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I rarely have any, but this week I took a couple of rubbish trades that I knew had small prospect of winning but the bigger picture is that I am consistently profitable very month so I can have these crappy trades to appease my 'boredom factor'. When they do pay of they compensate for the losses...

Nope- went very badly for me-calmly accepted losses -now I trade differently.

Quit IB some years ago- horrible platform but I may return for long only trades

No risk of early exercise, cash settled, monthly expiries, surprises are very rare and my strategy can handle a 10% drop. As the whole world mostly trades market trackers, indexes are always liquid.

I once asked a pension fund manager what sort of idiot buys at a new high. "Pension funds", he said. For mature stocks this makes no sense. But they don't need to make sense-they just have more money fed in every month

Cannot understand why peoplebother with forex and stocks-for excitement go buy a motorbike, for trading, use index options. Why put yourself in the bearpit when you can trade on the level playing field?

Nope- cannot trade UK stuff on US platforms

Zero chance of Treasure Island( UK) getting free comms- we get smashed to bits by prices of everything from shirts to sheds.

Thomas Cook bought a rival which had more debt than they could handle-lack of due diligence by the usual suspects -M&A teams should be shot mostly. A trusted brand that could have been thriving.

But the MPs voted 4 to 1 to leave! It's enshrined in law- it's their shit and they are incapable of doing a deal

NEVER trade options in isolation but you can be long options and mitigate theta -it's not a play for Micky Mouse traders

NOBODY sells naked equity options - except the institutions we bailed out

index options-everything else is rubbish!

Saved my life: Van Tharp " we trade our BELIEFS in the market" I'm never disappointed as I know my estimation is not fact or truth. I rarely lose these days....... what iceberg?

http://optionsinvesting.co.uk my humble site

Thanks SIg but I think you'll find most banking institutions cross collateralise and are thus engaged in all 3 activities. FYI in the long run, banks, despite getting their product for free, barely make money. Who is the pontificating idiot here? The smug institutions, propped up by my taxes...

If you are basinf the win rate on margin then 10% of margin is terrific- for me the max is about 40%of my total account though I'm told I should trade bigger. http://optionsinvesting.co.uk/trade145-week-ending-16-august-dont-panic/?fbclid=IwAR2HYIvPoYCTeVtj8ROu_Pp9Ekp185v6VHZHF0x6dlu5k5wCtcTBjnTCyYI

Ironchef you are not a beginner. Hope my site makes things simple http://optionsinvesting.co.uk/trade145-week-ending-16-august-dont-panic/?fbclid=IwAR2HYIvPoYCTeVtj8ROu_Pp9Ekp185v6VHZHF0x6dlu5k5wCtcTBjnTCyYI

We love stats- we love options

There is nothing they do that requires a phD - in fact brains in finance can be postively dangerous - LTCM for example. Banks make money from deposits and trade on margin. They were caught with their pants down in 2008. I made money, they lost an unacceptable amount, and they are still in debt...