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You would do well to ignore any posts suggesting that you start selling puts on your nest egg. Very bad advice, given when looking in the rear view mirror at a 10 year bull market.

You're wasting your time going down a deep rabbit hole. Jack delighted in wrapping newbies up in complexity. It was a special talent of his. Much like an absent-minded professor. My advice is that if you're trying to follow a system that you can't understand in a few minutes of study, then...

InvestorRT at linnsoft.com provides backtesting and playback of previous days.

If you don't know your own level of tolerable risk, then the answer to your question as to how many contracts to trade is 0.

Look at InvestorRT at www.linnsoft.com. Email them and explain your objectives.

Yes, in fact, I can picture that. Interesting.

11/25/2019 -- Breaks below 12 for the first time in a year.

Self-serving pablum. When it comes to writing meaningless drivel designed to evade any hint of a conclusion, politicians can learn a few things from financial executives. My favorite from a recent Bloomberg TV interview with a financial adviser: "There is a 50% chance that the market will be...

You may want to start by building lists created using fundamentals from a stock scanner. Then run them through your system. As one example, when I used to trade equities from the long side, I found that a strong EPS helped to enhance returns. Try growth, beta, volume, dividends, etc. etc.

And likely another contributing factor to what insurers reported last week as very poor millenial health compared to other generations.

First, if there is nobody on the other side willing to make the trade, then it isn't going to happen. Second, if you want into a stock, you should be so lucky that it is only a penny spread. I mean, really, kids these days. Zero commissions and penny spreads and still not satisfied. Let me...

IB has conditional sell-at-time orders. Sell your holding at 15:59:50 and buy your new at MOC. Over time, it will all average out because you`re trading indexes.

Happy Veteran's Day to my fellow vets. Our president this week was convicted of stealing funds raised for veterans, which he used for his campaign, and for buying a portrait of himself. Yes, a president worth fighting for...

There are at least 2 brokers that offer conditional-at-time orders, with which you can specify the time for an order to trigger. For example, a few seconds before the close.

You won't do that on SPY. But you can, potentially, on 3xETFs/ETNs that trade options.

Yes, you are only at risk for the cost of the position. The only way for you to know if calls would work for you is to make a few trades and watch them develop. Everything else is just speculation.

Long calls or puts can work for you IF you have a very strong system for the underlying that consistently delivers big gains short term, and if you have strong volume with tight spreads. Otherwise, you'll just bleed your account.

Every stock is different. Every day is different. Every trade is different. You'll know the answer to your question only through your own experience. Push the limit until you reach it.

Flip your strategy. Keep your stocks, and buy index futures as a replacement for tying up funds in index funds. Options strategies as a replacement for underlying equities will ALWAYS carry additional costs and hassles.

Don't be so certain. Many of these schemes are very sophisticated, and hook intelligent, experienced investors. By any chance ever heard of WeWork ??