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Check macmillan's site. Several tools and calculators there.....free. www.optionstrategist.com

I still think stops are beneficial as a form of mental discipline. It can become very easy with options to delude yourself that the position is going to turn back in your favor. After all, you've got leverage working for you. Right ? It can be rewarding to trade options as long as you...

Hell, gas is 4.14 a gallon here today. I'd love 3/gal.,

I think the stop is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too low. Just My 2 cents.

Great response !

The phone system is 1950's vintage and once the signal makes it to the server it still has to transit the satellite to get out of here onto the grid in the real world.

I agree with GNOME; Maybe it's the wrong game. In my situation I have never had ping times under 1600 ms. It takes 250ms to ping my ISP who is less than a mile away. Consequently, I had to tailor style and trading product to what the system will allow.

What Riskarb said!. Been using IB strictly for options for years now. Mostly OEX and am generally pleased.

Tried to access mine today but got a message that it would be availabe 3/8

I too almost always route SMART except on a series where there is no market available at ISE. What I have found is that SMART will oftentimes route to PHLX by default when ISE isn't trading that series. I'd just as soon send an order to Bumphuque, Egypt before sending to PHLX. In this...

If you are swing trading why not just keep a spreadsheet open that is a duplicate of 1040 schedule D. Enter your trades as they execute. As far as IB having anything to do with whether your order to buy between the B/A: Once you send the order, IB is out of the equation. I find that ISE...

Don't fight the trend. Take little bites. Get out too soon.

41 years. There have been a few changes over that time

I'm long QQQ leaps and short November calls. Long OEX calls but will close that position today most likely.

Well I'm an option trader but not a chartist. Nevertheless, those lows are getting higher all the time it looks like. Don't think I'd have put that one on. But hey who knows? good luck.

I don't care who takes the other side as long as I'm happy with my fill. It is axiomatic that when you buy the market will drop, and rise after you sell. As DEF says it would be impractical to reverse engineer. Impractical and highly cost inefficient. Sure there are outfits using orderflow...

Electron: I keep a spreadsheet running all the time for each trade and total trades. Often times the P&L window in the "account" window wil show a loss on a position when actually the trade generated a gain. It is always a result of FIFO on partial positions. Could this be part of the problem?

All I can think is that THEY are expecting vol to increase and are taking in some extra premium to offset the risk.

Resinate; Are you seeing this increased spread in both puts & calls?

Well it seems to me it was back on the old forum in about 1997 or 98. Long enough that I can't recall exactly what happened. he just showed up on the boards one day and pretty soon everyone was inundated with spam from the guy. Seems to me we must have caught him in some contradictions...