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My conclusions: - Linux is technologically superior to Windows in many ways. but - Linux is still, as you say, more complex than the alternatives. - Linux does not have billions of dollars of marketing behind it. - There is no catalyst to spur a large adoption of Linux at this...

Windows is also continuously test and criticized by users and developers. The difference is that usability testing is a formal procedure by the MS development teams. The "bunch of kids somewhere on the W-Coast" comment isn't even close to accurate by the way. Some of the smartest people I...

You guys seem to be arguing with yourselves. I know that MS has an OS monopoly and that people are limited in their choices. That's the whole point! Again, that's my point! The MS monopoly will not be broken overnight. THERE IS NO CATALYST. The grassroots Linux movement will continue at...

I'll disagree with you again here. :D I've been a DBA and a developer on both SQL Server and Oracle systems. Compared to Oracle, SQL Server is still garbage in my opinion. SQL Server has Oracle beat hands down as far as ease-of-use, but unlike on the desktop that doesn't matter nearly as much...

Well, we can all argue about it until we are blue in the face, but the market has spoken and will continue to speak. The market-share numbers don't support a huge adoption of Linux, just a gradual creep up. And I don't see a catalyst for a big upswing in the Linux numbers. I don't know...

Actually, I agree with you that Linux is great. I have a Debian box running at home that I enjoy spending time on. I sure as hell would not give it to my mother to use though, and she navigates around Windows fine. In the October Linux Format magazine you'll find one of the editors agreeing...

Says the man with 500 posts since September. :)

The same people that have been putting up with them for years. MS will continue to lose small amounts of market share to Linux etc., but there will not be a large deluge until Linux gets their shit together. The main reason that MS will continue for a while is just momentum. IT leaders do...

Hey Mav, this reminds me of something I remember reading that you wrote once. The more times you have to adjust, the worse off you are. The more transactions you make, the more transaction costs/spread costs you have to pay. Unless I am misunderstanding your debit/credit question, I think...

Well, he's answered similar "Why don't you" questions before. This thread is about a particular technique. There are thousands of good option strategies, and optioncoach is just trying to present one that has worked for him. I know you have also started educational threads on different...

Wow ugly day today. Hindsight being 20/20, I should have given up a nickel yesterday and gotten out of my OCT 1125/1140 at .15 instead of holding on for .10. Now it is at .20/1.05. Ah well. Wish I would have had my margin free to go back in for Novembers today. I am doing a bit of an...

Well, I'm not Phil, but for me I don't want any more margin than the SPX provides. I'm not planning on ever using more than half my account for these as it is. That is the max risk I am comfortable with. The advantages of more margin are, for the most part, only needed if you want to raise...

The account this position is in is also at OptionsXpress. I will be transferring another account to Think or Swim soon, I believe, to give them a try. I have heard good things.

B and B here. EDIT: Hey you changed the categories! :p I am B and C in your new setup. Also, I am not a full time trader. Another advantage of this strategy is that it doesn't require full time monitoring.

I've been following along with this journal for a few months and papertrading a few positions to get a feel for it. I opened my first real position today. I did this same position as you but managed to get $0.65 right at the close after opening it an hour and a half before market close. I...