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KB96, When you play bull/bear spread, be careful, one leg covers the other. When you go in/out, you buy/sell both legs together, or cover the short before selling the long, otherwise you'll have a naked leg... and may forget... and surprise! nasty phone calls! :mad: Cheers!! :p

This site : http://www.hoadley.net/options/calculators.htm has a great educational tools to price the option contracts if you are interested in all the mathematical side of it, VERY academic. You could calculate the price online, or d/l the excel spreadsheet and calculate off-line. I like...

KB96, To give you my track record: I openned an option trading account with 2000$, 6 months later, the balance is 256$. :( Therefore, I don't think I am entitled to give you any suggestions on what to trade, other than the previous post which I explained how one could loose $$. I am...

Hi KB96, I don't know if you have been trading options long before openning your Datek account, or you are just beginning trading options. If you are a veteran option trader, please ignore this post, but if you just started trading option, I am seeing a few mistakes that all newbie option...

It took me a few weeks to understand all the mumble jumble 'squawking' when I was daytrading at a daytrading firm. It's just as bad as at a car auction (or any auction!). I liked it, it gives some auditive live entertainment after looking at the lev2 screen for too long. However, a...

... maybe it's your firewall. Try to decrease security or turn it off . (bummer!) Cheers! :)

... off topic... Nihaba, You could look for those programs such as AdSubstract that will block all add banners and cookies from sites of your choosing. You could also get those "pop up stopper" programs that will block pop up adds, however the one I used also prevented me from right...

... sorry, my earlier post was for Cohiba, and not T/A Bo... :( Cohiba, Being caught in a gap that goes against you is different for a daytrader than for a swing/position trader. Being a 'swinger', I think your stop loss is much farther than for a daytrader. If the stock gaps and...

... it's funny how people who post sensible and intelligent questions don't get replies like "...you'll get killed..." as seen in some threads.... :p T/A Bo, trading is great, better than sex, and sex is better after a good trading day, you'll see.:D One thing I noticed is a lot...

I've been using Quicken Quotes Live. I think it gives a good price/value. I like the software. However, I'll have to cancell it soon, because they don't have any plan to include future quotes. :mad: If interested, go to Google and search for Quicken.com + quote live Cheers! :)

a few more... ROTFLOL = Rolling on the floor laughing out loud TIA = Thanks in advance ... personnaly, I prefer the smilies :p Cheers! :)

Well, I talked with my accountant tonight, and we've decided to consider it as business gain/loss. However he will ask a fiscalist tomorrow. Personnaly, I much prefer to have it as business income, with which one could deduct much more expenses than capital income (with capital income...

... hehehe... beside, did I mentionned that I didn't (forgot?) do my taxes last April?? ooh la la!!! they sent me two reminder letters... the second gave me 30 days to submit the 2000 taxe... and the 30th day was... yesterday.... ooh la la!!! the taxman took away all my...

Axehawk, I see what you meant.... so far, the first two years I did not have any gain; first year loss, 2nd year flat ! and guest what, I am very happy! :) , therefore my main income would be the regular job, however, for the long term, IF EVER I could have a gain that is equal to...

Cdntrader, Thanks for the infos. I'll print out the website and show it to my accountant.... and hope he'll give me some discount... after all, I (you) am doing all the research for him !!! :p Beside, the bulletin is dated Feburary 29, 1984, I wonder if there are any changes...

I think there are a lot of Canadians on this board, maybe you could help. I work 4 days/week at my regular job, and daytrade 4 days/week at a daytrading firm (yes, that's 4+4) and am a Canadian citizen/resident. I talked with my 'new' accountant, and he said that the gain/loss in...

quote: " Put up $10K of your own money, trade 100-500 share lots, real time-real money, and then see how well you do. " Heck! if Vlad is fortunate enough to be able to learn to trade and test his program with the clients' money, than good for him. :) Except that the clients will...

Rogue just said the same thing I said, 'cept he has nice pics ! :eek: My friend has 3 hardrives, one for WinXP, one for Win98SE, and one for Linux, and he just swapped them back and forth... I think he just like the swapping, 'cause I am not really sure what he is using all 3 OS for...

Happaboy, Maybe you could get one of those mobile rack that will allow you to physically remove the c:\Win98 hardrive and place in the c:\W2K hardrive. That way, you don't have to worry about incompatibility of softwares between the two as in dual boot system. Each hardrive will have...

I think, by nature, women tend to be more of an investor (long term) than a trader. They like to marry to things... you know what I mean.... :p However, like Candle mentionned, there are some who date trade.... but then, those don't (need to) pull the dough out of the market, but...