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Thanks for the link, Jester!

It sounds like you are pretty active in the SPX options and want fills sooner rather than later, Ktm. How do you execute your orders? At the market? Work a limit order? If limit, what price do you use for your limit? Thanks. I'm short a single June 875 put from a couple weeks ago...

Is that the SPX June 1010 call, symbol SPQFB, that closed at 5.10? If so, so far so good!

The reason most options expire worthless is because most option positions opened are out of the money -- not because buying options is an inherently bad decision.

Of course they have different payoff curves and a positive vs. negative theta, but if you are looking for an edge... With the VIX so low, now might be a good time to buy the puts.

I'm pretty sure that equities have outperformed bonds over the long term. You might want to check this. Also, keep in mind correlations. Even if a bunch of different asset classes all return about the same amount, you'll want to invest in several of them to minimize your portfolio...

Don't forget utility... If it is worth 20 or 30k per year to you to have the trader life versus the employee life, then you are coming out nicely ahead.

Once Trout closed his fund he no longer had any need to do interviews. And in fact, he probably preferred privacy to getting skewered by the press (as most rich people are.) I don't think Trout reported to any of the hedge fund databases for a decade or more. Which brings up the issue of...

While roulette and trading are indeed games of chance, the difference between you, Swoop, and the Mirage Casino is statistics. One of you makes money; the other thinks it's all a game of chance.

Without statistics how do you know the difference between a good(bad) trading strategy and a lucky(unlucky) streak? Vikana is right on. If you can't do a two-tailed z-test (or don't know what one is!) you should hire professional money management help -- that is, stick to mutual funds, hedge...

What part of "(return - risk free rate) / downside standard deviation" is giving you difficulty?

That's why you've got two monitors... One for posting bids and the other for hitting them! :D

What business are you running, chessman?

Drawdown is a strong function of time. Traders with longer histories are going to have larger drawdowns. Just like you are more likely to get tails 5 times in a row by flipping a coin 100 times versus 10 times. A less-time-related measure of risk or downside is the standard deviation (or...

If you want cheap, use Interactive Brokers' API. If you want easy and user friendly, use Tradestation Securities.

Ah, thanks, Alberto. How far back can you go with the data? Could you check, for example, the e-minis?

The vast majority of market participants are long, so they made money today. Probably most traders also have a net long position if they include retirement plans and non-trading investments. So, yes, a lot of wealth was created today.

If she's got free cash, tell her to pay down her credit card debt. If she's paying, say, 15% interest on the credit cards, then by paying down that debt she would be saving herself from having to pay interest on the debt -- in effect, getting a guaranteed 15% return on her money. That's a heck...

Great. Thanks. I'll check out MB Trading.

I don't see anything about historical intraday data on futuresource.com. Could you give me the link if it's on the website? How much intraday data do you have on, for example, the e-mini's and with what granularity?