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I know what you mean...seriously...although I feel uncomfortable coming down on the side of more censorship, much of the board has become unreadable. Please get the cranks off of the message board! So what if they are just trolling?

I've lived in PB for 3 years in a crappy little appartment near the beach. Despite being an old building, and also being about the cheapest place to live in all of PB within 5 blocks of the beach, I don't see any roaches or mice. Occasionally if I leave the screen to the backdoor open at...

I'm curious how that would work? Do you have any details?

Just FYI, this is potentially a fairly big project you are asking for. Also, in order to get serious programmers interested in bidding on your project, you should write a detailed outline for all of the functionality you need. From what you have written so far it would be hard for a...

I had been interested in buying an Aeron chair for years, but always was reluctant to spend 700 dollars or so on a chair, because I am extremely cheap. Finally, one day when my back pain was getting really bad, I went to the Healthy Back store to buy an Aeron chair about 2 years ago. The...

If your not using a lot of leverage, selling ATM naked premium is just fine and probably much safer than the way many of the people selling those much "safer" spreads are trading. I suspect, the real reason many people trade spreads instead of naked options is not really to increase safety...

I just tried the command line utility that they provide for downloading historical data. I tested it, by downloading one day of MSFT tick data. It took a very long time. Like maybe an hour. The file is a 110 meg text file. It seemed though that the slowdown was not from transfering the...

I'd read McMillan first. It seems more basic than Natenburg.

I'm definately still interested. The recent market volatility has made me very interested in increasing the percentage of my capital I put into CEF's. I recently sold BGT at a profit, because the discount to NAV had closed since I bought it. Coach, do you generally sell your CEF's when the...

I was looking at INF, an Indian stock cef. I noticed that both MSN and finance.yahoo.com say that it has a 12.90% dividend yield: MSN yahoo But when I look on etfconnect it says it has only a 0.27% yield. Could someone please explain why the numbers are different?

I think it's an encouraging step in the right direction, and b/o spreads will improve. This makes me very happy. Exchanges and brokerages charging cancellation fees will still discourage spreads from narrowing, as retail traders are always going to be reluctant to provide liquidity if they...

I respectably suggest that with a $6000 loss you may be paying too high of a tuition cost here. The great thing about options is they allow you to limit your risks to almost exactly any level you want. You could be learning just as fast trading 1-contract sized vertical spreads, calander...

I really don't know. Obviously, the price of any stock can go anywhere no matter what the fundamentals say. I'm not saying that a spike based on "fundamentals" automatically can't be faded. The thing with stuff like court cases and FDA rulings, etc...is that they often fundamentally and...

Hey, don't knock going closer to the underlying. This can be a good way to decrease certain types of risk. For example, selling premium closer to the ATM strikes allows you to take in more premium and therefore reduce risk by selling less contracts than you otherwise would further OTM.

I added a small amount to an existing position during a intra-day pull-back yesterday. I want more shares, but am hoping for more pullback before I buy anymore above my cost basis. I wouldn't expect MO to trade back down to where it traded prior to the big jump yesterday though. Although I...

I have to agree. The few times I've ever needed to get ahold of anyone at IB it has been quick and they've been extremely helpful.

I think the thread was titled "High Frequency Trading" or something like that.

I think he is one of the better commentators on realmoney.com. Of course, I only read realmoney.com. for Altucher, Rev Schark, Cody Williard, and Cramer...people you guys probably don't like either. Specific calls of his have made me money in the past so I always pay attention to his columns...

Got the other side of that trade...good luck!

I'm really sorry to hear that. I stumbled upon some of your old posts a few months ago while doing a search, and spent several days reading everything you've written here while taking notes. Some of the stuff that you've written has really opened my eyes to ideas I had never thought of...