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What about Interactive Brokers? I trade ES/EW vertical spreads with them and works pretty good. Regards.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Hi all, I'm thinking about trading CBOE Binary Options but Interactive Brokers don't offers this product. Do you know where can I trade this options? Thanks in advance.

Nell, pay attention to BeatingtheSP500 because this is the bottom line here. Trade with an edge, manage your risk and be consistent to achieve the positive expectation of your trading.

About options strategies with high probability ratio: A lot of floor traders, especially the younger ones, love to write naked options. "The fools," they say, speaking of the options buyer, “they just keep giving me their money, and I keep selling 'em options that end up expiring...

Maybe the question here is not the lesser probability of losses but the big size of this loses overcoming your previous success. Learn to manage your risk position. I agree with you, an edge is an exploitable statistical advantage, but when you understand OTM IC like an edge you're saying...

Hi Nell, this was a hard week in the markets. A lot of traders losing money, me too, but this is why God created risk management. We're yet playing the game. Only one question, my friend, which is your edge? I said that because selling far OTM IC is not an edge. Think about it and good...

What about thinkorswim web site?

Paper trading? :eek: Then your risk here is win this paper trade and thinking in easy money from the markets.

Hi Jahajee, which is the size of your account and the margin requirement for this position? Have you planned what to do if the markets drops again? Good luck.

Think about it like a vega-scalping strategy. Remember that skew only affect your position if your put/call volatility spread changes. It really happens but is less important that volatility evolution. You bet. Regards

My point is that this works, and works pretty good. If market droops your positive vega-gamma will obtein money for you. If market rise your vega become negative, IV droops and you win too. Your risk here is the volatility evolution when market goes back, you have not close your position...

Really I agree with you and I would not manage my money like this but, what about Max Ansbacher? He sell ES naked puts and his performance shows that it works pretty good. Regards

Sure, paper trading will help you, but you need some theoretic basis for trading options. The price of the underlying contract and the direction in which you expect the market to move, the amount of time remiaining to expiration, the volatility concept... you will be faced with several...

As a rule, you shouldn't use market orders in your options trading. Maybe you can do it with SPY or QQQQ options but I don't recommend it. I'm trading ES/EW and DAX options, both are pretty good markets for options trading. Even so, maket orders don't works for these. On the other hand, if...

Don't worry about where are you living? :eek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_C%C3%A1lida What about your spanish speaking and what about of the murcians english kowledge? Is this a problem for you or you don't worry about this? :D Regards from Barcelona.

You said that is no dfference in the way you manage $5,000 or $500,000 because you have an a very small account. Sure. There is a great difference making free throws in a training session or do it in the last minute when your are playing the NBA Finals. Just like that the most important...

Thank you Dhpar. That's good advice. I guess there aren't shortcuts here. I'll increase my position size progressively, step by step :) , in order to win for myself the right to manage the whole of this money. Regards.

Yes, this is bottom line here: accepting losing money and don't feel this loses like absolute amounts but like relative trips. It sounds easy, but I'm not sure about how losing $10,000 in two weeks can affect my trading skills. What must I do? Really we all know it: I must plan my trades...

:D I show you my performance for last weeks. This score correspond to my IB account with an initial size of $25,000. 07/03/2008 14/03/2008 $262,06 21/03/2008 $155,86 28/03/2008 $229,68 04/04/2008 ($440,69) 11/04/2008 $1.095,40 18/04/2008 ($728,49) 25/04/2008 $128,88...