Recent content by Terikan

This is something I've given a little thought to. Most stops are about 8% below the price after the breakout. In other words, a loser is an underlying that is eventually exited at 8% loss. Usually no more than that, sometimes a little less, maybe 5% min. Since the point of using...

I concede when examined closely there's little difference. I should have scrutinized it a bit more. It could remain a strategy for people who want to put on large positions now with less immediate risk, rather than smaller positions some time in the future. Thanks.

I came here from google actually looking for variations on entry signals. Here is a decent basics for trend following: http://www.followingthetrend.com/the-trading-system/trading-system-rules/ It only lists ATR stops, but you can have other stops, such as consolidation support levels...

If you are like me, then you have compared charts of etf's where one side of a pair takes the short side, and the other the long side. Or what happens after a long enough period on a non-leveraged etf and a 2x or 3x. It never really occured to me, no matter how many times I saw how the loser...

Ok so let's say buying OTM strangle, selling ATM straddle. Same results, but what are those results? Will the movement of the price and time decay benefit me? I took a look at a recent options chart, and it appears that at a 20 point move on SPY, buying 140/180 strangle and selling 160...

Which is probably most people reading this. TLDR: 4 leg premium garnering straddle strangle swap thing, idea 2 is selling VXX leaps. Idea one. Sell a straddle at the strike, buy ITM strangle, where the goal is for the strike to eventually hit one leg of the strangle before expiration...

the mobile app, and I think the web trader will display lagged values, which is good enough for me, but due to this, I'm a little skeptical that the lack of realtime numbers is the problem and not something else, but I def will opt into the 1.50, thought it was 5 bucks a month. I know, I'm...

Is there another platform I can use through their gateway that's more user friendly? Such an idea is totally foreign to me, but willing to give it a try.

TDA? TD ameritrade? I'm on IB's TWS. I have the columns for volume and open interest, but they are always blank, I'll look for decimal place settings, haven't seen any yet. Thank you.

I figure I will have a few of these, so going to just keep it to this topic and hope someone can help. Even if it's just by pointing me to an online guide or manual. But after googling, I haven't found what I'm asking. Firstly, looking at option chains, I cannot get anything but...

I'm too noobish and sitting here without any tools to get a handle on this. I was into the idea of looking for good short box premium arbitrage, but in the event IB commissions and fees are too high to make anything out of it, was wondering about a box that extends over two expiration periods...