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No, like everything else in life, it has it's usefulness when appropriate. Failed A trades can get very messy. But there is a market environment where they will work consistently well. And others where they will chop you to pieces. Same with pivots. The important thing to understand is that...

If you are looking for energy centric, then API is good, oil and gas updates and oil and gas financial journal. All have scrolling news feeds, data, etc. Just search on the app store for the titles I listed.

I'm the wrong guy to talk to Martin then. I don't believe in ism's. Any of them. Ism's are created in the academic world to be studied and labeled. If I'm talking about our government stateside, I'm more interested in talking to people about what role the government should play in our day to...

I can agree with you there for once. Using ignore is just silly. It's very easy to skip over posts without reading them. I do it all the time as I'm sure you can attest to. LOL. It was not intentional with you, it's just that when I step away from a thread and I come back and it's 10 pages...

No, there is some confusion here. These are two different things. The margin for options and the margin for futures. If you are long a put, you pay for the premium in full. If you "choose" to exercise that put and he short the future upon expiration then you now have the margin of holding a...

Options ARE margined. You are interchanging the words. The premium IS the margin. There is NOT "additional" margin on top of the premium. This is what you are confusing. There is no additional margin needed for futures options. Maybe pick up a book this weekend and get up to speed.

Oh yeah for sure.

I still think you are confused. Let's try this again. You have to pay the entire amount of the option premium whatever that price is and whatever that multiplier is. You can call this margin or not, it's semantics. But you have to pay the total amount of the premium. It does not matter if...

On June 24th it was over 7.00.

His dates are off. He could have gotten that price on July 15th and sold it the next day. I'm showing a low near 1.07 on the 15th and a high near 1.31 the next day.

Buddy, I think you are really confused here. Every single option you buy has to be paid for...period. You cannot buy an option and not pay for it. What I think is confusing you is the notional amount of the options. For futures there is a different multiplier then with stocks. And even...

A common mistake people make is relying on sample size without understanding the characteristics of the population from which the sample came from. This gets a little bit deeper into statistics, but you can still get lucky with a large sample size, even a very large sample size. You need to...

Of course USO has margin requirements. You have to put up 100% of the premium.

You really need to pick up a few option books and learn about options before you start trading them. When you buy an option you pay 100% of the option premium. That premium already has leverage embedded inside of it. So if you buy a put for 1.8, you have to pay $1800 in cash for that put...

Do you understand how much money those puts are? If the put is 1.8 that means it's $1800 for that one put.

OMG, how is this for irony. On a business channel, you have Maria Bartiromo interviewing Charles Barkley about Treyvon Martin. LOL http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/18/charles_barkley_on_zimmerman_trial_i_agree_with_the_verdict.html

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/67WhBlXssUA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Speak of the devil. LOL. Cross ESPN off your list. What else do ya got?

You think you are safe there? Wait till Bob Costas opens his mouth again. He is just getting his second wind after that whole gun control crusade he went on. And you know Stephen A. Smith is going to start ranting about it soon.

Well this stuff use be confined to that whack job Nancy Grace. This shit was like heroin to her and she snorted up every once. But it has long left her channel and has now permeated every single news outlet. Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow are turning over in their graves about now...

When the public loses interest? Ricter, I will bet dollars to doughnuts that less then 1% of the public ever gave two flying shits about this trial. Everyone I talk to tells me the same. Why is this the only thing on the news they keep asking me. I have no answer for them. The media is...