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Stanford What town and province of Canada you in? Boy you go take a nap for an hour on the verandah hammock and the market goes to hell. Got to watch it every minute mon!

Stanford You caught it. 1875/1850 PUTS ******************************* Whoops almost 2 p.m. market time and noon local time and the OEX dropped below 500 to 498. Aiiiiii! Shouldn't do that. Humid day here, sweating. Got thunder rumbling over the foothills of the...

Stanford Okay thanks for that information on NDX margin. I put on a scratch paper trade just now for 20 contracts of 1875/1750 for a credit of .70 cents. That is $50,000 in margin and sold at .70 cents credit. Went to a 2% deviation as it is a WEEKLY and expires tomorrow afternoon...

Stanford I still don't know how to calculate it, as I've lost my working scratch paper. I know I sold it originally for a .30 credit. If I remember rightly when the market moved up, I closed it for $2.20, which I thought was a + amount? There is where I get confused. Because the Call...

STanford You hit a sore point. I was trying to puzzle that out last night and didn't figure it out. If you get an answer please tell m I originally got a credit right? So which of the two credit spreads made money. The Call spread because the market moved toward it? Or the Put...

Stanford figuring things out. Vertical credit spreads as a directional play in the monthly. The NDX went up from 1860 to 1882 and the CALL SPREAD lost $8.30 The same index move upward ( bull move) the PUT spread made +$2.20 OKAAAAAY !!! Vertical spreads as a...

Really a humdinger this afternoon Wednesday. The premiums are all over the place both in the OEX and the NDX. In the NDX surprisingly enough I cannot even find the strike prices I want. Actually same in the OEX but not quite so bad. Just have to wait watch and see. It does look like the...

For statistical data you want just print out six months,s or a year of monthly bar charts, or weekly and figure the open, high, low, close and do your calculations. Thats what I did.

I have slow wireless dialup internet at 115 kbps. Too slow and too small a bandwidth to run the TOS desktop version. I´m expecting one of two new approaching Internet providers to arrive in the next few months. They want $300 a month or so though. My brief look at the NDX weekly didn´t...

Dr. Gonzo I did find the website for Xtrenders.com thankyou. Best thing I got from it, was a vacation spot he mentioned in Turkey called Yalikavak, Bodrum Turkey. Going to look it up and see if it is worth a vacation? Place for sailors, or yachties was the impression I got...

Does anybody have a URL for real time data charting of the OEX? Used to have this 20 years ago, but long lost now For Stanford For the NDX I have 2000 for CALL spread and 1750 PUT for an Iron Condor pick. So far, nothing showing in premiums for the 2000. Just waiting for the market...

Well I threw XTRENDERS and Mitch into GOOGLE but came up with nothing. Sounds like an interesting look see.

stanford Correct on the down move before putting the PUT spread. I usually have targets. For instance I draw up a sheet with the sTRIKES and 5 days for weekly, and periodicallly when I check the market, mark in the spaces alloted for each strike and each day the line of progress of...

The same number of strikes away in an Iron Condor? The short answer is no! TOS have an IRON CONDOR entry which probably automatically does it that way. But you can delete or back space any of those order boxes and change the strikes if you want. Normally I leg into an Iron Condor. Do...

Stanford Yes! I did some looking at the NDX Sunday. If you have 125 pts out from the week opening for OTM I have not found any instance in the CALL SPREAD where you would have been hit. You get threatened a few times at 100 pts above the opening of the week. On the down side, the BULL...

Stanford From one newbie to another. ---------------------------- -I took a quick look at my Delta idea on the option chain for NDX in the weekly premiums. The idea I had was to enter on a DELTA 8 thereabouts and rollover on a Delta 12 or 16. So I was looking for the cost of...

Jerkstore Thanks for the comeback. Would be very interested in hearing from ATTICUS on his time decay tactics? -You should try to take some tips from atticus. He collects decay, but does so in a way that his losses are limited, AND he sets himself up to win if the black swan event...

Stanford Been looking at the NDX Interesting to note they have weeklies. Was wondering how far out you could go and still get premium. Bit of learning to do switching the strikes in my mind. I´m very interested in what a ROLLOVER would cost you done when the delta doubles...

Stanford How far apart are you putting your - Out the options- from the action when you put them on? In the NDX? Next question, have you tried a ROLLOVER same month yet? If so, how much do you lose, if any, and where do you start, if you are going to keep a constant number of...

Well I got out of the STRANGLE and not going to trade such a margin expensive trade again. $9000 margin per contract versus the $500 for Vertical Credit Spreads. The Short Strangle and the Short Straddle only earned as a credit spread 1/2 of 1% on a trade. With margin so high, not even...