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In europe lots of options are allready quoted in pennies. doesn't mean you have a penny spread, but sometimes things come close.

the closest i know of what you are asking for is in "Option volatility and pricing" by Sheldon Natenberg

if 1% a day is not hard to achieve, then tell me why most hedgefunds are satisfied if they get over 20% return at the end of the year ? ? ?

there is a simple solution to your so called problem: switch brokers ... btw: the work and the effort, not to mention the capital needed, to actively hedge all the different kind of underlyings and strikes would be enormous.

so this broker has sold 5000 options ? What about the risk involved ? You really are getting paranoid :eek:

risk at most 2% of your portfolio on any trade ... some people say only 1% ...

Rest assured it's not the MM, they think in terms of volatility and the spread, selling the bid would be losing money for them and accomplishing nothing.

it won't be the specialist or mm, they are not in the business of giving away money, neither will it be the broker, they are not responsible for the execution. You're getting paranoid :) Execution follows a very strict proces depending on the rules of the market in question. Normally execetion...

Don't really think so, German bunds seem more liquid to me ...

you haven't got the slightest idea what you are talking about. If a new bull market resumes in the US this strategy is going to kill you big time. If you try it with puts you won't even have to readjust at all if the market crashes. Just imagine you applied this strategy in 1999 and 2000 on...

papertrading is as good as the real thing, demo sucks all the way

there is a difference between the demo account and the papertrading account, both are far from the same.

with such spreads, you must be nuts ... use search and get wiser ...

daytrading options is a relative term, (you always have some position left when you trade them) i'm talking about guys that i knew who worked on the floor, and if you call a few years of trading long ... the options traders in general did much better on the floor then the futures traders, most...

you don't know shit, i know much much more option traders that became millionares and kept there money then futures traders who did. Several of them are still doing great after years of trading ... All the futurestraders i know who made great money daytrading in the nineties have almost all...

you might consider on becoming a member with that kind of volume

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english is my third language but that's not an excuse to behave like a moron ... calling fraud is not some small allegation in any language, even with a question mark behind it ...

what's most of all ridiculous is that you have no sense of decency: you start calling FRAUD before anything even has happened ...

the mini-future is "only" 62500 usd