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Rally you edit your posts too quick LOL. I went to quote the 10 lot portion and when I did it changed. But anyways do you put the total amount of lots on at first or is this the max goal for the position. forgive me if I seem to be over analyzing the trade but it is important to me to understand...

Heather, coach, rally, cache, I have only been trading spreads now for about 9 months. My question is when you open a position like this how do you decide how many to do? For example Heather would 20 be the maximum you want for this trade or is it a certain percentage of your account at risk? I...

All it takes is a couple of beers. :p

Unless one happens to be fortunate and live in an area where property taxes are capped. I paid my house off in 2001. Looked into building a new house in 2003 and then learned alot about the "Save our Homes" ammendment passed years ago in my county. If I sold my house to myself today my taxes...

Couldn't have said it better. Now try telling someone who is sold on selling covered calls that all he has to do is just sell the naked puts instead. :eek: T

Since this thread's topic was buying straddles or strangles on earnings plays I figured I would post this here. I put this trade on for AMZN earnings... BTO 10 jun 37.50 calls 1.15 debit 1165.00 STO 5 may 35.00 calls 1.90 credit 935.00 BTO 10 jun 32.50 puts .90 debit 915.00 STO 5 may...

Just got my TOS account opened up today. Also have an OX account which will now be used as backup as a just in case TOS goes down and I need an emergency hedge or something. T.

My first calendar was with TIVO which was horizontal. I closed out for a small loss. Which do any of you find more successful with, diagonal or horizontal. It seems to me calendars are similar to covered calls but with less $ at risk. Am I wrong about this? T

I also have bought gold from http://www.goldsilverbullion.com/default.htm#WCMpricing but like tulving they have minimums to purchase to get free shipping and most people don't want to buy that much at once. But if you want to buy at least 1k ounces of silver tulving many times has the best...

Here is another site packed full of info on this country and it's debt . http://mwhodges.home.att.net/ . I left my job back in 2001 to cash in my stock and paid off our house and all debts we had. Granted we don't live in a huge mansion and drive new cars or motorhomes etc. but we have...

I've bought a lot of silver at www.bulliondirect.com and never had a problem. Check out their nucleo exchange and many times you will be able to get a better price than kitco or alot of the other metals firms on the net. T

Closed out TIVO calendar spreads for 220 dollar loss. No big deal could've been worse. T

Would like some opinions on this please. I entered the following calendar spreads this week. Lately I have been doing vertical credit spreads but couldn't resist the volitility difference in the apr TIVO calls and the aug. BTO 20 aug TIVO 7.50 calls @ 1.80 STO 20 apr TIVO 7.50 calls @ 1.15...

I too am opening a TOS account. I used to use MyTrack but comm etc. were too much. I used them for years and they cleared through Penson without ever a problem. hope this helps. T

With commodities you can EASILY lose more money than you have in your account. Say you have a position and a couple of days it makes limit moves in the opposite direction. You can't get out. All you can do is set there and cry. T

I used to use mytrack. I think their software for trading was top notch as the quotes etc. never got behind. But you had to pay for it. I quit trading for a while and went to delayed quotes. Then they started charging 5 bucks a month for that if you didn't trade. commisions were also too high...

As far as your PAAS purchase, how do you feel about silver bullion itself. I have about 2700 ozs I have been purchasing over the last three years and needless to say I am happy with what it has done so far. Do you, would you own metal outright? T

Keep posting your picks. This journal and SPX credit spread trader I look forward to reading every day as I am getting back into trading a little at a time. Reading these two journals is really a good education. Thanks for taking time to i appreciate it. T