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There is no silver bullet. If you sell puts and the stock moves very fast very far; then you loose on the potential additional gain if you were instead in stock. On the other hand, if it does a slow grind higher, selling puts is better. The best way is to do both. And stagger in time and...

Nice Lescor. I have been checking for your update every day over the past 10days or so.. totally worth it :) -kcgoogler

also checkout amibroker. Its pretty slick as well.

Hello all, i received the following email from knight (which acquired penson recently - or atleast some accounts at pension) - which clears my thinkorswim futures/margin account. I know it mostly says dont worry.. but really is this something to be worried about? ___ Important...

feel free to. I was just pointing to the fact that your guess was not quite right and i got my answer. No offense. -gariki

Nope. I got the answer i was looking for. Thanks lescor. -gariki

Hello Lescor, another question: how are you making the volume you are making. Not looking for specifics but in general. Whenever i am trying to increase volume to cover my expenses i am getting creamed out. So going back to sticking to the systems. In your case though, you refer sometimes...

Hello Lescor, quick question; simple but just want to make sure.. by total volume you mean thats the number of shares you traded (so in and out of 571k shares (so totalk volume is 571+571k); right.. not in and out of 571k/2 shares). Or do you mean the other way? -gariki

hmm.. by a tad (0.0026 vs 0.0025). But look at volume. I am looking today and looks like 256k shares of SPY traded on NSX while 19million of them traded on BATS.

Yes.

is there a better way to play /NG options on the long side other than selling puts and hoping the time decay will offset for the loss due to rolls. -gariki

Thanks for all the responses folks. And no flashgordon; i luckyly dont have losses for last year :). I recently started trading prop and was just looking for advise or what others do. So i assume most other just go to a tax attorney. How do you find good ones; i once went to a tax attorney...

I am reading up a few threads but thought would start a thread to get people talking. So from what i can tell, for a prop trader who gets a K-1, taxes are pretty straight forward. Its all ordinary income. So taxes are kind of straight forward. Any comments? Losses: If you have losses in...

its strange how coincidentally with this post of mine; something got screwed on the chrome end and i (and other on message boards i have seen) started seeing complete system hangups when using chrome - for apparently browsing googles own sites (someone says it google+ but i am not sure) -...

Try tos (thinkorswim.com) and see if it suits you; their backtesting interface is pretty good FWIW. -gariki

Eric, if you dont mind sharing got a few questions (one of the prev posters has these questions also): 1. do you trade prop or a retail account? (if retail - i bet you use PM) 2. who is your broker and what software you use for this level of trading 3. for your automation what software...

For answers to every one of your questions you dont need to read past the last few posts on this thread :) ps: i guess you already know that. eh.. good one.

Most of the additives are put in food for a commercial reason; somehow or other it adds up to the bottom line of corporations making that food - be it increased shelf life of items, increased dependence of consumers on that particular food item etc etc. -gariki

Mav, i will tell you why they think as such. Because Don is out there on every single ET thread where folks are looking for prop firms putting out an ad for his firm competing against all the rest of the firms providing 25, 30 to 1 leverage. Not just bad shops; i know for sure atleast a couple...

ok. so you being the papa bear and protecting everyone else. See if you got your risk control in place right, there is no reason for the benefecial bear to save every little bear from tearing themselves apart as long as they are within their capital contribution limits - you can be more...