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Hey Mr. Doppelganger: The ebook was sent to me by a trading friend. I would be glad to send it to you. I have sent you an email using Elite Trader. I used to day trade the emini S&P, symbol ES. When the VIX went into the 80’s, I moved to the electronic 30 year U.S. bond, symbol ZB...

Hi Jimmy s. Btw, my first name is Jim and my last name starts with a S. Weird, huh? I recently read an ebook on tape reading by Wycoff. Based on that, I am looking for something that will help me decide if there is pressure for the next bar to go up or down. Maybe a DOM analysis tool...

I asked a similar question under this Trading Software heading on 04-02-09. The subheading was “Software Used to Trade Jack Hershey Methods.” My question is on the last page. So far, there have been no answers. I also have spoken to a local guy who was going to look at the question...

RS of Houston Inc is presenting a free three part webinar on the income tax aspects of trading. The first part is tomorrow at 4:30 PT (Pacific Time). Register at http://www.tradersaccounting.com/product.php?productid=16298&cat=262&page=1

I have no personal gain in this. However, I recommend buying the book “Capital Gains” at http://www.fairmark.com/books/cgmt.htm. The author is a Harvard trained tax lawyer. Part V: Taxation of Traders should answer your questions.

In his first post on page 2 of this thread, Tums presented an Excel spreadsheet attachment for IB showing the various characteristics of a DOM. (The date and time of the first post was 06-26-07 05:37 PM). I have been unable to get the attachment to work. This is probably because of updates...

JohnGreen - Thanks for the reply.

Are you saying that an IC has a negative expectancy at the time that it is established? If both the sold calls and puts are say at least one standard deviation out combined with the likelihood that at least one side should be profitable and reduce any loss, is the expectancy at the time the...

I still use my HP 940C from 6 years ago. It has big ink cartridges. Remanufactured cartridges are $5 for black and $12 or so for color at Amazon. I recently bought another 940C on EBay for $1 plus $20 for delivery. (A little caution though as if the printer bought on EBay doesn't work, the...

I had the same problem with a program that wouldn't install. I went to Google and found a solution from Microsoft. It involved deleting a registry file. I must have done something wrong because my computer wouldn't start after that. My computer guy wasn't able to fix my computer without a...

See the book Capital Gains at http://www.fairmark.com/books/cgmt.htm Part V: Taxation of Traders is the relevant section. The author is a Harvard Trained Tax attorney.

Thanks for the good advice, Mark. Instinctively, IC’s are attractive to me because I like the idea of selling options rather than buying and I like having an insurance call or put so the position is not naked. Also, only one side should lose so the winning side should help the other side if...

Dagnyt – I liked your article. However, the article that I was thinking about was in the November, 2008 issue of SFO Magazine. http://www.sfomag.com/BackIssues/backissue.aspx?ID=91 It is titled “Dan Harvey – The Supertrader of Index Options”. Two points from that article are as...

Dagnyt – I notice that you wrote an article on Iron Condors for the December, 2008 edition of SFO Magazine. That was the article that I referred to in my first post. on this subject. I will order a copy of that article. I am impressed.

I do not want to be negative, jwcapital but while browsing the internet, I came across an article at http://www.ironcondoroptiontradingstrategy.com/iron-condor/iron-condor that reminded me, rightly or wrongly, why I decided not to pursue IC’s. They have a high probability of success but...

The movement in the market in worked very well. You were able to close the bear call spread for very little. If you held, you could also have closed the puts for very little. What I don’t understand from your post is did you after closing the calls, then write another call spread? In...

Most of the time, the S&P futures, symbol ES, and the 30 year bond futures, symbol ZB, move in opposite directions. However, there are times, such as this afternoon, when both ES and ZB move in the same direction. I would appreciate it if anyone who trades bond futures, on an intraday...

I was a tax accountant in a large accounting firm in Canada eons ago. My comments might be out of date. At the time, private corporations got the small business deduction on active business income earned in Canada. The small business deduction lowered the approximately 50% federal tax rate to...

Reject of price – price moving up Situation one: A bar moves up to a price level and closes at or just below the price level. The next bar closes down at its low. At least for now, the market has rejected the price level. Situation two: A bar opens below a price level, moves up to...

Has anyone tried hypnotism to help overcome the fear of pulling the trigger on a trade? I am aware that that the accepted way to overcome fear of entering a trade is to have confidence in your plan, trade with small positions initially and keep going until the fear is under control. I am...