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10 JAN 2010 Trading Plan The Dashboard above informs me as follows: Opportunity - Takeoffs are optional Spread #61 is unpaired. Opportunity to form an Iron Condor Spread #64 is at 85% of it's potential profit. Opportunity to roll. Spread #55 is at 80% of it's potential profit...

This is your first post so I will be gentle. This does not show a useful understanding of what the unemployment statistics mean.

Trading credit spreads has the potential to provide high return (5%+) per spread, high probability of success (90%+), but when they lose, the have the ability to wipe out several months profit. Management of the spreads becomes critical in reducing the impact of these inevitable losses. If...

When I place a limit order with my broker I get my price or better. For multiple option spreads I have seen partial fills with different leg prices but the credit I required. I have also seen multiple fills with different credits at my limit or better. Partial fills can also be from different...

Trading Index Options Credits Spreads enhanced by creating Iron Condors when market conditions permit. I've started a journal in ET. I'm a bit behind in posting trades and explaining methods. HowardCohodas Index Options Credit Spread Trading Journal

And they are?

Whether it is profit per trade, percentage of profitable trades or commissions per trade, I am always working to improve my performance.

The best way to hide something is to hide it in plain sight. One account among tens of thousands is unlikely to generate much interest. Even if you are unusually successful, what it the probability that yours is near enough the top to get their attention? And even if it did, so what? What have...

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Trading costs eat up about 6.5% of my returns. I still look for ways to reduce it.

It's important to understand when to use them as well as what they are. This is just my example. When I trade credit spreads, I always enter with a limit order. If my spread loses more than my stop and I "must" exit, I use a market order.

My experience outside the financial markets is that rigging is sometimes hard to detect. Once detected, however, it is usually easy to derive a strategy to exploit it. My experience with the financial markets is insufficient for me to know how difficult rigging is to detect and how easy it is...

What is it that I wrote that would lead you to believe that I hold a contrary view?

The ToS platform has several charting environments each developed by a different supplier. Which charting environment were you using?

Rigged games and unrigged games have weaknesses that can be exploited, just differently. Rigging can be obvious or hard to detect. Why should the financial markets be materially different?

I admit to being an amateur at many things. But I'm usually pretty good at understanding the rules of a game, identifying its weaknesses and exploiting them. And I frequently beat professionals at their game, even when they cheat. It's especially gratifying when they are arrogant. Whether I...

Without arguing the point of whether it is wise, it is none-the-less interesting that there are huge amounts of money being spent on cutting microseconds from the communications path. Not only in co-locating, but in a new undersea cable.

Not in my area and I live in a pretty good neighborhood.

It's been a while since I was intimate with this field so my memory could be faulty. However, I don't believe the fitness function had to be monotonic with proper gene pool management. GA's lack of fitness for pattern recognition is beyond my recollection.

I don't think it matters. Whatever the rules of the game governed by the big boys, the clever among us will find a way to take profits.