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Couldn't the long straddle just be viewed as a special case of the short butterfly in which the wings are (infinitely) far out? In other words, either position includes a long straddle, but you may or may not wish to avoid paying for a very extreme move by limiting what you are paying by...

See http://www.smbtraining.com/blog/recording-noted-author-jeff-augen-introduces-the-weekly-short-butterfly-trade which is a very good webinar (I thought) on how Jeff Augen makes money on the weekly options on individual stocks trading on the long side of volatility. Jeff says that weekly...

There will not be many because options on OTC forex cannot be offered at retail in the U.S. They are not allowed. So you would have to go to institutional options platforms.

Investors Europe will match other offers if you have volume. I have emails from them saying that. PM me if you want me to forward one to you. (To clarify, these were sent to my European address. They are not allowed to solicit U.S. persons). It is a matter of negotiation. It also...

Yes necessarily on average on an overall short position, which is what I was discussing. This is just obvious - if you are selling volatility, you need it to go down, not up. Only not being excessively short premium or legs or volatility. You never know ahead of time when the market...

If it steadily increases it will (on average) cause you steady losses for as long as it keeps increasing.

That's outstanding then! That is the correct way to do it. I would note that volatility has been mostly decreasing or flat for the past couple of years and it will not be quite so friendly an environment when it starts increasing.

I cannot see that there is a problem affecting many people or people would be screaming on the TradeStation forums and they are not - I do not even recall seeing the subject come up in reading thousands of posts there and there are lots of day traders.

That's good! However, just remember that a very common pattern for option sellers who do not have enough risk control is two or three years of strong gains, followed by a devasting loss that wipes them out. In other words, it is the rare events that equal things out, but only once every...

Vendors do customer polls partly to make users feel important and also to get rough ideas. They often do not pay that much attention to the detailed results and votes.

Please back up with a quote your assertion that Chan claims that stat. arb strategies are much better than any kind of momentum strategies or withdraw your assertion. It seems very unlikely he would make any such ridiculous assertion.

Course, their currencies are likely to decline sharply when/if they too succumb to the worldwide trend and cut interest rates, as Australia had to.

They both have their role. Some will prefer one, some another, some both. It is like asking, which is better, apples or oranges? Cars or bicycles? Stocks or Forex or Futures?

It would be impossible to pass through every single transaction in real time over the public internet without risking falling behind occasionally (which is what happens at other brokers who attempt it). It also has no value over 200 msec. snapshots for the typical trader. If you want to do...

It should detect that you are in an English speaking country and give you English. If not, try http://www.swissquote.ch/sqweb/index.jsp?l=e

Wrong. Most brokers will not, but the two I mentioned will (and legally too, under the "unsolicited" exemption in U.S. law).

Open an account with a European broker such as SwissQuote or InvestorsEurope.

I voted yes. I think that real names should be required to cut down on all of the time-wasting antics which I have no interest in.

It is going to depend a great deal on your win rate and time trades are held and the size of the moves. Also on how you enter the trades (because options go to a premium on a sudden large breakout so that is a bad time to buy them). If the moves you trade are very sharp or strong and...

Really you need to negotiate before you fund an account. Once it funded, you have agreed on a rate and they have little reason to change it. The way to negotiate is to tell them what you will pay and not send money until they and you settle on a final rate. You can threaten to leave but...