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Hello All, A friend of mine from college recently opened a trading company using a kind of artificial intelligence that he developed. It supposedly inductively learns rules from a given set of data. I saw the outputs and they are very very impressive. However, before I commit money, I want...

I'm about to start trading options with IB. However, I'm having problems understanding their margin rules regarding spreads. Say, I'm want a position: Long Dec 92 Call at 14 Short Dec 80 Put at 5.6 Aside from the difference in the prices, how would would I need as margin...

Agree with ya there buddy. Sure, luck (intuition, feeling, experience - and the rest of the non-quantifiable things out there) is a HUGE part of trading stocks. I can tell you from experience that studying the formal theories is actually pretty bad for trading. But that doesn't mean...

stockoptionist, so the basis of your analysis that we'll do better than the Japanese is that we are culturally superior? Forget prejudice, that's just one hell of a burden on rational trading.... good luck trading, with thinking like that that's all you are running on. Kinda makes me...

Hello everybody. I know nobody here likes the 25k rule and everybody wants to do something about. I want to do my part by taking an academic interest in it. Since I'm in school right now, I have the time and resource to conduct a study on how the 25k rule would really impact the day-trading...

Hey guys. I'm going to be starting school at NYU really soon (in 5 days, actually). I've been trading stocks and options for four years with good results and have a really strong background in economics/finance. I have interned for various hedge funds in the past. I figured that some of you...

I'm thinking of opening an account with Interactive Brokers mainly because of their low commission. I tried out the demo of their software online and noticed that it can't find any option contracts for QQQ. I figure a lot of you probably use IB and have traded QQQ. Does the actual trading...