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You should probably start learing those just about now. It ain't goin' down much further. I haven't made a single call on this board yet, although I was tempted many times (besides, I don't want the smart people on this board to figure out what my strategy is from such calls), but from all I...

We have a saying in Russian that goes smth like "a bad dancer blames his balls for getting in the way of his dancing."

Thanks for all your feedback guys. I didn't mean to trigger a TS vs TWS combat though :D. I was/am just looking for a platform that's best suited for options and equities at the same time. I like TS (especially their order entry setup) but I never need to use any of it's hyped cool features...

Thanks for the replies guys. What sucks though it that I'll have to pay professional fees b/c the account is an LLC one. TS folks treated me as non-professional. I looked at the java demo and the interface is kind of messy compared to TS (especially for order entry). The execution may be...

Hi guys, I'm about to make this switch b/c I need to be able to trade options and TS doesn't offer that capability in the current version. How fast will the adjustment be in your experience? Any "been there done that, be careful with this and that" advice will be appreciated. I might end up...

I just realized that I accidentally started this thread in the futures section. sorry guys, I meant to do it in options :)

Thanks. But if I understand you correctly, you are speaking of the fee, I was more after the spread I'd lose on the round trip. Any idea? Thanks again.

I see your logic :) In Russian it would also have been IS. But the way I was taught (the proper British version :), not the American variant) is that regardless of whether it still is, will be etc, once you started out the sentence in the past tense, you gotta keep going in the past (or past...

What kind of transactions costs are there in the options mkts? How much would a straddle position cost (round trip, say 10 contracts each leg (1000 shares?)) for options on a large cap stock (say IBM or BBY). Just a ball park figure. How's the liquidity there? Can I expect to be able to...

Hey guys, I gotta admit I was quite impressed today with how populer ET is (my fingers almost typed "was" which would have been what my English teacher would have wanted here according to "sequence of tenses", but those rules don't quite work that way here in the US, as I have since repeatedly...

... or we could have a feature where instead of "ignoring" someone, you could select the people who posts you do wanna see :)

Thanks!

How do you guys trade those? Are there ADR ETFs?

Who said they'd rather not hold ovenights? :D Happy trading to all. I'm done for today.

A case of reverse causality? :D Maybe if we did pay that fee, only the ones who could potentially make a dent in the mkt would remain :) The quality of discussion and the level of maturity would go up immensely as well....

The whole mkt, I doubt. But we could easily move a small to medium cap stock :D Sometimes I get the feeling I can do that myself... Send a sequence of buys and the specialists moves away for a minute or two... :(

26, finance PhD.

I don't know, man. I see the benefits of not being exposed overnight. But if you are correct often enough, the moves there are REALLY nice. Besides, I only have to step in towards the end of the day and close out in the morning - that leaves me the whole day to do whatever else I have in...

Yes, I think your interpretation is right (although I wouldn't go as far as to say that trading is always simple, some arb models employed by large players are VERY complex). Other than that, I do agree with you, it's complicated to formulate a trading rule that works. Once you do...

Come on man, no need to make fun of GG. "Not everyone can do this?" Get real. Only VERY FEW can. During the raging bull market when GG started and a bunch of others did too, everyone seemed to know it all. Now the reality kicks in. And the reality is, unless you have an...