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He means for charting. You can still use QT for charting and IB for trading. Is what I do. QT is much better than IB for charting, visually and technically. Ursa..

Thanks 4 your support. And I mean IP ban, so no one in his network address (range) is able to post here anymore. To get rid of the aliases, you know. Ursa..

I'm really wondering why we have to have a psycho like him here freely running circles on the board while some very decent and knowledgable people have been (IP) banned from ET, we all know who I mean. I can't even post or PM his new url. Nothing he has done can be as disgusting and totally...

Ok, thanks very much, So in this case your edge was a 'dicovery', rather than an 'ability' by the trader, like I think is the way whitster uses it. Ursa..

If he would be concerned about the number of members he would have banned you long ago; many people get sick to the stomach from your smelling vomits, and I would stop reading this forum if many more of your type would enter. But I think he keeps you on for a while so they can trace down you IP...

I agree, I think he's ok and his understanding of the trade is beyond almost all here. He is houseguest on a different forum now. If I would post the url it gets censored, even in PM's. Also, the other site doesn't want to publish the url just like that, would cause to many annoying ppl to...

Hoodoo, thanks for being so frank. Could you tell us what your 'edge' was? I find it a very unclear concept, and most won't talk about it for fear of giving it away, but since your's is not working anymore you might want to explain it to us. Some mean by 'edge' some special 'effect' in the...

Agreed. Now if only those lame patriot-act type laws would have as a side effect that ppl like that could be traced down and picked up (yes I mean you, WAKE_UP) and put behind bars indefinitely, just for interogation and stuff, now that would be a good thing. Ursa..

Think? Maybe his horses can do somethinking. Whenever he takes a holiday at the rannch it is because he isn't needed in DC and the job is done already for him. No, just as I predicted that he would start a major war about 6 months before he was elected the first time, I now predict that he...

He offers hope that things might change, instead of the same old crap coming from DC as usual. Maybe pulling troops from Iraq is not explicit enough for you? The country is as divided as it can be, because of the attitude of the current administration. Letting 9/11 happen with ample warnings...

Like this? Not candles, but ticks.

Yes, there is a differerence. Lookup an explanation of the BS-formula's, Natenberg is a good source but not online, and you will see that the probability-function (itself based on expected volatility) of the expiration-price is an input to the formula. Delta is an output. They are similar, but...

Yes you should cover you losses at some point. If you'd sold naked puts (which is equivalent) you certainly would roll down the put, and take the loss when you do. Ursa..

FA=Fundamental analysis. Since you said you were bad at stockpicking but also that you used FA as a basis for choice I assumed you do a 'best estimate of the future' direction. That's a ok strategy in itself. Using bull spreads for that is also ok, if you like them, but then you bet on time...

Your spreads are relatively vol-neutral; if anything, when high IV they are cheaper and their value increases when IV goes down. Re: longer terms, I don't see an advantage there. Of course you can get farther down and still get your 25% ratio, but otoh there is more time for the underlyer to...

To be clear, you need an actual volatility together with underlyer price, strike, time and interest/dividend to calculate the fair premium and the relevant greeks. When the premium is known in advance you can calculate the volatility the would lead to, or imply that premium. Hence implied...

How do you spend 175k$ on spreads, like you said on 02-05-07 07:06 PM with numbers like this? Maybe I missed something? Ursa..

You came to the wrong crowd then :). Would you rather be selling insurances of be the dumb sheep buying them. Besides, the position is exactly analogous. You are currently trading put bull (credit) spreads already. No difference at all. Welcome to the crowd. You get 250, maybe you can...

That's a smart move, I tried to PM the address to PT and got only *****'s instead of www.************ :) Ursa..

MTE, what a nice metaphore, really! This is exactly what happens so often here, someone exemplifying a quite complicated strategy that is equivalent to something far simpler and clearer. I think 1 in every 10 threads is, at the heart, about these equivalences. To yucca_mtn, I fail to see how...