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I have a few point to make about what this guy said: 1) If a Nobel winning scientists tells me something has been tested and shown to be true, with empirical evidence that survives significance tests, I am not inclined to disagree with him (or her, methinks I should tread carefully!). 2)...

goddam machine.. here it is

I started another thread about the Alex series of cartoons in the telegraph http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=110577 Anyway, practically no-ones looked at the bloody thing. It is a daily insight into City humor, and frequently makes me LOL. see today's entry

Despite the plethora of beautiful women, it makes me think of the Elephant Man.

Hahaha... LOL

Hang on... if I understand this correctly and you disregard the greeks, you are saying the only way to profit from options trading would be to correctly speculate spot @ expiry??!! A more aggressive line to this argument would be to say that the only way to profit from options would be to...

"The Most Gut Wrenching Trades are the Winners" I couldn't disagree more. Once I'm in a trade, I'm pretty much on autopilot - I have all my "what ifs" covered and I know what I should be doing and when. The real gut-wrenchers are the trades I DON'T make - pulling an order because I...

Thanks for the correction. I still stand by writing contracts against 10 x SPY instead of SPX though - professional options dealers (which, I hasten to add, I am not) prefer this route. My understanding is that if the shit hits the fan, liquidity in SPY is better than in SPX (though perhaps...

I'll add that there are simpler ways to generate income from selling spreads - look to collecting theta and vega before making Gamma trades.

check out www.ivolatility.com sell OTM spreads "cheap" when IV is higher than normal for premium income... (though I'd suggest using 10 x SPY instead of SPX or OEX... i *think* SPX is still only pit traded and european... OEX is eurpoean but dont know re: Pit / elec trading). As you get...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ (Alex cartoon can be found from link on the right) Anyone else follow the trials and tribulations of Alex and Clive? It is the first thing I look for in the morning!

ThinkOrSwim works on a mac

Firstly, I'll state that I trade intraday on Price and Volume action alone. Whether Macro matters depends largely on the strategy used to trade particular products over particular timeframes. For a typical trade with a life expectancy of under an hour (e.g. a punt on the front month YM), the...

Hello everyone, The Dollar will be a good buy, but not so soon. The Sub-prime debacle isn't over, infact the worst may still be yet to come. There are plenty of defaults "waiting in the wings" as the honeymoon period of low interest mortgage rates ends, and rates reset to levels which...