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What is confusing to me is that there are so many choices. Just for the s&p 500 you can trade options on ES, the index, the ETF, and the big futures contract that I know of. Maybe I missed some. Can anyone explain the advantages and disadvantages of trading each? I'm leaning towards ES since it...

Looks like it will do all of that stuff. I think it will pull historic data from yahoo and it will do volatility surfaces. It will analyze positions and also manage a current portfolio. Just go to the website and poke around a bit.

For that price it's worth a look even if you don't use it. I know I've got more than $70 worth of useless trading books on my shelf. Now I sound like a paid advertiser. But I'm really impressed at what you get for so little money.

Looks like hoadley even downloads from Yahoo,etc. I just bought the program yesterday so I've got a lot to learn. There's stuff in there that I've never even heard of.

One off. You get updates for a year, but the program lasts forever. If you want an update after one year then you have to buy it again. He says that his business model is to sell it cheap and sell lots.

little less academic than Maslov and Zhang. But a similar approach. http://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Stock-Market-Automatically/dp/0451204417/sr=1-1/qid=1162815882/ref=sr_1_1/102-0584608-5772918?ie=UTF8&s=books

Is it possible to trade options afterhours? U.S., European, or Asian? Where? I currently only have an IB account. Thanks.

OK Then what's the best way to trade a simply up move? With the expected decrease in volatility.

If you are not living in the U.S. you could look at the british spreadbetting sites. Some of those allow you to trade very small size with a wide range of instruments.

Thanks MTE. Now I get it.

If all puts and calls on an underlying are related via put-call parity, boxes, and rolls, how can different IV's exist on different strikes and expirations? Why aren't these immediately arbed out?

I'll be the first. You may just be joking, but if not... I don't trade fx, but I can't imagine that it is where they give the money away. If you have so little money to trade with you should wait until you have at least $50k saved. I don't know how you could possibly succeed with less. Then...

Is there any convenient place to check to find out when margin requirments change? I trade both U.S. and overseas futures. I'd like a place I could look and quickly find if margins have recently changed. Thanks

http://www.regisdata.co.uk/tickdata.htm