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In the mornin you go gunnin' for the man who stole your water and you fire till he is done in but they catch you at the border and the mourners are all singin' as they drag you by your feet but the hangman isn't hangin' and they put you on the street You go back Jack do it again wheel...

The expression on Tim Salmon's face was priceless...When he said it was the furthest he had ever seen after 13 years(??) with the Angels that is saying something...What more can be said about Bonds...love em or hate em, the guy hits anything and everything that is over the plate...amazing!!!!

I am pretty sure you could just add another Matrox G450 PCI card. I am sure you have a number of PCI slots available...And since you already are running the drivers for the AGP slot, that should not be an issue either...

If you ever really do develop any insights about options trading in one, two or three years from now, you are going to find some of these posts that you just wrote and laugh at them (or even worse-cringe)...Somehow you imagine that you have developed some form of "insight" into options trading...

Trade as small as you can...Think of the market in terms of ranges as opposed to ticks...Isolate yourself from the "peer pressure" of needing to generate tons of volume or trade "size"...

IMO, your focus on the depth of the market appears to be inconsistent with your overall reliance on "raw price action". After all, how reliable is the depth of the market when a large majority of the bids and offers on the mini are simply arbitrageurs trying to hit the bids and offers...

I think its pretty entertaining, but I dont see a tremendous amount of insight there. I am sure he has the insights and I can tell from the way he gives his readers glimpses of what he is seeing, but honestly I think it is pretty watered down to cater to a pretty unsophisticated audience...Dont...

Since when is 25 considered to be a kid?

Spreads on a stock like IBM are minimal...

I think most of us would agree that it is "fishy"...As I outlined in another post a few of the possible causes, I also feel that seasonally this is just as volatile a time as can be expected...Somehow, I often really forget the effect that these earnings announcements can have on the markets...

Do yourself one favor, and try to avoid options expirations as a beginner...In past years, you had better "runs" into expirations...1999 comes to mind as a year that had cleaner action...Same thing with 2000...But nowadays, in this bear market condition, options expirations(especially the Thurs...

First, there are no trading programs hitting the market left and right, as has become the norm in the index futures over this past year... Second, its expiration week and alot of market makers, institutions, etc have alot of gamma exposure from their options positions...As the market moves x...

Sabena informed us that he still is waiting for the es to "mature" into a more liquid market because he does not think it can accomodate his trading size yet...:p

***************** LOL...excellent idea...If I remember correctly, the Army did extensive testing on LSD some 50 years ago and actually dosed many of the soldiers at that time to discern the psychological changes and how it would enhance or diminish their cognitive skills...Somehow it made its...

yeah, I leg into the spreads and I scale into the spreads...I also vary the ratio of the spreads...I guess that does sound pretty confusing...

Another point I wanted to make about "credit spreads"...I used to trade these things when I first got started in options...FIrst of all, if you are going to trade the OEX, SPX, etc, etc with these spreads, you can really only do these on the call side due to the vol skew...On the put side, you...

In all honesty, you are not going to be qualified by IB to open the credit side first or trade one wing "naked"...Maybe, if you are trading 10 strikes OTM you could do this, but I still doubt it...Since the Crash of 1987, margins on the OEX have been enormous...If you have an account with them...

It sounds to me like he ripped off Tactrade

Pabst: I assume you want to set up an LLC in any state except for Illinois...When I looked into it at one time, I realized that Illinois has the highest LLC start up fees and maintenance costs of any other state in the country...Probably because of all the trading firms and independent...

you can actually learn all u want to know about stats and probabilities by going to Borders and buying one of those books that summarizes stats and prob theory...Then go into MS Excel and plug in numbers and chart them using the stats functions...It is much easier to understand the concepts once...