Recent content by srolle

if making $350,00 before you are 30 is enough to be on a top 30 list, its going to have to exclude illinois and new york. this is laughably inaccurate don

i wasnt trying to insult you. but you said it yourself, you're just gambling with some extra money lying around. so is it unreasonable to assume your idea of google's direction in the next 2 days isnt better than the Nasdaq mm's who trade it everyday or the hedge funds that buy and sell it?

well thanks for the mangled lecture on the greeks. but you're wrong directional risk and volatility risk being te same thing. he cant. but he can puke up less edge my way. he should just ride it until expiration, that would be the cheapest...unless he knows more about goog than the market...

P.S. profit is an idiot. its much cheaper to hedge your deltas in the stock market. gettng long stock can get you out of directional risk, while giving less edge to the specialists. duh.

with brevity, good trades involve edge. you are making a trade based on what one can read in Natenburg. is that really edge?

it isnt identical. you could get early exercised on your calls before a dividend. you will obviously not get exercised on your puts before a dividend.

so you're going to sell your options, because the theta is going up as expiration approaches? truly genius. im sure the MM's havent thought of the theta curve. they are obviously way overpriced by the marketplace.

you know that some people win the jackpot when they play slots, and most of the time, they will have an up month that month?

because its already priced into the option.... as a general rule if it seems plausible that a second grader could think of the strategy you've thought of, the market-makers know how to accurately adjust their spreads to make it unprofitable.

When you backtest forex systems, do you throw out weekends? thanks, scott

i'm fairly new, but how do you treat weekends for backtesting? i assume you just throw them out, but i'm uunsure. thnaks, scott

hi all, Does anyone know where I could get a list publicly traded companies that rely heavily on exports? Where would I find this data? thanks for any help i can get, scott (first post)