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Yeah -- that's correct. Because if you try to carry the front month all the way to expiration, you run into the risk that those unrealized profits that were already available to be taken -- as I did with a 30%+ gain in 2 weeks -- could get away from you if the underlying price runs away from...

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Allow me to chime in here, coach. TOS papermoney often does fills at the mid price, which is kind of unrealistic for papertrading. Using an underlying like SPX with a wide bid/ask spread just amplifies this problem. I overcome it (somewhat) by manually backing it off the mid price towards...

Keep reading, keep playing with TOS, ask a lot of questions. That's how I've been learning ... Picking strikes depends on what kind of position you're putting on and how much risk you are willing to assume. That's the most open-ended sounding description but you'll find it applies.

$20,000 in my account and a 1995 Honda Civic. Look out Wall Street :D

Full moon June 18/19. Gravity, baby, gravity. :)

You really should sign up for a brokerage account with thinkorswim. You can papertrade, live trade, and analyze anything you could possibly think of regarding options. On a calendar or time spread, the sold front month option is sold by you at less than the value of the back month option...

You're referring to Tony Saliba, who wrote a very good book for anyone new to options trading --- The Options Workbook: Fundamental Spread Concepts and Strategies for Investors and Traders. optioncoach's book is --- The Option Trader Handbook: Strategies and Trade Adjustments by George...

Clear the decks... Optioncoach in mentoring mode... This thread is bookmarked... Free advice to the neophyte options trader: Read optioncoach's 2200 page thread "SPX Credit Spread Trader" posted here on EliteTrader. A large amount of useful practical knowledge is to be found...

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you make money in the options market. Good trading to you!

Their core business is going completely down the drain -- auctioning off specialty items and rare/unusual collectibles in favor of trying to be the new AMZN. New management doesn't have what it takes to be heavy hitters in the retail market. EBAY has a severe identity crisis -- buyers who...

Ditto... anyone?

Not to mention that with IBM we just saw a double top at 130 and it looks like resistance might be forming there though it's still a little early to tell. RSI was over 70 during the day Friday and now has only dropped back to 67 at the close after the underlying dropped $0.50 off the day's...

Hello --- I'm papertrading options with a TOS account. Exited a position I had on SPX today at .05 off the mid. I know papertrading doesn't give completely realistic fills vis a vis mid and b/a spread, particularly if the b/a spread is wide. I'm going to adjust this trade in my trade...

SHOULD be easy -- now I get it. You're not really trading. Thanks for the tip.

Link? Can't seem to find anything to read on this. Thanks.

Can't get past the autoupdate initial page and their website isn't loading here... Everything else net related seems to be up for me...

IBM announces on Wednesday -- is there someplace that lists prior announcement dates, say for the last 8 quarters? I was looking in Yahoo Finance and some of the other usual spots but couldn't come up with this one piece of information. Any help?

Good luck with that.

QSL - ham here also...