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You should date someone who's more than 5 feet tall then this won't be a problem anymore.

You're kidding right? The volatility of late has been even below the historic average. There's no way you've been trading for 7 years if this type of volatility is just now causing you pain. Did you trade around Sept 11? Spring 2000?

How do you do this? I looked at the tutorial but it looks like the latest version of the software differs from the tutorial. There aren't any controls at the top of the Options panel for changing price, IV, and Days-till-exp like they demostrate in the video.

I doubt there's more than 10 or 15 people on ET who qualify for PM, and they're probably all using IB. However I'm interested in TOS. IB's PM is hardly better than Reg-T so I may switch to TOS.

does their PM tool let you change numbers? For instance, if you have positions on SPY, does it let you enter hypothetical values for SPY and volatility to see what your PM would be?

1.4 was the best. I regret ever upgrading to 1.5.

Well I did the opposite of the OP. I gave up a 190k/yr office job to trade full time and haven't looked back. As a trader, the pay is better, plus there's the freedom, 1-minute commute time, less hours, and no office politics and bullshit and deadlines. When I had my office job, I looked...

Roofers are very well paid but it's a dangerous and very unpleasant job. You have very little work in winter months because of weather, and in summer you're up on a roof when it's 95 degrees outside which means the roof is about 120 degeres. Even the most brave guys I know couldn't stand on a...

Wow, so these are the components of the stock_trad3r ETF (OTC.BB:LOSS). after you posted this, I have a feeling short interest on those stocks will double tomorrow

Dropping 2.5% equates to "falling thru the floor"? I can't imagine what life would be like for a lot of people here if the SP500 dropped 6% in one day. 3/4 of you would be wiped out in 24 hrs

A retail trader can do it too but you need software to scan for the arbitrages and place the order automatically. The opportunities appear once in a blue moon.

OEX and SPX index options have comparable liquidity and better spreads to ES, and commissions are lower than ES. Farther OTM options on ES have bigger spreads than OEX and SPX. I like ES only because they have EOM options with a full range of strikes and decent liquidity, whereas the index...

I, too, feel delight in his misery.

don't bother with this, it's useless

I can't believe a thread about hardboiled eggs got this many replies. Anyway, I do weight training and used to eat 10 a day, so I am a credible source on this matter. After cooking and peeling hundreds and hundreds of hardboiled eggs (and I had the blisters to prove it), I can say that the...

SBUX Jul 30C : Bid=0.20 Ask=0.25 , ouch maybe you outta sell. you should have bought SPX Jun 1300P EOM and Jul 1250P, you woulda made 75% in a couple of days and it only took a 3% movement in the underlying to make that much

you lose a month's gain just because the market dropped 3%? you need to adjust your strategy because this type of drop will happen a 10+ times a year. what happened to zero-risk trading? as for me, I made over 12k the past 3 days. :cool:

LOL!! You've been reading too many jr high social study books. You think Iraqis are better off now than 4 years ago? Destroyed infrastructure, total lawlessness, dozens of citizens killed every day by suicide bombers, and judges and politicians assassinated. That doesn't sound like they have...

can't you just donate the money to a good charity instead? you just blew $11000.

I don't know, people always underestimate how long it takes for new technologies to become feasible. Remember in the 80s when it was predicted that in 15 years, superconductors would be carrying our electricty? Where are those people now? If they say 5-7 years, figure it'll be between 25 years...