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Sorry GC, but I still don't see how placing an open and a close order separately can save you time from only click in an interface like Buttontrader that does both, and gives you a stop as a bonus. And modifying any of these three will take only 1 click too. You don't want the fancy stuff than...

Then why not skip the 1st trade altogether? Your loss-reduce would be a winner then. If you have a significant probability in your backtests that, as you said "Once it goes in 1 direction a certain number of ticks..the momo is likely to continue at least enough to allow you to reduce ur loss"...

Please god let the markets open again soon, so we can open the fences and set free these quarreling monkeys.

Take a look at short calendar- or time-spreads. Ursa..

Why do you think that your second trade, the one opened after the first lost 2 points, will be a winner? It just as likely will be a loser too. If not, you'd better switch you first and second trade. Ursa..

All addictions end in tears :(

What does this mean? How can anyone sue OPEC? What legal platform and what penalties? Who's the judge? Is there any substance in this, or just windowdressing? Anyway, sounds a bit like a drug-addict trying to sue his snow-supplier for tightening supply and raising prices. Long before court is...

You still haven't explained how and why rolling futures would cause a downdraft. Do you even read your own threads, or did u stop doing that (for obvious reasons)? Ursa..

I find that hard to believe. Although TWS Booktrader is better than it used to be and it is possible to enter bracket trades with it, I would never be able to trade as comfortable and safe with it as with Buttontrader. Unless you enter your trade without ever modifying it I think a serious...

R u blind? "After the first four tosses the results are no longer unknown, so they do not count. The probability of five consecutive heads is the same as four successive heads followed by one tails." READ!

Okay. that must have been a glitch then. Or maybe the coupling is correct for mainstream indexes like DJI and SP and not for Dutch EOE/FTA options that I use mainly. I'll inspect again later. Thanks for replying. Ursa..

I what way does this keep costs down? It is just a frontend, like QT (= quotetraCKer) and Sierra. The data you see is as good as the data provider you choose behind it. Maybe I missed something? Ursa..

Hi A, :p , I never came around to properly inspect that feature, as I use homebuilt spreadsheets to calc the IV. But my first impressions were that for index-options they use the current index-value to evaluatie the greeks. This gives skewed results because the actual pricing is based on...

Exactly, he lost in me in that first sentence already. Joe, please explain, how do you minimize risk by holding a position for a longer time period? I would say the exact opposite. Ursa..

Good to hear they are that alert. Even a product like Buttontrader, which costs much less has immediate services http://www.buttontrader.com/index.asp?lang=en&page=18 I hope they can solve it for you within the next few hours. This shouldn't happen and if it does shouldn't last long. Not for...

Thanks for that info, will take a look at it. Good to know a fellow logitech mouseman user :). I never understood why Logitech discontinued them. Ursa..

I don't understand this sentence. From the subjectline I suppose you mean the delta. The options themselves asymptotically approach max(strike-exp-value, 0). The delta's will become 1 and 0 resp. Ursa..

So, where are your stops?

It can't be stopped. It's like stopping a river flowing or the sun from rising. The slowness is part of the 'business-model'. Unlike the M$ business model, that wants as much profit as quickly as possible, regardless of what customers need, this is autonomous, based on real needs. M$ puts...

What is it to you? What are you afraid of? Ursa..