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Do you find it profitable to trade macd divergences? It feels like stepping in front of a freight train for just a little upside bounce potential (I'm just asking, not judging).

What's wrong with this assumption. You start a single owner LLC (investment LLC) in 2008. You do an owner contribution of e.g. 20k. You open a trading account for the LLC and trade. You blow 10k within 2 month You close the LLC still in 2008. Income/Losses are passed through to your...

Is there any mobile charting package for a Treo 700p? Anything that allows mini trendlines and TA?

Can someone please explain to me how volatility may help or be counter productive to strangles and butterfly trades? Trade 1: Stock X trading around 50 Butterfly trade Max Gain @ 50 = 200$ Max Loss = 100$ Implied Vol / Historical Vol = 1/1 Trade 2: Stock X trading around 50 Butterfly...

If you buy an ETF like SPY (S&P500) and write covered calls against it (e.g. every 1-2 month ATM). What would be a realistic profit expectation. E.g. SPY trades around 147 Jan 08 148 Calls are ~ 3.5. (we're about a month and a week away from expiration) Let's assume that the S&P...

Can anyone explain how scalping works (or if it does even work for non professional traders)? I understand the concept in theory but I don't understand how you can sell the ask and buy the bid through any trading platform (e.g. tdameritrade, interactivebrokers, tradestation ...) Can anyone...

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Is there a freeware/opensource software package that let's one upload or import tickdata (or 15 second candles) and allows to chart/analyze specific days (and ideally combine it with indicators)?

This is my first post here, so please don't bash the thread right away if this is a really stupid question. Over the last couple month I've tried multiple strategies (from books, wealthlab, internet) but when I take the strategy and add slippage (2 cents),commisions (9$ per trade) and spreads...