Recent content by mothman

Long or short options the key is to trade to a plan and proper money managment and risk control-have your rules and stick to them. Yes when short options you have theoretical unlimited risk and limited reward - however the risk can and should be managed (though even then the market might bite...

I am relatively new to options (on futures), and have been trading for a year with the assistance of an advisor. While it has been a great learning experience (plenty of gut wrenching near misses and a recent big hammering) I would really like to trade using my own ideas and plans. My...

Thanks OptionCoach. These are good for options on stock, but what I am specifically looking for is options on futures. Any more ideas on this?? Thx.

Before I committ to spending big $$ on a program such as OptionVue with charts showing historical vs implied volitility - does anyone know of any free or subscription based sites (at a reasonable cost) that have this information expressed in a charts format? Appreciate any advice. Cheers.

Ive done that myself - if you have ever been inside a toilet in a Chinese rest stop or service station you will understand why. There is possibly no more toxic place on earth.

You gott be having a go right - are you for real??

You only have to go to China and see what is happening to realise this notion that China has overbuilt infrastructure is false. Overbuilding is occuring in condos etc., but in terms of infrastructure like highways, railways, airports etc. they are in continual catch up mode. The highway from...

For Optionetics Platinum users - does the Optionetics Platinum analyse options on futures (commodities) because I cannot figure it out from its intro?

I assume TOOL was being sarcastic - if not then Gold help us! There is a very funny video making the rounds on the internet where Americans are asked in the street who they would bomb next if they were in charge. Countries ranged from the usual suspects to include France and Italy...

Whats the problem with OPTIONVUE? As someone without an options analysis program (or pricing feed for that matter) I am interested in the pluses and minuses of the various futures/options programs. I was leaning towards OPTIONVUE actually!

They must be crazy in Belgium! Its cash! I can't see this happening any time soon in Singapore or Asia generally for that matter. I once brought back a few $$ - about US$30K from HK in cash and needed to change it to S$ at a little hole in the wall money changer - I thought it was a big deal...

I guess I don't understand why crude would go up because of refining problems. I can understand why refining problems would lead to increases in diesal and other crude by-products, but can someone explain the rationale on why the state of refineries would have an impact on crude prices?