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Yes, DonnaV, I know. I consider both of these options to trade options. :) Subject probably make people confused, sorry about that.

2 ra1, Take it easy, Could you recommend good books to read on options trading? I read few, they are ok, just explaining how options work, but w/out - how to find best trading opportunities in real market. Thank you.

2 Arnie, This exactly what I am talking about. I am not really understand the math you provided, though I think the right math is: 72.92 - 4.30 = 68.62 70 - 68.62 = 1.38 - this is your max gain, isn't?! By the way, do you know how covered calls impact on you tax returns? Is it really a...

I am here to learn stuff, so I don't take as an offence.

2 ra1: What do you think about this article: http://www.smartoptionsreport.com/Archives/2005/20050131.html Still does not make sense?

Thank you guys for input, very informative. When I write calls deep in the money I want my position to be assigned as soon as possible, from your input I understand that if I write leap calls I can wait for year to be assigned. :-( How about buy stock and write current month ITM calls, how...

Hello ALL, I am newbie to options and I'd like to discuss writing Deep-ITM covered calls. What are advantages and disadvantages of this trading strategy. Let's say, I bought XYZ at 10$ 100 shares and sold against my position deep ITM leap calls of January 2007 at 7.5 strike price and received...

So what happen is you always will be off if you bought at the ask and stock goes against you you have to sell at the bid, huh???!

So basically you 're saying price must be in between to get filled. If I bullish and market goes south then my probability to get filled on initial limit bid price much higher then before, because my limit actually became a middle/between bid-ask price. Thank you.

Hi ALL, I am completely newbie for options trading. Please tell me is it possible to get filled on options on limit bid price? How do I calculate which price to ask in this scenario: bid ask 0.40 0.65 And how about selling on limit ask price? Does it matter which broker I use to...

Hi ALL, I am newbie in options play, I'd love to hear from experienced options traders, how do they use stops in their play. I do know how to use stops in regular trading, but kinda confused how you can use it in options. Let's say today is November and you think stock is going up, you see...

Exactly, what I see sometimes it's just in uptrend analyst downgrade stock just to take people out, as their stops executed and then you can see how stock moves up. How does analyst then explain his downgrade to public? Looks like they just playing together with MM, buy shares from the weak...

No, I think I was misinterpreted, I don't need news on upgrade/downgrade, I need to know why analysts upgraded or downgraded particular stock... Thanks

Hi ALL, Is anybody could tell me, where I can see the reason for upgrade/downgrade any particular stock in US market? Why the company was upgraded/downgraded? Thank you in advance.

Oh! I was thinking it's only me, so I on last Friday did format C drive and reinstall everything but it did not help I got frozen screen again today morning few times , I had to restart my computer but it did not help I 've got frozen screen again after 15 minutes work of TWS after reboot.... :-(

I am not sure I understand what you're saying... :-(

Hello ALL, I was wondering if anybody knows the way to calculate trailing stops, one will exit out not in the middle of trend but at least on it's 80-85% trend run? I don't know maybe on base of longest candle or move to bigger time frame? Any ideas, How do you calculate your trailing...

Hello, Could you please name all software available on the market that support this type of chart like candlevolume include java webbased streaming charts? (I know Metastock does have it) Thank you.

Sorry for newbie question, If I will use software that required datafeed from esignal or qcharts, how much it will cost me, same price as if I would use esignal 49$ a month or it would be cheaper? If it will be the same what is the point buy different software, if you anyway need to pay the...

Where exactly in TWS I should look to find IB scanner? Thank you.