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    butterfly

    try selling an iron butterfly spread
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    Best way to trade a short iron butterfly

    Trying to work out the best time to sell an iron butterfly on a low volatile stock. How far out, when to close. any body have any experience with them
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    Day trader looking for others

    i have a discord account ptrdr
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    What works for you?

    Currently Strangles on earnings but cheap 2 days ahead or more. Run TOS scan any large volume calls 30 to 45 days out cheap. Fridays on weeklies just itm calls with good upside. Looking at doing short iron butterflies atm
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    Day trader looking for others

    Have you tried http://www.thelion.com?
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    Can you keep sanity day trading?

    He is definitely nuts. You only need to trade 4 or 5 trades from 10.30 to 12. Min 1000 shares and make 30 cents for $300 , do that 3 times make sometimes more and sometimes less, for $1000 a day and you are home free.
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    Setting "Proper" stops in trend strategy?

    Never set stops. Mm's bounce stock prices to flush out stops
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    For successful intraday traders / strategies

    1 bounce off pivot 2 reverse off pivot 3 long trend after 10.30 bounce
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    What generates your trading signals?

    Pivots
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    Data feed for intraday market scanner every 60 seconds

    I use stockwatch or iqfeed with a scanner i wrote in Python. Scans 300 stocks in 6 portfolios in medved trader. Could do 600 stocks but select top 300 from nasdaq nyse daily download. Updates a portfolio every minute and an page at www.Proptrader.Com. Works well , gives me up to 10 top stocks...
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    How long it took until you find the right trading software?

    Started with Sterling great function key setups, Completely switched from trading stocks to trading options Now on TOS THINKORSWIM best piece of software out there For day trading options
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    How can I get live real time data without paying extra fees?

    Td Ameritrade account and TOS gives you real time data great for options trading DOM
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    Exporting option chain data to Excel

    If you want complete eod option data stockwatch has the option to download all daily option data you can then segment it and load it into a spreadsheet. I run it through a python program and analyse the data.
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    Can you give me a list of top 10-20 stocks that are usually volatile

    It all depends on how many $ you are trading with $1000,$10,000 or$50,000 or more. NFLX 100 shares will cost you $34,000 so not w good idea if you are starting out. To make money you need to be buying 500 to a 1000 shares. That may bring you down to $2 to $10 stocks. Even volatile $1 stocks...
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    How much did you lose on the journey to becoming profitable?

    $2k trying all the option techniques, spreads, condors, iron condors, butterflies etc etc until you find your Bruceg
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    Basic Options Question

    Much safer to buy a put spread
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    Being both long and short at same time

    For earnings we always do a strangle 1 call 1 put 1% away from current price. Depending on the cost though. For those stocks that are impacted most by good or bad earnings
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    Options: Training / Courses / Reading List

    Go to optionalpha and go through all of kirks free videos and get s good idea of all the types of spreads. The best options trading software is thinkorswim from td Ameritrade all the options traders on CNBC use it.. not sure if you can open up an account from the UK though. Call and put spreads...
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    How legit is options selling?

    Not sure what you are talking about. Selling naked calls, puts or selling spreads or any other technique. Go to optionalpha they cover all of those
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    Need a new desktop setup

    Use three Dell refurbished currently online at $370 each, 8gb ram ok 16gb better, win 10. Five monitors ,2 on one pc runs medved trader charts with .30 charts and portfolios with 300 stocks. 2nd pc 2 monitors runs thinkorswim trading , could do with more desktop size will probably upgrade to 27...
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