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I recently attended an all-day (8 hr) course on option trading. Cost - free to the brokerage firm's clients. It was an intermediate level course. In particular they got into the greeks and made them much more understandable to me than they were when I read about them three years ago. Trades...

Was the 40% off just on the LCDs or any Dell product? I can't tell from the original post.

Ameritrade has been growing via the acquisition path for a number of years. Maybe they want to increase their margins and can do without the very low margined business, thus their decision to close FreeTrade. You call Steve23 a liar because you could not negotiate. Is that really logical? He...

Mine came with a regular VGA connector cable, a DVI connector cable, a USB connector (for USB ports built-in), and an AC power cord.

John: I don't want to see you attacked by some benighted klutz for disseminating erroneous information. Therefore, in a continuation of my effort to help maintain the standards being set by this thread I thought I'd let you know that the earliest reference to be found (using the abysmal ET...

I think spamming, in a non-culinary sense, refers to mass emailing. This thread is certainly not that. The system article does appear on a commercial site. That site does refer to a UK-based trader forum. Are you saying that "sidinuk" had an ulterior motive in originating this thread?

No, No, NO! You are making the calls before the fact. To be a guru you make the call after the fact but make it appear to have been before the fact. I'll admit some exceedingly devious gurus do make the call before the fact, but they also make the opposite call within a week or two and...

Nice simple example and easy to follow. It would be nice if slippage and commissions were included in the results tables. They are mentioned in article itself and are covered in the Conclusions table. However, they are omitted in the quarterly total tables which follow.

The short answer is no. He is the type of guy that does not like to get involved in stuff like that. You seem determined to stick with WizeTrade right now. I'm sure they will be more than happy to take your $3K 6 months or a year from now. Strongly recommended you look into technical...

I have not purchased the package. However, I have a friend who did. He is a very good options trader (swing trading). He is extremely analytical and does lots of Excel analysis before he adopts a new idea. He likes to trade and is generally looking for stocks to do option trades on. He...

Mr. Merchant (I'm from the old school and will not call you by your first name without your permission): As bright as you seem to be, I think you fail to understand what is really happening here at ET. You, besides contributing crystal clear charts and pithy comments (the information value...

I noticed in today's Wall St. Journal that Ameritrade has create a new division - Ameritrade IZone. Margin accounts only. Means no IRA's etc. No phone to customer support. Must have two years internet brokerage experience. Equities $5 per trade, no size limit, market or limit orders...

Something very suspicious going on here. I've just looked at the TMTTTADWSOIH. That chart, with very minor variations, appears to be a graphical representation of a technique I've used over the years, generally successfully, to make a series of new personal highs. I've never publicly shown...

Is as serious as Hup and Candle. Can delete if you wish. Just could not resist. I like the thread (and various needles to go with thread).

I'm not a chart reader but I know the rather rare big dipper pattern when I see it, though there are those that might call it a little dipper. Thou art no ghou rhou. Stop trying to convert those candy bar addicts into tripe addicts.

I understand that Ameritrade has two customer levels - Regular and Apex. If there are differences in the features available to each could you be sure to note them.

Don't the big guys use "Least Cost Protocol"? This generally ensures using the shortest route as it minimizes resource requirements.

I'm not a software systems guy but 10ms seems awfully long. 10ms is 10 milliseconds (.001 seconds). Today's PCs are clocked in the gigahertz range so the cycle time would be the reciprocal of a gigahertz or 1/1,000,000,000 or .000000001 seconds. Perhaps the rate Damir is referring to is 10...

You have three types of delay involved: a)propagation delay - the speed of electrons \photons moving over cable or fiber b)inherent router delay - the time each router takes to route(address to the next router) the packets you are sending c)traffic loading delay - additional variable...

Your local area network (LAN) is not your problem, the wide area network (WAN) is. The controlling/predominant factor is the Internet latency. The 180 millisecond time is probably a roundtrip (from your computer to your broker's server and back to your computer). That indicates about a 90...