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Airspeed; If you don't mind, where is really "rural"?? I'm in western alaska town. pop=450. Best speed on land line is 33.6 and it leaves here on an at&t dish anyway. Pings usually run in the mid 700's but sometimes jump to 1200 on specific hops. You can email your answer if you...

Airspeed: I am considering satellite dish and would be interested to know why you would dump yours if possible.

WOW; This thread makes me consider stocks in funeral homes and mental health clinics. I don't necessarily disagree however. As I said on another post, I think we continue to drift downward for a while longer. As far as AG and the EURO, I believe that AG will not hesitate to cut rates. If...

Just a post script to my earlier posting: Although AG has surely done a better job than I could have, I believe the final 1 point increase in rates last year was a product of AG's ego. It seems to me that he tried for a long time to talk the market down as well as use rate increases. When...

I must agree with you ZBOY; I don't look for an intermeeting rate cut because I don't think AG wants to be seen as responding to the market or in a state of panic. I do believe that a rate cut is already priced into the market and whether we get an actual early cut or not the market will...

I got one also. Looks like its time for some predator control work again.

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You can find a table of historical volatility for each month and each stock on the CBOE site. From that you can calculate the standard deviation and therefore the statistical range for that period. It may not be "average" but it will give a starting place.

OPTIONS; Understanding and Trading Listed Stock Options--Luft Leaps; What they Are and How To Trade Them--Roth Options; Essential Concepts and Trading Strategies--CBOE

Be advised; Yesterday I downloaded my trade history from Preferred into an Excel spreadsheet and compared it to another spreadsheet in which I have entered each trade as I received the confirmation. There was a difference of several thousand dollars. After much tedious searching, I found...

P2; I can't address the S-corp issue but I elected MTM three years ago and am very glad I did.

Def; where can one find info on who is the PMM for a given class on a given exchange? Thanks

ZBOY; I understand where you're coming from now. I recall last year trading Qualcom ( I think) calls. I did execute a couple trades on phlx but usually ran into "fast market conditions" so everything was manual and slow anyway. Good luck

ZBOY; I was really surprised to read your comments about the PHLX. I try to avoid it like the plague. In my experience they are usually so far from the market that its a waste of time even considering an execution there....I admit it sometimes works to catch them behind the curve and...

I DAYTRADE ONLY OPTIONS; MY SUGGESTION THOUGH IS TO LOOK AT MORE COMPLEX POSITIONS IN A LONGER TIME FRAME. THE COMMISIONS ARE A TERRIBLE DRAG ON MULTI-LEGGED POSITIONS TO SAY NOTHING OF THE TIME VALUE RUNNING AGAINST YOU ON EACH LEG. SPREADS ARE NOT SO BAD BUT BEWARE THE MORE ESOTERICS...

AA; I figured that was probably the case but also knew I could see the "best" B/A on Preferred. I've used PCQUOTE for data feed for a couple years but have never been impressed with their support. Are you still using QFEED? Thanks much,

HTRADER; THANKS FOR YOUR RESPONSE. I HAVE ALSO USED CME FOR EMINI BUT WAS WONDERING ABOUT CBOE FOR STREAMING OPTION QUOTES. THANKS

HAS ANYONE USED OR SEEN STREAMING REAL TIME QUOTES FROM CBOE ? ANY COMMENTS? THANKS

ASHTRAY; ???? Thats what I was looking for ! I don't use L2 so not a problem. Those costs are acceptable considering my location and available alternatives. Thanks all respondents very much.

Big Ed: Thanks for the input. I only trade options and a couple years ago our town had a connection that ran at 1200 baud. I managed ok with that but of course we get more and more spoiled with every increase in speed. All that to say I could function ok with a couple seconds delay as...