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She's a freakin nut. I'm more scared about the fact that her and Bernie sanders even have supporters!

I'll come trade for you. Can't guarantee any profits though lol.

I am trying to use it for ES but I can never get it to work right. Glad to hear it's useful when it does. Maybe I will call TD and get this fixed.

You can always buy a put/ debit spread, or increase your chances of success by selling a call spread. That will give you plenty of leverage on top of defining your risk. Stocks like Netflix are volatile, and can literally explode on good news. If you get caught on the wrong side of a gap up you...

Good luck.. Just make sure you use a protective stop! Trust me on that one. It's important to get out even if in the long run you are correct the market can always stay irrational longer than you, or anyone, can stay solvent.

LEAPS are also usually pretty illiquid. Not sure which underlying you're using, there are some mega-caps in that price range, but typically that's the case. That also contributes to the wide spread.

Thanks for the insight on using volatility, I will look into that. Yes I agree 512 is a funny number. I was just using it for a quick trial, but it's actually one of the default tick chart settings on Thinkorswim. I'm not sure about the reasoning behind it myself. Anyway, since posting this I...

I'm not sure if you can because even though the tick chart represents a certain number of trades it doesn't share the volume traded at that price. BTW I'm on thinkorswim, every platform is probably a little different.

check out opening a margin account and selling credit spreads.. you only need to maintain a $2000 account balance with TD.

I just started trading forex, but i have been trading other vehicles for a while now. I was curious if any of you guys use tick charts over time charts, and if so how many ticks you usually use. I am using 512 at the moment but i seem to betting a few more false signals than when trading...