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stevet Would you tell us what that product is? Thanks

Options:perception and deception out of print 1998-you need to do an interlibrary loan coz it is not available. His newest is called woulda,coulda,shoulda which I think is free if people open an account with his firm. The second book is a good surrogate since most concepts are discussed if...

I met them at the expo. They seem like the real deal. They might be a little expensive than IB but their execution platform is better than IB (I saw their demo version not real time so take that observe with a grain of salt) One of the principals is Charles M. Cottle-author of, in my opinion one...

I too have thought of using married puts for my daytrading. Long stock and long put as long as the IV history of the put is favorable. In fact I favor it over holding conversion to short my stocks on downticks, this way if the stock has a big move up in 3 months, I can then sell the call and...

I am not sure I understand your question but let me try. If you are long stock, long put you are synthetically long call. So in that case, I would just intiate a trade by buying the call at the strike of your long put. This way less execution risk, less commish. When you have the long...

When I was on the floor we could'nt even do them with size because they disappear so quickly. Except for that sugar bull market when we had our pick of doing a,b, or c flies for credit. Man, those were the days. Forget about doing them upstairs. You can, however, sell a straddle over the...

Try ivolatility.com or better yet buy optionvue. Really nice 10 minute delayed data but pretty steep-$1500 to buy and $59 monthly to scan your own query formulas-really neat stuff. Most of the web sites use overprice/underprice logic to recommend a strategy so be careful. Example. Query...

Just in case you are not aware, if you intend to be long the QQQ hedged with covered calls or long puts as "insurance" you could just buy the calls or puts outright and save on the extra leg(s). In addition, to protect yourself from volatility implodes/explodes spread it off into a simple...

Def. I hope you guys succeed. I think you'd be pleasantly suprised how the retail customer would respond and trade options more if fairness is brought to the options markets. You have formidable odds though because of the existing powers that be..

I went to the seminar and as usual ran into the people selling stuff that is of little use to a person who wishes to succeed as a trader. I sat through a couple of emini seminars and was annoyed that they all dealt with every aspect of the chart except where it matters-the right edge! When...

There is one other thing about intraday trading w options. Picture TYCO range of 32 to 24 huge prints go around 24 then stops going down. Maybe take a shot buying 2 calls knopwing that no matter what your lost is maxed and fixed. $200 w/ a chance to quadruple in the day due to vacuum and...

Try ivolatility.com or CBOE.com

Try ivolatility.com. Or quote.com or esignal end of day Good luck

There are a couple of compelling reasons to trade the options vs. the stock itself. If you are a daytrader then the only real reason is leverage specially with the new pattern daytrading rules. However, if you are a swingtrader who needs to hold on to positions greater than a day, options...

Dear Private: I wish you luck in your search for option knowlege. Just remember that my suggestion of opening an account and trading very small, experimenting with various strategies AFTER knowing the best of breed books should not be construed as the cheapest solution. In fact, it might be...

There are other software packages out there priced from $250 to $1500 BUT to my knowlege don't have the scanning feature of Optionvue which to me is important. I am currently under trial with optionvue for 1 month. Read the features very carefully, check out websites that might offer the same...

I agree with Don about the validity of these broker rating posts . I recall specifically this one post which detailed all the bad experiences that he/she experienced with Bright. He/She said that REDI goes down all the time, it is slow,etc. Most of his/her assertions were simply not true...

I finally got hold of the cottle book.90% of it is not appropriate for non floor traders since it deals with synthetics and dissection of positions but the 10% is worth it. I got it through an inter library loan. Went to my NJ library and 2 weeks later they located it in an Orlando lib and got...

Scans such as ... Implied Vol > historical vol by x amount Implied vol of front month greater than back month by x% to buy/sell calendars volume spike in any option that exceed x% of open interest extreme skew wherein iv of call1 > Iv of call 2 by 5% for debit/credit spreads...

Are there any other option scanning software out there other than OptionVue. The only ones I've come across are ivol.com and optionclub.com. Both have pre-set scans which are ok but are not customizable. thanks