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When you say "short sales" do you mean selling (writing) option contracts? It just depends on how you do it how risky it is. If you do credit spreads (so, you sell and option and buy an option to limit your downside), it mitigates risk. You can also do covered calls or covered puts (calls are...

What you are talking about is called a straddle. You can Google that term along with stock options and find a lot of info. Volatility and time premiums are priced into options, so that is the flaw in your thinking. The pricing models take all of this stuff into account, so it's not...

I like it choppy. I cut my teeth on "rolling stocks" doing trades every few months or so. It feels about the same to me, but doesn't require as much patience on my part. What I like to do is trade a choppy day around 11-2 or so, for the most parts the price movements are gentle and you can...

How basic do you want to go? Futures contracts are all different sizes. Here's a chart that has the sizes for some of the common ones. Since they are different sizes, a point movement in a futures contract does not correspond to a $1 movement per contract in terms of your money. The chart...

What about switching the base currency for your account to something other than the dollar? What are the downsides to this? I've been considering it.

Has anyone else checked out this resource: http://scholar.google.com , some of the books are free, so far I've found these full texts, but I'm sure there are many others: Technical Analysis Explained...

I thought even in bankruptcy, you can't default on a student loan?

Ed, who do you trade with? IB actually makes it easy on their statements to match up transactions quickly with the "O" (open) and "C" (close) codes. I used to trade a lot with TDAmeritrade (back when they were just Ameritrade) and my husband wrote me a script in PERL that would spit out all...

I have bundled, but I should probably switch to unbundled, just looking at it it appears it would be cheaper for almost all of the trades I've done. So, for add liquidity or remove liquidity, does this just correspond to whether the trade is immediately filled or not? So, if I place a sell...

I'd been noticing the smart router (I use IB) usually ends up routing to the NYSE for stocks that trade on the NYSE. I'm more familiar with ISLAND, so sometimes I was modifying it to go there instead. It was just familiarity on my part, guess I'll just let it do its thing from now on. Thanks...

Does it matter which exchange my order is routed to in most cases? Do you just choose the one with the biggest volume? Using smart routing, my order is routed to the exchange with the best price currently, correct? This only seems like it would matter if I am using a market order (I use limit...

I used to do this kind of trading and am just now getting into trading again (after a hiatus during which I had 2 kids). I'd like to follow your journal. What is your list of stocks that you like to pull from for your trades?