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Hi Jgills. It's been awhile, I hope all is well. Are you still trading vix futures (post margin hike)?

One can make money buying or selling credit/debit spreads, as well as any other option position. But if you have a decent directional edge, why not just trade the underlying, or sell puts in a stock you want to own? If you convince yourself that it's a vol/skew trade, then shouldn't the...

Does anyone here own, or follow, Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR)? I would be interested in any opinions. Thanks (full disclosure: I am long NKTR shares)

TOS does have thinkback and the onDemand feature problem with thinkback is that you have to step through the dates manually, and you will only see closing prices typically people buy historical options data, and then have some sort of program/engine to run through the data, but this is...

vega wounds, gamma kills

Cover and take the loss. You were wrong, get out and trade another day. You will always be adjusting at edge-loss. Why add risk. And don't try to revenge-trade when it bounces back.

Ok thanks. Yeah, I could copy/paste then run my numbers. I just like to have things automated (although it will probably save me 5 secs). Any sheets are appreciated.

Please send me the list of stocks whose IV will pop significantly at the open tomorrow (ideally a few minutes prior to the previous day's close). Much obliged.

I have two FirePro 2460 cards (able to run up to 8 monitors). I currently run six 24" 1920x1200 screens, using mini display port connections. Works just fine, and was the most cost effective (I don't do any gaming). NVS cards are also good.

This is probably a fairly simple question; I have very little experience with the IB API. Within their sample ActiveX Excel sheet there is the ability to download account and portfolio data from TWS. My question is; How can I separate this page and incorporate it into a new Excel workbook...

You guys do realize that the number of monitors you use is directly correlated to your P/L...actually exponentially so.

Bro, if you're not getting your signals from the Dow you are behind the eight ball. I mean Merck and du Pont are the barometer for the whole economy.

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Sinclair and Hull are always good (so is Baird), the rest is pretty much garbage. But like you said, the text is geared toward MMing. As a single trader you won't trade the style that the book focuses on. But, you will benefit from understanding the structure of options and the pricing...

Yeah, it was like they just stumbled upon the concept of VaR. I'm sure most bb i-banks have never heard of this enigma.

You would be better off hedging the flies with stock, so you can keep your greek profile in tact, or, better yet, don't hedge at all. If you are concentrated in long flies in single stocks (short v/g), go to index to neutralize. Your book will somewhat replicate pseudo short-dispersion...

Right. No position, spread, risk-exposure is a strategy. Well, except rolling IC's in the RUT month after month...free monies!!

So does that make long gamma a good play?

Google: "Volatility"

I would not advise buying/selling vol because it's in it's n-th percentile. However, money in options is made by betting that market prices/vols are incorrect. The trick is to find the little inefficiencies that exist out there. Everyone is aware of the level of IV/HV, you need to find reason...