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Your reward to risk odds are 1 to infinity. Why do I need to explain this? Trading 101 man, get with the program!

Why would you ever want to sell to open a straddle? Unlimited risk, and profits are capped! Terrible odds! If you want to sell some options, you should consider selling a strangle.

I have the CFA Charter, and I am here to tell you that no one on ET has any business getting the Charter. Go for something useful like the CMT. The CFA will do nothing to enhance your trading ability.

Cramer would say that is a good thing.

FYI - OptionVue only has linear IV, which makes it difficult to model out earnings skew trades. Not to mention, OptionVue is masssively expensive and slightly antiquated.

Charlie don't surf !!

Wow, you were sucking wind from about 1998 to 2003, way to hang in there!

Hmm.. I wonder if they have any emerging markets products to sell me??

I agree - entering all of the trades at once is suicide.

Sorry, that's not the case - probably a symantics(sp?) issue here. By iron butterfly I mean you are short at two different strikes, with your long wings positioned accordingly. Using calls this would be a bull call spread positioned with a bear call spread. Perhaps this is referred to...

What is a good program for coding and backtesting? Can Trade Station do this type of analysis?

You gotta watch the vols on butterflies also - if the vols fly then you're toast. I prefer calendars or iron butterflies for my "stay still" strategies.

Put the bong down, dude! N225 is up 0.32%.

GOOG is just a search engine, folks. Remember the hype surrounding YHOO back in the late 90s? Guess what - the same exact thing will happen to GOOG eventually, whether you like it or not. Lets run down the facts: GOOG has non-existant barriers to entry Trading at a PE of 46 - you are...

The risk is not being 100% long in emerging makets and missing out on some spectacular gains. Shorting emerging has been a loosing bet lately, but of course now the MSCI EMF is due for a pullback. The best you can hope for now is a cash return, so it would obviously be a better bet to just...

Optioncoach has it right, but he did not mention that you SHOULD be rolling covered calls on a monthly basis at one standard deviation out on the strikes for 30 cents or so. It creates what I call a long-dated diagonal position. After six months, you have lowered your cost basis and halved the...

A good contrarian indicator that hedge funds, buyout funds, and value added real estate (a la Blackrock) have peaked.

Someone could make a **TON** of money creating a game for the Wii that simulated trading in the pits. That would be cool, and I probably would never leave the house.

I am writing Jul 07 50 puts - and I hope I get put! The valuations are very compelling long term. This company may not have much of a pipeline presently, but they will inevitably sort things out over the next 10 years. Buying below 10x EBITDA seems like a pretty compelling valuation for a...

Are there any good sites out there to back-test a strategy on? What software is the best for back testing?