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That sums it all up right there. To make it trading options you need to understand many strategies and know when to use each one. Strategies that work when IV is very high probably won't work correctly when IV is very low. Strategies that work when the market is moving up won't work when it is...

I personally still use TOS, even though I do think they have gone down hill a bit since the buyout. I negotiated $4.95 + $0.65/contract for my commission rate. That may sound expensive, and it is if you only trade a few contracts at a time, but it saves money if you trade more contracts. For...

While this is 100% true, the inverse is also true. If you are right on direction but wrong on volatility you can still find yourself losing or barely making a profit on what should have been a winning trade.

I only read the first and last pages of this silly thread but I don't see anyone who has gotten the answer correct yet. There is NO analysis that is 100% correct, Technical, Fundamental or otherwise. The most common types of analysis work but only because they are self fulfilling prophesies...

When volatility is very low debit spreads (spreads you buy) are preferred. When volatility is very high then go with credit spreads (spreads you sell). With volatility in the middle ratio spreads, condors, and butterflies with lower Vega are preferred. Why is this? When I say volatility is...

In that respect, they are regulated the same way any other company is regulated.....with false advertising and consumer protection laws. If someone were to take them to court and be able to prove the claims are false then the company would have to pay. While these laws aren't the best, I would...

LOL yeah ET is filled with people looking for the holy grail. To me the first thing people need to learn is that there will never be such a thing as an entry signal that is 100% accurate unless you can invent and be the sole owner of a time machine. All you really need though is a...

Once again even if you got a perfect Delta of 1 (using 1 or more contracts) you are still not going to have a perfect match with the underlying. Why? You still have to worry about the other greeks (most notably Theta and Vega). Theta represents time decay and Vega is your volatility risk. So if...

Buy Straddles?

So...to summarize: Online is great for buying hard to get food items but you have never ordered food online? Other than placing an online order to have your local pizzeria deliver a pizza to your house, what other kinds of food do people really order?

I am shocked that no one has bothered to mention trading style. Super fast computers and blazing internet speed is only needed for high speed day trading. That is trading in and out in just a few seconds to a minute most likely using tick charts or using some sort of high speed automated...

See...here in lies the problem with how "outsiders" view options. First it would be pretty damn hard to buy or sell options to get an exact dollar for dollar movement with the underlying. With options however you may gain less looking at dollar for dollar but it will be for a MUCH lower...

Seminars, books, and other training materials can provide a good foundation to start from and I would suggest that anyone interested in trading learn at least the basic principals and theories before even attempting to do so. I doubt any of them are going to hand you a full fledged trading plan...

I found an old article from Germany that is related to what Dataa said early in this thread. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,587546,00.html Also if you want to make your web browsing a bit more anonymous then try Tor. http://www.torproject.org/

I wonder how much Apple spent on iOS, Google spent creating Android or Palm spent on Palm OS. All of which either are already or will likely soon be on Tablet style PC's (similar to the iPad) and these will probably mature into quite competitive OS's. Nothing is done overnight and version 1 of...

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Thanks. I did add a third requirement after you quoted me though. That is the drug testing requirement.

I want to add that I am not uncaring but I do think the current version of the Welfare program is broken and only serves to encourage people to be lazy and mooch off of the system. My idea would be to first and foremost to provide the most and best benefits to those that are physically or...

While this is partially true, direct tax cuts WITHOUT an increase in Consumer Demand will not translate into more jobs, Tax INCREASES will NEVER create more jobs and will only cause the companies to add the tax increases into the prices they charge for their goods and services there by...

To get more and more people dependent on government programs until we become a socialist country.