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    The Most Important Lessons You Have Learned From Options

    options are the best trading vehicle for a trader. the worst vehicle for an investor. each day there are a lot of good option day trades. R/R >1:2 each week there are a lot of good trades. R/R>1:5 monthly some good trades R/R at 1:20 yearly some good trades R/R at 1:100 the...
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    Breakout and Gap Stocks

    NBG Fundementally it is a recovering stock. think it in the term of good bank, NBG is cheap. I did several successful trades on NBG this year, I bottom picked. currently I still hold 500lot 2015 Jan 5 calls (bought at 0.6 in the 5.5 breakout),just regret I did not sell it in that 6.48...
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    any option firms for fixed rate transactions?

    yes, nbg this week may be just traded less 500 lot. of course that is a scum. definitely. I should not reveal my position. sorry, those morons will buy my calls when NBg hit 10+.
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    any option firms for fixed rate transactions?

    it seems this moron knows everything. I do not need this morons' help.
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    any option firms for fixed rate transactions?

    I am a hired poster. to be honest. I did not make any trading. all imaginary trades. I have 5 imaginary accounts, one margin roth IRA in IB, and one TD ameritrade roth IRA, one general IRA with scottrade. one production account with TD, one production account with IB. I use IB mainly for...
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    any option firms for fixed rate transactions?

    I look for fixed rate option trading. whether I buy 1000lot or 10000lot, just the sveral bucks or 10 bucks. anyone knows some firm offer that? that will be great.
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    The thing about edge

    commission is not edge! remeber those through phone days. buy 100shares cost hundreds. but still there are people make money! nowdays, people buy 10k even 100k shares just 7bucks~10bucks for fixed commission firm. for floating rate, buy 100shares cost 0.5buck like IB. of course if you...
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    Biggest day ever

    up: 13100% down: -99.99% that is what I get.
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    The thing about edge

    Everyone has his/her own edge! and they have lot, not just one! Edge is what you have, and others do not have. since God creates people uniquely. there is no two exact peoples in the world, even twins! people often do not know who they are, or what they have. they try to cat-copy, that...
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    Do you use a stop or no?

    you get it! you get the leverage, plus, you still have the control. if you want to hit big, use leverage is a must. but do not borrow money from soneone who can have condtions on this borrowing, use the borrowed money to enter a position, then the lenders want money back immeadiately, that...
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    Do you use a stop or no?

    someone thinks stop loss as insurance. it is! most insurance is a waste of money, they insurance nothing! car insurance, can not protect accident!health insurance, can not preserve your health. what a laugh, because you bought a very expensive car insuarnce policy, then you will not have...
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    Do you use a stop or no?

    I once attracted by prop firms' payout rate using their money. so I inquired sveral of them. through those contacts, I realized those firms generate profit from selling their platform monthly fee and commissions. they develivered webnair to teach how to trade. all I see is how risk control/TA...
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    Do you use a stop or no?

    I once tried to trade using stop loss. but I found it is a counter-productive method. So I went back to my old style. but one thing I learned is how to control risk. there is several siutiations you must consider risk. 1. margin call, if I use margin, then I must ensure margin call...
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    Stop predicting

    the critical is the trading idea,not the timing method. timimg is hard. when you trade too technically, just like gambling. follow your trading ideas often finally yiled there sults you expect. recently I average down NQ using no margin, gained 50% in days, that is pretty good. but to...
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    Stop predicting

    I shorted the treasure too. when I shorted it from Zb,ZN, ZF,even zt. actually I buy future puts, not the future. so I am not afarid of casual spike, though IB still asks margin, but will not get any margin calls. if my puts go up, my margin increase accordingly, my puts's gain can satify...
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    What is Not an edge?

    an edge means you produce something you expect. for example, you see a market, then you guess/predict it will go up and to what extent in what time period. and it really does as you expected, that is an edge. another example, you read newsheadlines, and you easily figure out what bulls are...
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    Does Anyone Ignore News Completely?

    No, News are very critical to me. I monitor data realease date and also news. so I can figure out what major players are thinking. From the news, you can easily find out whether price is already factored in or not or even the market was cautgt off gurad, their expectation is totally wrong...
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    Reasonable yearly profit threshold and expectations

    as we all know, trading is a gambling. if you bring in 1.5m to trade,you will most likely become "sleep on the street" guy if you bring in 1.5k to trade, next year you may most likely become millionaire the reasons are simple. when you have 1.5m in the account, you think it is large...
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    Diary of a very bad trader!

    bear in mind the smaller the timeframe, the higher the movement becomes randomly you need gamble to win, but donot gamble like a sucker or an idiot
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