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Well to be honest I couldn't give you an average maintenance cost for a average year, been meaning to do that for my own records... But, your 'normal' maintenance costs are 1. A/C Fix Note this is all relative, but say you are renting a 3 bed/2 bath, 2,000 ad. sq ft., you are looking...

LOL this post probably belongs in chit chat. If you are going to rent to low income, instead of renting to people paying out of their own pocket you are better off renting to people who have HUD Section 8 vouchers which are good for one year and are renewed every year. Theoretically, if...

Nice trade LAtrojan, from the closing price of the 125's yesterday your trade would have made 38% at the closing price today :) I know you said you entered 30 minutes before the close, but I'd imagine your profit was somewhere in that range. Good job! Also interesting is that the implied...

I meant price of the underlying when I mentioned option volatility. I'm just trying to find out if there are other risks outside of option volatility/greeks/underlying/assignment. Like for example ex-dividend date or something that comes up when you are short that I wouldn't realize as...

Hi guys. I'm missing something in my reading; what are the risks of being short option straddles? I know that foremost is options volatility. What are the other risks? Do Ex-dividend dates affect pricing? What else? Thanks!

Thanks for the reply LAtrojan and spindr0. Learning new stuff : )

Care to elaborate on your criteria? What made you choose AAPL and not RIMM? I've thought about doing this, but with unlimited risk...only takes one to fuck you up. Maybe on something conservative (relatively) like retailers, but on high flying techs? I dunno.

I understand your point monty, but when you're 18 you aren't going to listen man!!! When I first started at 18 I blew up small accounts and turned away from trading, but that has definitely helped me now that I came back to the market and understand hedging risk. How are you going to know...

Hey Hester. I'm in a similar situation and probably similar mindset so I'll try to contribute from my experience. I'm 22 in college, have 5 houses (dad passed away; I rent four, live in one), similar amount liquid but I trade with around $30k (just above PDT limit, which is dumb because...

Thanks for the response valpak! I realize I know jack about options spreads. Time to read!!! Thanks again.

Hi huh! I like your journal, its cool. I am an option newbie so, if you have time to answer this question I pose, thanks a lot! In your original post you say: The goal is to have the long RUT spread stay in the money and gain value while the short IWM option loses premium value and...

Indeed, downloaded API and figured it out with their sample sheet. Thanks!

Hello, is it possible to get realtime options quotes in Excel through IB? I'd imagine this can be done with API, however I have no programming experience. Perhaps this is easy to code? Any help would be much appreciated!

I read the Yahoo message boards. LOL, a real circus. Anyhow, many traders there put straddles on ARNA, Arena Pharmaceuticals, for their announcement Monday. Obesity-wonder drug. Easy money right? I checked it out on IB (hell I want to make easy money too), I think IV was 200% higher than...

Only chiguy and total keops post consistently, Don every once in awhile. I will soon, once I get my capital up!

I can't verify that as an Opening's trader because I'm still trying to learn the system myself. But, I recently read 6+years worth of the Don's Opening Order's threads, and from 2001 there were doubts as to whether the system was profitable or not....and time and time again it showed...

Pocket change!?!?!?!? Sir I'm in college, $951 is major !!! Heck with $50 I can take two breezies out to the movies and buy a popcorn!!!! Back to studying.

Hi Don and others! I read through most of the Don's opening orders threads from 2001-06....my eyes hurt. But it's cool to see the new soldiers carrying the torch! total keops and chiguy are like the new lescor and mgkrebs (is that weird that I became a fan of the opening orders people like...

Nice gains Ben! For FLS ans FLR, did you look back at prior earnings releases for guidance for this latest release? With the current economy I figured everyone has to watch out for downside suprises!!

But most of their billions is tied up in stock, correct? They don't have liquid access to that money on the ready, so they have to maintain their performance/success so they can slowly take out their money over time. That's how I see it.