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"OMG." I had to see it to believe it. (And now I've seen it.) Wow. I can't even muster a reply to the guy. Color me :D:rolleyes:.....

My long-held* understanding matches yours. *But hell, there's so much unspoken esoterica out there, and by the time you decide to memorize it, a little-covered press release from The Powers That Be has changed all the rules, aaaaaaaaa-again.

THAT IS GROSS! I am a recovering audiophile, amongst other claims, and used to make/sell my own hoighty-toighty cables. And I'll tell you that cables/connections make a HUGE difference. Their local node might be giving you 75Mbps right now, and you'd never know it cuz of all the leakage in the...

Two necessaries in starting a fund -- 1) as mentioned above, a fine-ass record. (Or, the promise of a reasonable expectation of sometimes a profitable period of some indeterminable duration...) 2) depending on your local jurisdiction: http://www.ebay.com/bhp/series-65-exam Snag one of those 65...

Dude! You need to rattle somebody's cage. After 5?? years of pretty steady performance that SO outshined AT&T DSL before them, Bright House (now owned by Spectrum) gave *crap* performance every 3-4 days, between 3pm-5pm ET. As you can imagine, that was not cool. Bright House denied any node- or...

Not to be a pill or anything, but have you confirmed the source of the freeze? You haven't mentioned anything. For myself, I bring up Task Manager multiple times a day, to monitor what programs are consuming what resources; I bring up these guys http://www.speedtest.net/ probably once a week --...

http://www.optionseducation.org/documents/literature/files/understanding-profit-loss-graphs.pdf You need to draw this out. ASAP.

Just as a warning, but usually the first person to distinguish "economic" from "accounting" profit is going to have the best argument. Jus...... jus... jus sayin'.......

I don't think any of us wanted to go there. Hooo boy. Without putting any thought into it, "Sell a nearby put and roll that puppy forward, nibbling away with put premium til you're out" comes to mind.....

Oh, it's got a pulse, alright! I've got a big analysis spreadsheet to which I off-load data, run it around a bit, and out pops the trading tools that allow me to look out at a broad market, with a single sheet of paper. Yay, me. But that spreadsheet data has been, in the last two weeks...

[LOL] Ain't that the truth! You guys that "scalp" in trades that go multiple hours?!? Sheeeee-it! After an hour, I used to call myself "an investor." I just could not (*can*not) even *conceive* of trading like that. I'd blow lunch first, and then the account. No doubt. {Burp.}

Plant a butterfly on top of it. -- Minimal cost. -- LOTS of flexibility afforded. Sell it off or build it out as your (further, calmed, clarified) mind dictates. But remember -- as an option seller, the battle you face is δ + v ≈ Θ and when δ and/or v ≥ than that oh-so-reliable tick...

If you're work ethic demands you trade, but your eyeballs tell you that conditions stink, then you've got a conflict. An ATR on-screen can help resolve that conflict, as an empirical, historically-based, totally objective, non-brain-burdening tool. I HATE sitting on my hands. But with an ATR...

CNBC website -- free, available anywhere, *and* always has news. Nearly _nothing_ to learn. Takes 5 minutes to be up&running. I used it for several college classes, among students with no computer or econ/finance knowledge. A hoot to see the lights go on.....

Back when I was a tick-scalper (like you, ending up in ES as a bread&butter deal), I used an ATR with two look-backs [or, more accurately, *two* ATRs....], and just learned to sit-on-hands when things got near 0.50 on a 1-minute chart. Actually learned to take Lunch that way. And afforded myself...

Sure as 'ell beats entering on an 18-tick greenie..... "Well! Ain't you a talllll drink o' water!"

What should newbs focus on? 1) KEEP YOUR CAPITAL. Until you understand "One-third down is half-way back," do not trade. 2) THE MARKET IS REALITY. Look at the overlay your culture/sociological niche provides: is it as THIN as you can divine? The market cares not, what kind of car you drive...

Topping markets suck for selling top-side options, don't they? The BWB is *very* hard to write then, because there is basically nothing close in, and only really lean stuff farther and farther out. (A BWB in the SPX/ES will move you ~3 strikes closer to the market, for the same premium and/or...

There is nothing either esoteric or limiting about IB's calculation of historic volatility. Volatility *is* a single standard deviation. What is commonly conflated is that volatility is stock price movement computed in percentage-change terms, instead of price-change terms. But this is only...