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Since Howard said he was looking for it I assume he won’t mind me showing what I got: “Here is the offer I made to atticus to prove his accusations, get me to pay for the cost of the proof if he is right and get a donation to his favorite charity in his name. Select a third party auditor...

Nice one; sardonic wit is underrated. :) Here is a question for you, Howard, or anyone else selling OTM verticals: what are you doing with the rest of your funds? The logical thing would be to keep the other 2/3 of your money (or 80% in Howard’s case) in cash equivalents since you have...

Um, let’s see, you think Howard is egotistical and everyone has told him that he is barking up the wrong tree, but then you do basically the same trades as him and are so egotistical that you think anyone who bothers to spend many years learning the intricacies of options are stupid because it...

Because your trades seem to be random gambling, then if you happen to get lucky you go crazy and post how great the % return is and get bitter and angry when people don’t pat you on the back. You answer questions in the options forum but you don’t have enough knowledge and experience to do...

MTE, he is taking a portfolio margin test, I already sent him a PM. You are correct for #2 because the question is worded incorrectly but Penson wants you answer B – I know that doesn’t make sense but I guess that is their definition of “primary”.

If you just use the two digit symbol for a futures contract, /6E, /ES, /CL, etc. the software will automatically change it to the next expiration when it gets close. To avoid that you need to use the four digit symbol, e.g. /6EM1 for the current one, the software switched to showing /6EU1. You...

Four decimal points? Where is the screen shot from your broker showing the time stamp on the fill?

From the privacy policy: “Spark Analytics, LLC” which leads to this: Ziad Masri “Co-founder & President at Opentrader” And a search for him gives: http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A16XZGMZH7PC93 http://www.blogger.com/profile/14121277288740658357 http://www.eminiplayer.com/

It is too bad you were not being sarcastic, then your post would have been quite funny as it does an excellent job of satirizing a neophyte trader. Trading vs. gambling is a mater of semantics since any venture with any level of stochastic outcome can be defined as gambling by someone. Of...

Wait, are you admitting that you calculate your profit percentage on just the capital required to hold the vertical or iron condor, but calculating your loss percentage on some (much larger) total portfolio capital? For example: if you had $100,000 total investment capital in all your trading...

CBOE market data express has the historical options prices, but not for free. It is not that much money if you just need a couple symbols though. I believe SPX Dec 825 Puts closed 52.40 at 54.20 so 53.30 mid.

Just signed up for another 2 years with ESET Nod32 Antivirus, and I had zero problems on two computers for the last two years. It is not free but it is not much to pay for a program that does everything I need it to without getting in the way or taking too many resources. On one of my...

Find a qualified lawyer who says that your investors can’t sue you and win when those investors write their checks directly to you so you can do anything with the money, then pool it together, without you providing any disclosure documents, subscription or operating agreements, then you can...

Epic, You sound rather inexperienced, not that there is anything wrong with that, but you are talking about entering into situations that you seem to significantly underestimate. You are convinced that if you fit into some exemptions by the bare minimum letter of the regulations then you will...

It is not only limited to contributions, so AUM is not relevant, but the person or persons running it don’t count toward the under 15 number and any money they put in does not count. Furthermore many people can be excluded from the 15 count and their contributions do not count toward the...

Put it to a vote. I vote Howard lists all the details of his trades YTD, and post future trades in at least close to real time or stop posting on this site forever. All real traders know that if you are trying to prove something to people or get them to subscribe to your tutelage then you...

Say you can make a rather outsize return every year from selling index options like 40% per year. Let’s also say you are smart and don’t compound the returns for safety, and assume a starting risk capital (and this obviously has to be true risk capital that you can afford to lose) of 100k...

I didn’t read every word of it, but I believe all but a couple were selling strangles or credit spreads.

Someone mentioned ACE, I assume they meant ACE Investment Strategies, LLC. Just one more of the selling options till I die funds. They claim they manage over 100 million, so my question is how in the world do they get that much money with nothing but failure? Look at their disclosure docs...

I was saying it “grows” tax free. As to the other, you are right I was not clear enough because it gets very complicated, e.g. defined benefit plan vs. defined contribution plan. All of that is not only beyond the scope and complexity of this website, it goes beyond most sites because...