I bought a multi unit building about a year ago and used up most of my free cash to secure the financing...then I...

X$....the whole thing with them hiring 'traders' with NO experience seems a little loopy to me. I honestly don't know how they expect newbies to make 5-7k a month within three months...but if you only keep 30% ya gotta if ya wanna eat...k

Thanks dna....your story jives well with the info i have...so what gives? Did you leave? Were you hired? The reason I ask is because I was offered a job with them recently and am pondering things right now. They told me traders average 75k a year. Sounds high...is it true? k

Babak.... Search? I saw the reviews under "Brokers"--Swift has a discount brokerage operation which I know has a really bad reputation. I'm interrested in hearing from an employee (past, present) trading the firms capital...k

I was wondering if there is anyone that has worked at Swift Trade as a prop trader that could share their experiences with me, good or bad... Thanks in advance, Kaya