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I am not but someone must be, because they traded over 14,500 contracts today and there is plenty of open interest on the strikes. I attached a picture of today's volume and open interest for today in the jan '08 options in case you want to see how it breaks down between the calls puts, and...

The rule of thumb I have always heard is that it costs about 3% of your portfolio to hedge it. I ran a portfolio containing only 716 shares of the Diamonds (the Dow ETF) which has a value of $100,000 through my hedgefinder using the cash-settled djx options (using a time frame out to the June...

It depends what you are doing of course. You need to worry more about the price when you are swing trading for the short term. But I have used ETFs primarily to create a portfolio and plan on holding them at least a year. So now I almost always put in a market order. I have tried to...

I LIked this current article i saw on marketwatch. This familiar with the Hulbert financial digest knows that he follows hundreds of newsletters, advisories, etc. and tracks their returns over the long term. The article is at...

Did you see the article today in the front section of the Wall Street Journal that talks about how past production problems and shortages now mean the 787 Dreamliner is on the tightest schedule ever attempted for the testing/ launch. They talk in the article about how everything in this...

Have you looked at DiscoverOptions Personal Mentoring, which is run by OptionVue - the company Dan always worked with until he decided to go out on his own recently? http://www.discoveroptions.com/public/pages/mentoring/mentoringOverview.html

Anglogold Trades under the symbol AGG on the ASX, but it does not have options there (it does trade options in the US under the symbol you mentioned, AU). As to the liquidity, there are only about 20 names that trade at least Australian$ 20,000 or more of options, on average, each day. I...

For selling OTM calls, were you talking about doing that on each stock individually (if they have options trading)? Because I did notice that there is the ability to not only get the recommended number of puts to purchase in chosen index (say the SPX), but then you also have the further...

I have seen the site before, but have never have met anyone who had ever tried it or knows anything about the guy. At least he doesn't make those outlandish claims about high returns (such as: make 302% in 4 months trading for just minutes a week!) however, the only testimonial he has...

I think it is usually worth it to keep at least a little bit of the things that will perform well if inflation/stagflation increases and that (usually) have a low correlation with the stock market, such as real estate and commodities. I have small pieces (about 2.5% of total portfolio) in...

I know that OptionVue 5 (which I use) has a tool called HedgeFinder that lets you graph a portfolio of stocks and options against an index (say the S&P 500) that tell you how much you are likely to gain/lose based on movements of the SPX. It also has a tool that will automatically recommend...

That seems a very short time frame, and I am not a pro, but I can at least I plug those parameters in my software (target of the underlying stock price moving to to $105 by 9/30/07, no overall change in volatility levels, looking at all covered strategies using $1,000 of capital) and the top two...

It is easy to see where the volume drops off. I usually use a figure of about $50,000 in options traded per day as a cut-off. The list I attached shows those equities (stocks and ETFs) that have at least that much trading (DVO stands for Dollar Volume of Options traded, and it is the...

Using OptionVue5, with the add-on module called BackTrader. Basically they take a snapshot of the entire market every half hour, and have actual historical data back to 1/4/2001. You can move ahead or back in increments of a half hour or entire day at the click of a button. So all I did...

My problem is that I am using eSignal to feed a third party application, OptionVue 5. OptionVue has done all they can to manage the symbol limit, such as allowing you to suspend updates in groups on your Quotes Display and automatically going into the eSignal data Manager to delete all the...

I don't think you could have caught this one early. There was no huge jump in share volume prior to the announcement. Unusual activity in the call options can also tip you off sometimes (because the news leaks out and people buy call options to take advantage of it). VMSI trades very few...

The symbol limit can really kill you are an options trader. You basically have to subscribe tot heir biggest and most expensive package with the most symbols, since just getting quotes on the options on the S&P 500 index (or SPY for that matter) quickly puts you over 500 symbols.

Besides, why would you want to take the chance of buying a (possibly counterfeit) program that will quickly stop working. It is only $49 to order the trial package from OptionVue direct, and then they will walk you through the program heling you learn how to use it...