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T J You sure you are not some kind of retired diplomat?

Stanford The OPEN INTEREST is in TOS. Go to the option chain and then there are a couple of things above it, you can click on to get stuff like DELTA, GAMMA, all the greeks and OPEN INTEREST among other information. It comes up on the first column of the Option Chain. Look at that...

Interestingly enough. I can reopen my same 525 trade and make another .35 cents, but would still be at the same risk and the reward would certainly reduce my loss substantially. However to stick to the formula I need a 2% deviation which is the 530 strike and that is only paying .10 cents...

My calculation based on the POI strategy, puts the nearest top was the 521.75 of the index, to be within the majority OPEN INTEREST. Now the index is retreating again and it does look like the panic opening jump upward might have let my credit spread be okay. Too late now, I closed it when it...

Sheesh! Well I got a LOSS this week. The index broke through the resistance, so I panicked and CLOSED the credit spread. For a total loss after figuring commissions of - $2320. C'est la vie! Now I wish I had stuck to my guns and done it at the 530 strike as originally planned and...

Wow! That Thursday morning opening is scary. With my credit spread at 525 in the OEX. The jump up on the open, canceled any thoughts of doing an Iron Condor. Now I worry about my upper credit spread. It was one strike too close than I wanted at the time. A check of the OPEN INTEREST is...

09-29-10 10:49 PM Quote from falconview: . I know I can do $48,000 to $60,000 with what I have now, gross returns, before paying income tax. _____________________________________ Falconview: Good to read about your abilities. How much risk capital is assumed in...

Stanford Wednesday afternoon I got a fill on an overhead weekly credit spread. Put in a limit order for .20 cents as that was what my TOS option chain was showing on a 20 min. delayed data. Got filled immediately at .35 cents, a whopping amount as far as weekly credit spreads are...

Stanford You don't mind a dormitory, we have lots of bunk beds and two dormitories from when we operated a HOSTEL here. Closed it down. Got too old. I'm surprised you noticed that 6% rise. I was looking at it the other day too. Actually it didn't bother me, as I was trading BULL...

Stanford I'm watching my DEBIT spread this morning and analyzing the possibility of entering the credit spread ( overhead ). I completed legging in the DEBIT SPREAD this morning. Got an entry level of $4.00 and will close it out at $5, if it ever gets there, for 3 contracts...

Stanford This is an open forum. I'm not comfortable discussing those things here. However I have local paperwork okay. You have to pay taxes in the USA with option trading. This country where it is applicable has a tax sharing agreement with the USA. As for investment. I'm not...

Stanford Interesting and you are learning by doing. Good way to learn. You absorb things in the subconcsious that way. You are also on the right track, as you have to make mistakes to learn and refine the nuances of what you need and want, given different market conditions...

Stanford Weekly credit spread Looked at the OEX weekly. Particularly the OEX 530 but no premium available there. It is 10 to 10. The 525 has .30 cents, which sounds nice. Think I'll take a chance and wait it out tomorrow. I have a feeling we re going to see a little upside again...

Stanford You brought a smile to my face, with the comment that your gardener has a gardener. I laughed over that one. Talk about one upmanship. We actually have SEATTLE weather down here this past week. Had a tropical storm pass over us and out into the Pacific, then up to Mexico where...

Stanford I've been taking a nap in my hammock on the verandah and just came back in the door to check on things. In re-reading my scratch paper notes, I cannot decipher what I did with this thing. I have calculations all over the place trying to figure out a spread debit for a three...

Stanford Well yes, but I didn't even pay it any attention. Do not even now, except out of curiousity. This is called NOISE in the market, or FLUTTER! To see these things you require the smaller TIME FRAMES on Big Charts. I have found through experience I cannot get a " tradeable "...

T J I'm not really paying much attention to the index. Just checking in periodically. I have the first leg in on the buy side of my debit spread, but it hasn't moved enough to complete the DEBIT SPREAD and get the SOLD side. I'm trading the DEBIT SPREAD out in NOVEMBER options and they...

TJ I am using a mix of Big Charts and TOS data feeds and option chains. Big charts I can get about a 5 min delay on it, but TOS seems like they are anywhere from 25 min to 30 min delay. Which makes a mess of my trying to do trial experimental trades. Do you use LIVE REAL TIME DATA...

T J I have not received your email at all. Did you have my private email right? Ask Michael, he has it and I believe he has yours.

T J "Selling a 100K EUR/USD (which requires 2K EUR margin) would have made $450 in 7 minutes. In Belize's money, is it 3 week expenses of the high life of Falconview?" My cost of living in Belize is very cheap compared to the USA. Think $600 to $700 a month for an upper middle class...