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this is an interesting part of the article i'm talking about.. "Queen of condors" Changes over the years include days to expiration and entry style. She began with more customary 30- and 60-day condors, one of each, but she has now settled on the longer time frame due to the volatility in...

geez what the hell are you trading that you make use of all those screens!

in this months Stocks and Commodities Magazine that talked all about managing Iron condors.. Talking about Rolling the trade.. Ideas related to how much gamma exposure is the sign to roll out the strikes.. i've thought about trying it myself.. the example is with the RUT i haven't got alot of...

Now I'm curious do you manage these trades. What I mean by that is that you gain exposure to gamma do you roll down or up and strikes.. Or do you have like a break off points where you close down position or have you even thought about it

So what's bad about 30 day vol to you... and what do you tweak to get a better reading

omg the desktop options stratigy calculator is so freaking annoying! i can't get it to work right for me.. trying website

wow i need to study up.. i haven't used the "what if" thing in IB at all!

wow.. optionsoracle is free and its pretty bad ass.. i'm looking for draw backs as we speak!

I can't wait to mess with it.. does it show you live changes in graphs . What kinds of things to.you use it for . Mainly volatility?

Interesting. I know PHP HTML CSS cold fusion and I took a class in visual basic I am positive being able to program in a lower level language just to even be able to.really dig into the data in different ways has to.help!

Wow.. some good s some good smoothing of reality to completely distorte it.. I was thinking about messing around with excel. I'll have to do some research on how to hook up to ib with it.. its been a while since I've used excel to any degree of complexity..

That's what I was hoping you meant

my little bit of research on on the rollover cost of these short-term futures-based ETF's has been very inconclusive. I start to really dig into the vixy.. I have a client that has sold options on the vixy for a while and seen a consistent return. He claims that the volatility of volatility is...

so are the percentage returns are talking about referring to a cash secured put or are you talking about the percentage you're getting a return on related to the margin you're putting up?

I haven't really familiarize myself with the trading platform very thoroughly. I've seen some videos of trade station and think or swim that show three-dimensional graphs and all kinds of representations of different kinds of risk graphically which I wasn't able to quickly find an interactive...

it's great that you know a lot about what your trading it seems that my thoughts are that having 85% of your account in one stock sounds absolutely crazy. I mean how do you allow yourself to be absolutely wrong sometimes. You know what your risk of ruin is.. I personally don't want to be in...

now it seems to me after reading for a while I'm getting the impression that the best way to manage and neutralize gamma is through ratios back spreads. After reading book or two on options market making t seems that my intuition tells me that the two best strategies because of their risk...

when is it be does it make a difference if it's at does it make a difference if it's at the money or out of the money or is it always different based upon how the options are priced

interesting i didn't know that.. i change alot of my orders... i haven't audited my expenses to that level because my account is small and i don't trade that frequently.. the profit and loss from trades are more relevant to me