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Here's a nice chart of the aapl vix index.... vxapl http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/VXAPL/tab/2 As mentioned, notice how the iv spikes on aug. 20 on the 5 day chart from 22 to 30 probably due to the huge demand for aapl calls on that day. It then quickly collapses from 30 to 27. I did...

Options day trading is very risky with lots of unpredictable and maddening events. The trading is much messier than trading a stock with good volume. For me, I want to limit my risk by limiting the amount of money I have exposed while still benefiting from large stock moves. It's really...

I have learned a great deal from both http://www.sanglucci.com/ and John Carter http://www.simpleroptions.com/ but I disagree with some of their teachings. Take what you like and leave the rest. You may want to check these sites out. Both provide plenty of free info.

Many times options prices will be exaggerated on strong uptrends or downtrends and then when there is a correction, that will also be exaggerated all intraday. Strong trends bring out big demand especially in aapl which exaggerates option prices relative to the stock move. As an option...

You may want to take a closer look at aapl's stock chart. Notice how aapl had a strong pullback from 12:24 TO 12:45 EASTERN, from about 664 to 659 and then went on to close near the hod. The option chart mirrored this but often does so in an exaggerated way...

Where are you buying your lenovos? Look at these reseller ratings on lenovo.com if I buy direct: http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Lenovo

They seem to have an excellent reputation on amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/aag/details/ref=aag_m_fb?ie=UTF8&asin=&isAmazonFulfilled=&isCBA=&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&seller=AUQKNZ1OCJZ06 look at the feedback rating...

I may upgrade to a small 64gb ssd with a second 500gb 7200rpm hdd. Does that seem wise?

Many thanks for all of the wonderful input.

Please expand on this. I was looking into a portable usb monitor. Are you saying you were never able to get any of them to work reasonably well?? for example: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=830576&is=REG&Q=&A=details...

Please provide input for my new laptop purchase for trading. I trade with lots of extra applications for finding good stocks to trade so I need some extra cpu power. I want to make sure I have plenty of excess capacity for all of my trading needs. I will NOT be using this laptop for...

I would like to add some books to the book review tab at the top green menu of ET. How do I do that?

Does anyone here use both option charts AND the underlying stock chart when DAY trading options? I use both as I like to see what's happening with whatever I'm trading. The option chart let's me know what's going on with my money. If I only look at the stock chart I'm missing crucial info...

Here's a link to Stockvision Power Scan. It is an excellent scanner but takes awhile to learn. http://www.garsworld.com/product_PS.htm They have a 10 day free trial.

So, IB says their trade desk will help execute options orders above 500 contracts. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/pdfhighlights/PDF-OptionsDesk.php Is this what you mean?

How are very large options orders executed? I mean orders that are much larger than the current bid or ask size. For example, today someone bought 10,000 contracts of the Dec 12 115 Put for $4.80 at 11:04:41 on the ISE exchange with the underlying at 132.22. The bid/ask size for that...

I'd like to use it to quickly accumulate larger positions for me on maybe 5 or 10 strong stocks on a stock market up day. It would be much easier to automate such a task than manually trying to fill all of those orders. I could have a sell algo running at the same time and it would serve as...

Many thanks for the insights. It seems that I cannot choose this in the top part of the algorithm choices: "take entire offer(up to number of shares remaining) if the offer size is..." if I specify anything in the position condition below it. The link below is different than the...

Has anyone had any experience with this? It looks remarkably powerful. Does it work as stated? The demo seems to have glitches. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/tws/twsguide.htm here is an article by Thomas Peterffy on it...

Anybody using prophetcharts? I loved using these on the old free and paid versions of prophet.net . The user's guide listed on the TOS site is quite incomplete... http://mediaserver.thinkorswim.com/demos/prophetGuide.html I am wondering if they still have the intraday screener built...