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I used some formal education in trading spreads rather than extensive experience to get over this hurdle.

Volume is important from two perspectives. First, you must understand how your strategy depends on volume for success. Does the trading instrument have sufficient volume to get the fills your require. Many "scans" looking for opportunities for a given strategy produce "high return" candidates...

Wait. Wait. I resemble that remark.

I don't know if TDA still has different rules than TOS, The last time I checked, they still had different "new customer" processes and your account was assigned to the organization you signed up with. The level of trading privileges they assign is their interpretation of the legal...

I've not yet experienced that problem. I only trade where there is large open interest and good daily volume. I've only had to bale three or four times in 11 weeks of trading with TOS with a market order and got good prices each time. The rest of the time, I either got my limit price or passed...

I'm a huge fan of Iron Condors. They are all I currently trade. I'm comfortable with the 109/110 spread, but the 122/123 is way to scary for me. I trade each spread side separately and never concern myself about the leg prices, just the credit. That way I don't have to wait as long for a...

There are lots of things I would not do just to live longer. It's an age old debate of quantity vs. quality. Were you to offer both, well then I might have to take a second look.

Thanks for the belly laugh.

Agreed Agreed My bad. I confused the poster with someone else. I'll apologize personally in a PM. Your opinion is not as valid as mine here. And so it goes.

If you diligently kept to the same rules, then fear has nothing to do with it. You need a better system. If you did not stick to your rules than it's either fear or hubris. If you don't identify and conquer what's holding you back, I would be concerned about your ability to become a...

You must consider one other possibility. Your marketing may be inadequate. Your are trying to get someone to "buy" your services. You may not be getting as many responses as you deserve because they are not getting your audiences attention. I strongly recommend that you have your resume and...

I use ThinkBack all the time. I thought you were referring to something else. Thanks anyway.

Charge them a yearly subscription fee to be paid directly rather than from the investment account with, what I'm assuming is, comingled funds. Figure out your yearly costs and apportion it equally or proportionally to their investment. If they are unwilling to cover your costs then I...

Spot on!

If there is nothing useful here, why would you waste your time writing over 11 thousand posts? I don't get it.

If you don't know how to exploit the market as it is, not as you wish it to be, then why are you here? There are lots of people who are successful in spite of all the criticism on this thread. Many on this forum. Read more. Complain less.

If you believe the game is rigged, get over it and exploit it to your advantage. Complaining is a waste of energy better devoted to developing exploits and making money.

That's an interesting point and I have had many discussions with my wife regarding how charity is delivered in this country and how there is an infinite demand for a free resource. We are polar oposites on some subjects. None-the-less, the point of this thread is how to get people with money...

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95% of success in selling is attitude. And you are selling yourself when you apply for a job. Envisioning yourself being successful at the job will do wonders for your interview. You can always turn it down if you find you don't like the location. More importantly, it gives you experience at...