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You don't think the chances of the price of an option doubling is high

What is the safest way to add income to your commodity account with options? Would you say it's through spreads. I looking to add a small amount of income each month through options while trading futures. I have a good amount of experience trading futures...but practically none with...

What do you mean a 4 or 5 times multipler ...you mean exit when the option price goes up 4x. It seems like the odds of most options doubling is relatively high

What spreads do you recommend?

I'm not planning on holding on to the options if the trade goes against me. I' m planning on exiting the trade when the price of the option doubles

Just the ES....any other markets to write options on. Thanks for the advice!

I'm going to be selling naked options in commodity markets. I'm going to be doing this just to add small amounts of income to my account. If the price of the option doubles I will exit. I was wondering what you guys thought were the best markets to write naked options in commodities.

Now that was funny!!

Go to this site and click on historical charts http://www.commoditiesview.com

Then what do trading firms look for...I thought the CFA was equivalent to a masters from an ivy league school.

I was wondering what you guys thought about the C.F.A I'm currently studying for it and was wondering if it would open doors for me to a trading position. I have three years of previous finance experience. Thanks,

Isn't the exam weighted like the series 7? I know with the 7 was all options and bonds questions...is the CFA the same? How hard is the program I heard isn't really tough. How much harder is it than the 7? Thanks for responding back

I'm just starting to study the C.F.A. and was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on how to study for it. I know when I studied for the series 7 I read the book but mainly did practice questions. Should I do this for the C.F.A. as well. What were the important topics to study...

I always heard it was the equivalent of an ivy league mba. When I worked as a broker at Morgan Stanley they would tell me to get the CFA and not worry about an MBA. They said only get an MBA from top 15 business schools in the country....if you can't get in get the CFA

Do you think the C.F.A. is equivalent to an Ivy league MBA. I just started studying for the C.F.A it doesn't seem that hard yet. I'm sure it gets a lot tougher. Let me know what you guys think...how good is it to have

I have a friend that owns his own broker-dealer. He worked for bear sterns for 15 years and then started his own broker dealer. He manages something like a billion under management. How much do you think this guy is worth? How much do is cost to start a broker dealer?

I'm not a broker/dealer

I was wondering what you guys thought about etfs for trading commodities instead of buying/selling futures contracts.

Are you kidding me...that's funny. The account will be around 3 million. That will generate 30k a year in revenue. I think it's usually 10-30% of the first year revenue for a referral. Anywhere from 3k-9k. I was wondering what the industry standard was

Now for the scary part. Greenspan lowered the federal discount rate to 1%. That's basically what created the housing bubble. It in turn will create inflation...what we have right now is inflation. Oil is at $73, gold $650, silver $13. The Fed is going to have to keep raising rates...