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"The neat thing about bull put spreads is that traders who are not qualified or do not have the available trading capital to sell naked puts are able to accomplish this with less risk by just adding an insurance policy (buying puts). " ---- She forgot to mention that if eBay dropped below...

Another word, you may not use stop loss orders because hitting a stop loss would leave you with a naked short call. :eek: IMO, your broker is unsuitable for a CC strategy.

An auto liquidation could be triggered by something as mundane as typing an extra zero in the quantity column while placing an order in a hurry. I like IB, and have several accounts with them, but until they fix their auto-liquidation algorithm I am going to limit my positions to one leg per...

Paper trading profits are meaningless. Open an account with Interactive Brokers and try swing trading 100 shares of SPY, a good proxy for ES, and see if you can consistently make money.

It is time for Dick Cheney to come clean before the American people about his high school drinking.

If you take this approach, you will not have much to extract from your account, so you might as well let it compound.

OK. The code that calculates margin requirements is smart enough to aggregate legs into positions. The automatic liquidation code, it appears, views one's account as an collection of unrelated legs. When it gets control, it randomly liquidates one or more legs and, in all likelihood...

If so, perhaps you could explain why the program liquidated the last out of 200+ positions. Was that because prior liquidations widened the box 200-fold, :or because the account value dropped below $20 (assuming a 10-point box)?

This would explain why the Democrats seized harping on Bush's motives behind the Iraq war.

Because a system's performance is fairly predictable (read, limited), it stands to reason that discretionary traders can generate higher rates of return.

If this were true, CNN would still dominate the ratings as it once was, not getting its ass kicked by Fox News. The libs chose to destroy CNN's credibility, and ratings, by turning it into a Democrats' propaganda outlet rather then provide balanced news coverage.

All one needs to enter the room is to cut an employee open. Ain't technology wonderful?

No good deed goes unpunished. They should have shot grenade throwing punks dead.

The libs must be getting really desperate if they have to resort to junk science in an attempt to explain their falures at the ballot box.

I do not know about 1000% yearly returns, but I do know that it often takes the market several days to discount a big surprise (c.f. GOOG). One who, withoiut the benefit of hindsight, can tell a big surprise from CNBC hype can make a lot of money by way of leverage.

The only thing missing is a performance record. :confused:

All these based on what?

IB's customer service has its problems, but so do others, you just do not hear about them.

While initial liquidations may indeed increase the box value and trigger additional liquidations, liquidations would cause the gpv/netliq ration to drop below the 50:1 threshold well before the entire position is liquidated. It looks like the automatic liquidation program checks the gpv only...

But of course meeting with Abramoff was against the law. Abramoff Team and Bush's Office Had Frequent Contact, Records Show :D