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Two strategies to look into for trading options outright; Use the QQQQs and NQ to figure out what the opening bid should be for QQQQ options at 9:30am. Often you will be able to buy at the bid and sell at the ask within the first five minutes or even less time. Do a little TA for ZN and...

In my experience it is easier to pick bottoms in volatility than pick tops. What's more is that the risk reward analisys works out better (at least for a trader of my skill- I can see a post by riskarb making me look a little dumb coming up soon) from the long option side during low volatility...

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A couple of things to look at; Firstly with volatility being very low on ZN (ten year future) you could buy options on ZN in the direction that you think the market is moving. Over at briefing.com they do some good TA that you could use as a guide. The other place you could look is K200...

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The problem with predicting oil prices is the only bad prediction is a reasonable one. Right now bears predict $50 a barrel. Highly unlikely. Either there is a supply disruption and oil goes to $100 dollars or the most likely scenario that LNG infrastructure creates cheap substitutes while oil...

There is a pretty good one over at www.globeinvestor.com. I think the MSN screener is better. Many TSX stocks are cross listed on AMEX so if you use that as a filter on MSN you will be in pretty good shape ,especially if you are Canadian and watch ROBTV a bit you will know most of the names.

If your really good you can trade NQ and ES at swifttrade, but remember there risk parameters are very strict so you might have trouble off the start. (Not that you have to be good to get to trade with swift, you have to be good to make money trading with such a short leash. Let not turn this...

When trading FX you need to always be thinking about what is going on in London at the time. 11am central is 5pm in London so fo a lot of people in London it is time to start power boozing.

Over a trade2win there is a good thread on coffee with lots of charts. The thread title is something like "Coffee, the next big bull market", although it is old enough that there has been bear and then another bull market in the mean time. I can only read it for about five minutes before I...

Why would you trade with fidelity? Volunteering to pay high commissions makes no sense to me. A least give yourself a chance by using a decent broker.

Over at fxstreet.com Nicole Elliot has a TA report out on GBP/CHF. I have found her to be a very good anayst. http://mediaserver.fxstreet.com/Reports/72682d79-8ad7-45fd-853a-b511839ec5d4/4f9efd6f-e582-40f4-a185-b1b95698c720.pdf

Six weeks ago I rode it down from 2.300 to 2.2650 trading off support and resistance levels, although I 'm not sure that I am that good at trading it just that it was easy to trade. If you have lots of cash I will guarantee that it will trade down to 2.300 within six months, however it could...

While I am on this, is there any way that I can get options quotes on corn, beans and wheat? I only really want at the money options in the front months. Could you not call over to timber hill and get them to put something together? I would even give up a little on the spread to get a fill...

I have got some very good fills using interactivebrokers. If you use there platform you can also trade other products (almost all of which are easier to trade I think you will find). Does anybody out there use the Deutsche Bank platform? I would like to know what you think of it. If you...

Is there any way to turn off that super anyoying automatic log-off. Walk away from your computer and next thing you know you have to log in again. If there isn't then there should be.

I was listening to the news on the way home from soccer last night thinking "I bet the market opens higher and then reverses back to end up about even" after I heard about the ceasefire. In my opinion Mideast violence only effects market sediment in the manner of a short term catalyst. Now...

But the thing is that even the low volume in August is way more volume than the busiest months five years ago.

Billy, August is the time to fade equity index moves with long options. Market goes up- you buy a put. I find summertime markets to be easy to trade, the problem is I have to make enough money to get me through September. I agree though it is quite dull, that is why I have been posting so...

I use a very similar strategy BUT I use QQQQ options to limit risk. While it is true QQQQ will almost always retrace itself, there have been a few days this year when my retracement trade went violently against me, leaving me very happy to have limited risk. Further more I don't think I give...