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SWB flying, oil crisis, avian flu - all signs of the end???

Having a lot of SUCKERS using wizetrade

'The big moves do not start and end on the same day' 'More money is lost in the first and last 1/8th of a move than anywhere else' - Jesse Livermore My hat's off to those nimble to dance around intraday moves - just not my bag. My take is if it's worth getting into today, it's worth...

I have found it be a good exercise to write an equally enthusiastic counterpoint to any exuberant rantings before I depart with actual cash.

Sign up to this site and start a favorites list, maybe the nasdaq 100 to start for educational purposes. Compare the IV & HV chart to the stock chart for past and current events to gain experience. http://www.ivolatility.com/manage_favourites.j

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When we say "winnng trade" we are really saying "correct direction." But who cares about correct direction? What we really want is a big move, i.e. volatility. Join the world of market-neutral option traders and smash that silly crystal ball already.

PS: Pure practice does not involve debate, enforcement, or holier-than-thou lectures... Wishing love, happiness, and success to you all... signing out X :cool:

Spiritual Statistics on ET Occurence of following words in posts: Holy -- 193 Goddamn -- 9 fucking -- 108 Shit -- 385 :eek:

What? Spirituality?? On this board??? :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p

Next time perhaps you can trade the index, Euro-style: http://www.cboe.com/Products/indexopts/oix_spec.aspx

Soros book ok for a bookstore read; better is Neiderhoffer "Practical Speculation", more math and stats talk; Options, Pricing, and Volatility (Natenberg, 1994 2nd Ed) is a great book on market dynamics. In reality, a good hi-level stats book on autoregression, distribution curves, and...

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/education/priorWebinars.php?ib_entity=llc a few there also Martin Pring's books come w/video CD (slides with audio commentary) just what you're looking for

If you are buying ITM options, for example, an ITM call during a bullish trend, then a deep OTM put will be very cheap (small % of the call) and will cover your gap risk. This combined with a STP LMT on your ITM call will improve your chances (gap or no gap down) of retaining your initial cost...

I noticed in the IB pricing history of some ES, SPX puts that large spikes (4 to 5 times the put value) occurred regularly. Can this induce a margin call and wipe out an account, even if the spikes were erroneous? Has this or anything similar happened to you? many thx

press the start button press the "run.." link type in services.msc find "Windows Installer" click on it, click "properties" then click "disable" next time, before you install a program, reset it to "manual" this is a recommended security measure regardless

http://www.prophet.net/quotes/options.jsp delayed option prices http://www.hoadley.net/options/options.htm free software for option spread combo pricing http://www.ivolatility.com/options.j?ticker=spx&R=1 option average IV, HV http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/main.php Option...

GOOG floundering between 50ma and 200ma; another wave of insider selling; volatility ready to revert; RS to Q's rolling over; an ounce of bad news and a drop below 200ma could start a good 50pt drop

Here is an example of a long GOOG DN strangle, comparing theoretical to actual pricing. Comments/corrections welcome. Regards

what is all this crap about safe investing on ET??? Has this become a nursing home for aging traders:confused: :confused: :confused: