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    Best Mac laptop for trading

    Anyone trading with a Mac laptop? Please give me your best advice. Many thanks.
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    Basic Risk Questions Regarding Being Naked

    You can plot gamma and delta on these charts: just check mark on the bottom what you want plotted and uncheck implied vol. for easier reading and so the right y axis gives you values for what you want plotted. http://www.optionistics.com/quotes/option-prices ..."should I be looking at...
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    Basic Risk Questions Regarding Being Naked

    You could use an option chart like this to estimate how the calls would change in price as the underlying changes: http://www.optionistics.com/quotes/option-prices Here's the corresponding stock chart: http://www.optionistics.com/quotes/stock-prices/QQQ
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    Tech Execs selling stock, sell-buy ratio is incredible!!!!

    QCOM; http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/804328.htm MSFT: http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/789019.htm ORCL: http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1341439.htm GOOG: http://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1288776.htm INTC...
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    Which setups are more attractive?

    Any low win rate is psychologically devastating and almost certainly will not be followed through to get the 10% winners. What is the lowest win rate that you would be psychologically willing and able to follow?
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    EXAS April options mis-priced

    Implied vol (red line in chart link below) has really taken off on EXAS: http://www.optionistics.com/quotes/stock-prices/EXAS
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    Option Newbie Question:

    Yes. If CL makes a big move above $97 you may want to sell the call well before expiration so you don't lose the unrealized profit. As you can see from the options chart the options value changes rapidly and profits can evaporate quickly.
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    EXAS April options mis-priced

    http://www.theoptionsguide.com/call-backspread.aspx
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    EXAS April options mis-priced

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    Option Newbie Question:

    Here's a chart of the July CL contract: http://quotes.ino.com/charting/index.html?s=NYMEX_CL.N13.E&v=d3&t=l&a=50&w=1 Here's a chart of the CRUDE OIL Jul 2013 9500 Call: http://quotes.ino.com/chart/index.html?s=NYMEX_LO.N13.9500C&t=l&a=&w=&v=d3 Notice how the 95 call value...
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    EXAS April options mis-priced

    Nice chart of how EXAS iv has ramped up from about 0.6 to near 2.0 since Jan. 2013 http://www.optionistics.com/quotes/stock-prices/EXAS
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    Please, help me find site for related company's

    Type your ticker into google search engine and it will do this. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:CVX
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    Probability of Success in Spreads

    Tom Sosnoff on Tastytrade here talks about Probability of Success in Spreads starting at about 11:00 minutes : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfyRbeYEm2Y&list=PL9B32D5E815ABDE26&index=3 Probability of Success in Spreads= Max Loss/Strike Width Max Loss is defined as: Debit paid or...
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    Need Help with IB taxes on Turbotax

    This may help: Online Generation of 2012 IRS Form 8949 for just $10.00 http://form8949.com/index.html
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    Where's the IB Options Brief?

    It's now back up on IB site: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=daily_analysis&ib_entity=llc
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    Where's the IB Options Brief?

    The IB Options Brief used to have a tab at the top of the ET page. I also can't access it on the IB website. Any info? Thanks
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    Tax prep options

    Here's tax prep to consider: "$ 99.95 covers any single account for a single tax year no matter how many trades" http://www.tradematcher.com/purchase.htm I haven't used this service but eventually I will. Has anyone else tried this service? http://www.tradematcher.com/
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    IB TWS Accumulate/Distribute Algo

    Has anyone here used IB's a/d algo? Please provide feedback on your experiences with it. Have you had any problems with reliability? I have been experimenting with it and it looks quite powerful to me. Many thanks. Here's a link to it...
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    How to define a strong trend ?

    Whatever your chosen time frame, look at a shorter time frame and examine the quality of the trend within that time frame. For example, if you day trade with a 5 minute chart, drill down to a 1 or 3 minute chart and analyze trending price action within that smaller time frame to better...
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    Al Brook's trading course

    Nodoji, did you see this?? "Someone should pay NoDoji to write about Volman and Brooks styles combined, her writing style is top notch." [/B]
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