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Sorry :( For me the 1M account was the realistic example :( I understand there are many people out there who are dealing with 10k-50k but (please forgive me) I've never really dealt with an account with that much in it so I don't have much experience there. Also, I wanted to emphasize the...

Anyone know of a tool or website where you can describe the option strategy, and it tells you what the conventional names for that strategy are? I.e., you type in: LONG 100 XYZ WRITE 1 OTM CALL And it responds: Covered Call (But, obviously, for more complex option types than this). Thank you.

The purpose of this post was to illustrate trading on a small amount of margin (relative to account size) rather than maximizing margin availability. Also it was using stocks (specifically avoiding futures) and using Reg T Margin (50% margin rather than 10:1 or 20:1 leverage that some brokers...

Hello, I was digging around here (and the internet) for some good examples on margin calculations. All of the examples I see talk about being fully leveraged on your account (i.e.: have 10k cash, buy 20k securities). I would like to see some examples where you are NOT fully leveraged. So I...

Automated Trading is the usual reason. As well as software that sets off alerts the moment an option crosses a boundary line. Not many people would actually be eye-balling 100 options in real time to execute a trade :)

I recommend you do some paper trading or just running numbers on a piece of paper yourself :) The commissions you are looking at will eat up all your profit, and if you make a mistake it will not be fun. I suggest: 1) Read several web sites that show the different option strategies 2) Use Pen...

How good is the volume? Some of these ETFs have so low volume you would be buying & selling at the MM's very wide spread. Or unable to exit/enter a position for so long that the opportunity passes. Perhaps you were thinking: Option gives Leverage 3x ETF gives Leverage Leverage on a...

Ideal leverage is probably based around Worst Historical Loss (WHL) for the position(s) hold hold. To be pessimistic, presume a 50% instantaneous drop that stays there till close. If that would not cause a margin call, then you are probably ok.

Sure you can make a profit trading..... Question is how much is your principal and how much you want to make. Are you happy with 2%? Throw it all in SPY and go enjoy the rest of life... real easy. Are you playing with 20k and want to somehow make 30k/year to pay for all your expenses... that...

Traders pay lots of money for big workstations and trading platforms in order to do this sort of trading.... chances of you successfully competing (and outbidding them) on a mobile phone is not very high. You may need to focus more with a better toolset if you are into this more active form of...

Trading *IS* easy. Making money through trading *IS* easy. Being disciplined for some is easy and for some is hard --- This is probably one of the key reasons. Understanding how financial markets is easy for some to learn and hard for others to use -- This another key reason. If Jon is well...

That does look pretty!

And that may be part of the problem -- everyone is used to using the same old same old that they stick with what looks like to have been designed when the first version of windows came out. Yes, we have lots of options for purely functional. I'm just wondering if there is something that is...

Both. No reason one should sacrifice one for the other.

When it comes to trading platforms, there's lots of choices out there... but which one looks the slickest, the sexist, the: It's so pretty, intuitive, aesthetically laid out I actually enjoy staring at it all day. And not *JUST* for Day Trading, or Charting... but for everything... I'm working...

*before* you start trading, set up all your rules: What days to trade/not trade (i.e., not on weeks with certain economic events) What time to trade (i.e., first trade one hour after market opens and last trade one hour before market closes) What positions to trade When to enter a trade When to...

I tried Money.net, and found it slow and quite lacking in content. It seemed everything money.net offered IB had (plus more) with regards to fundamental analysis. And money.net was seriously lacking when compared to Eikon, and not even in the same league as a Bloomberg. I have used Eikon...

I'm looking for two types of front ends (or one that does it all) for IB: News Reader I'm subscribed to a lot of news in IB, but the way it spews out in TWS is pretty weak I would not mind a much better and more graceful way to look at the news Something formatted like an Eikon would be great...

I used the MetaStock version of Eikon. For the most part it was pretty good. Good: Slick, modern interface Well customizable Great news feeds -- comprehensive and fast on announcements Lots of fundamental information available Bad: Can be slow switching between windows, and can crash A lot...

Thank you both for the interesting replies. But as far as I can tell, none of them offer anything like 'Bloomberg briefs'. Bloomberg Briefs is a regular publication (daily/weekly) on a specific topic/region/investment-type (one each), that contains consolidated news for the previous period on...