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Of course, I'd better buy ITM calls with a delta of 1 if I am going to play it over the weekend right? My idea however is risking a small amount like max. 50 cents/contract to make an equal small amount so a smaller delta might be better.

Hey I am looking into buying QQQ 35 calls tomorrow and hold them over the weekend for the bounce that 's getting overdue )to 100 MA?). I plan to liquidate early next week. Can I still go with the Feb if expiration is next week, do they lose much time value over the weekend ? Thank you

Alain and Funster, Isn't it easier to trade Dax with S&P as an indicator , Bund with the T-Bonds? plus you guys can trade the eminis during the night session I often see nice trend in the night session.

Is 5 years considered long in the industry?:confused:

Why don't you stop trading them for a while or trade less like just the first hour and the last , I think the first is much easier though. It hasn't been a waste of time anyway. I realized that my emini trading made me understand the dynamics of the markets and greatly improved my entries on...

Keep trying. It's very tough trading eminis. I know I am experiencing the same difficult time. My losses are very small, I know just one trade can put me back in the black. Don't give up on TA it's the only way to trade, it's works well with the eminis too but heck it's not classic TA! Look for...

Don, You said: "Conversions are kept until expiration" Are you talking about conversion arbitrage ? Why would you keep the conversion until expiration otherwise? And how frequent are arbitrage opportunities considering all costs?Thanks

AAA, Do you just ask your futures broker to send you Futures Mag or what? Sounds like too good a deal. Thanks

Alain, Active Trader has some interesting articles like the ones on option trading ( for me a novice in option), the trader's interviews (I like to read the face of trading page) and the hardware articles but as far as trading techniques it is often not very valuable IMO. A lot of the...

I was just wondering if anybody had tried this in a retail account. I am not about to try it until I have more experience in real life option trading and made sure a retail broker will execute it.

Nitro, So IB allows conversion or what? I don't see how it could be too risky to enter the conversion manually if you do it before the stock start moving . Again here I don't know if it would make sense to do this in real life trading but say you are pretty sure a stock is heading down in the...

Is there any retail broker allowing conversions? I read bullets are only for pros and retail accounts don't have access to it but technically why wouldn't you be able to do this with 2 accounts? You would sell calls in one and buy puts exactly at the same time in the other to get short and then...

Def, if you happen to read this or anyone who knows can you tell me if when I modify an order my initial order is still working on the exchange until the new modified order is acknowledged ( see my recent question on IB Globex stops thread). TWS manual is not clear about this. Thank you.

Never saw IB DOM showing real time data, I don't know why since their inside quote is real time. Now I am not sure I would watch it anyway, like the T&S it's so fast. The only thing that I would like to know is for those who have access to it, can you tell when the market falls to support for...

I have a question regarding the modification of stops on Globex or on other exchanges. This is something I have grown quite nervous about since I have had a few disconnections due to my ISP. When I enter a position I always have my stop already prepared and sometimes even entered. In any case...

THANK YOU VERY MUCH beyond running a word processor, spread sheet and my quote software I am afraid I don't know sh*t. So what 's the advantage of downloading Pingplotter (how much does it cost BTW)? Is it just to monitor the status of your connection in real time rather than doing netstat all...

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Thanks tom p. I am also trying to figure out how to set alarms, their alarm options are like their fee structure way too complicated for me. I just want to be notified when a price reach a predetermined level. I tried to set an alarm in Global alarms typing a message like Buy QLGC above 51...

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I'd like to ping Nextrend servers, what target name should I use?

I would like to ping Nextrend and LiveCharts(or Qcharts), how do I find out their address? Does anyone know which servers I should ping? Thank you for your help, I am kind of lost when it comes to these things.