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I will do that. Thanks for the heads-up. Any particular thread you recommend? However, when he is factually incorrect, as he has been in this thread, I will still call it out. I expect no less from those who read my posts.

1. My concern here is providing false information, especially to the naive. I am a teacher and providing false information is toxic and worthy of an insistent response. 2. Blackjack, played by simple "best practice" rules without card counting is mathematically provable to have a positive...

Yep! Thanks for providing the link.

Skew is a fact of life in many options environments. Rale against it or exploit it, it's your choice. I do not put on an iron condor as one trade. Rather, I put it on as two credit spreads. The distance from the current price of the underlying is controlled by the probability of touching the...

I can't say I'm really frustrated about trading. I find it fun and exhilarating. Give me the rules of any game and I can usually figure out if there is an edge and how to exploit it. If rules and regulations change it's a new game. If you are agile, you get to the edge before others and have...

You are right big time. Team leaders and/or project managers that have the respect and confidence of both the users and the programmers are a rarity and many times unappreciated by upper management. Yet their projects are more likely to come in on time and under budget and most important...

What's the symbol. I'd like to take a look at the options chain as of the day of your original post.

What are your expectations?

1. You might want to acquaint yourself with the Socratic method. I am an engineer and a teacher and I use questions to stimulate dialog to help discover truth. I do not apologize if this makes some uncomfortable. Learning and truth are more important. 2. There are few bets available in a...

Thank you. Insane Money Oops. I counted wrong in my password vault. I found candidates by searching for forums addressing credit spreads and iron condors. Other suggestions would be welcome.

Not exotic from a trading point of view. I don't trade every day. However I use a treadmill desk. Whenever I'm at my desk, I'm walking at 1 mph to preserve coordination for keyboarding, mousing and writing.

I'm currently on four trading related forums. It's not just the content. Each forum has its own personality. It's like visiting a neighborhood. In some neighborhoods I lock my doors and continuous scan for danger. In others I have my windows down smile and wave to people and they smile and wave...

Relative to what?

Post your requirements on elance.com. You will get lots of bids from all over the world and can see the kind of volume they do and an evaluation of their work.

Several trading platforms do this. I use ThinkOrSwim. When I'm teaching and I want to illustrate a point where the P/L graph would be helpful, it is easy to add proposed positions and see the effect on the graph. Also, early on in my options education, I would use the graphics to make sure...

In spite of the fact that I am a retired software engineer and an automation specialist, I am not a black-box trader. I believe in automation only to the extent of "decision support" and execution. I've experimented with adaptive systems where the rules try to adapt to a changing environment...

The Gambler's Ruin Theorem (a mathematical proof) illustrates that even with a positive expectation, sizing your bets is critical to achieving my favorite adage. "You must survive to thrive."

When I reference something outside the current thread, whether in the same forum or somewhere else on the internet, I provide a link. I don't know what thread you are talking about, so perhaps you would take a moment to provide a link for all of us. All of us have different amounts of...

Make the case. A statement without explanation lacks credibility.

If you were being facetious, forgive my misreading this. However, if this is a serious question, the market is not generally a zero-sum game. If the value of a trading instrument falls, all who own it have lost on paper. No-one else gained anything. Likewise, if the trading instrument gains...