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Will fluctuate, with decreasing volatility.

Do not listen to the responses from IB (I read at least one of them in this thread). Timber Hill (a market maker) is part of IB. And they ride on the back of their customers (if it suits them of course). I have three OPTION brokerages accounts. Sometimes I notice the following: I place orders...

In addition to the excellent previous suggestion. Consider buying a straddle and selling a strangle (immediate next strikes) noth next month if current expiration is soon. Assumptions: volality will collapse and stock moves. If you are right on both (particularly the second) you should make...

I am searching for Prop Trading Places for Options. I trade online. I do not need any education from them. The aim are places with low margin requirements. Low per-contract commissions. Also I am more interested in having access to lines of credit where I pay them per use rather than sharing...

Here is my little contribution: 1. All commonly used technical indicators are equivalent to each other. 2. I trade risk free (not the usual way,but my way). 3. I take risk only for pleasure/fun. Here is one way I do it. I look at the price action of today, from which I derive exact...

Last post: Think twice about what you wrote. Today is the tomorrow of yesterday. Coming in today, one should expect the high to be broken and it did first! Now the low was expected not to be broken (this does not mean impossible) to break, if the trend was to continue). Since it was broken...

Math in MacMillan? Are you kidding me. I love math. A math book is a book in which there are only theorems and lemmas, and I love theorems and lemmas. I wish he wrote it that way. He writes ideas in words (not math), and what he says contains no insight, just description of tools. Dry, more...

I think that there are some problems in these trades. In summary they are: 1. The initial trade is a spec. It went against him. He converted it to a diagonal (which is more of an income time of trade). So there is a mixing of type of trades, which may indicate that our colleague is not...

Good one! The math behind it gives tools that show you the trend is not your friend any more before you find out that it is not your friend using naked-eye facts. In other words, you will be able to stop trusting before paying for the trust.

Here are some points that seem not to have been covered (at least explicitly): 1. One does not pyramid to make more (less) or lose less (more) but rather to make a compromise between the two extremes, which is in essence to produce a smoother equity curve. Pyramiding has the great impact...

If your method is rooted in using indicators/technical stuff without having some special insight, the problem I think is not in acting on them, but in not systematically acting on them. Humans typically cannot do this. It might be better to use a robot. If you decide to do it yourself, I...

If the low of today is broken, there is a mathematical result that shows that if things continue as in the past, the low of next day is easier to break and the high of current day is harder to break next day. You can make money knowing this. More money if you know why it is the case (but you...

If the low of today is broken, there is a mathematical result that shows that if things continue as in the past, the low of next day is easier to break and the high of current day is harder to break next day. You can make money knowing this. More money if you know why it is the case (but you...

Cody, what is the link to his webinar? What did he speak about? Who is that guy? I think I may have heard him speaking on IB webinar series. I like to watch people speak. Sometimes it says something different compared to books. And sometimes,it gets me to discover something new just...

Scoobie: Here are some points that I tell people who learn from me: 1. I divide a portfolio into 2 parts: income part and specs part. For each there are strategies. 2. You seem to be doing things somewhat backward if I can say that. It is ok when you start to play with a strategy...

What if the stock goes down? The short call will not hedge enough. If I were you I would use options from same month if I use an ATM vertical (this way all what is left is intrinstic value of lower call. I would better go for OTM bull put spread. Probability of success is higher and bid/ask...

What's wrong with you. It is a good thing for a borrower not to be checked. So said that you should have a credit record in the first place. The only people who like it are the lenders. It is good for the borrowers not to be checked. Does you family check your credit when you borrow from them...

Doli: pls spill it or PM me. The other colleagues: I never traded odd lots. I do not hide. As for the folk with the spreads idea, don't you lose if the stock does not meet the spread expectations?

I have a method to trade stocks/efts in which I am guaranteed to always to never do worst than my cost basis (not including commissions and bid-ask spreads). I cannot tell what it is as it may have monetary value beyond what can be shared in a forum. Does others have similar secrets? What do...

scoobie, What you propose is a double calendar. I understand that you think the underlying will stay where it is now or in the neighberhood of it. So you place a calendar above and a calendar below current stock price. You are neutral in direction if strikes are equidistant from stock. And...