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In unique circumstances when a stock gets halted for a long time, what happens to options positions when they expire while stock is halted?

If you have a proven, successfully tested edge, the only restrictions that one should be concerned with is liquidity with respect to the time frame which your edge applies and a sound money management system. If your system is designed to scalp a few points at a time, trading a couple...

Def, is it possible to tweak things so that after you cancel or transmit an order, that the highlighted cell goes back to the contract row instead of remaining on cell below?

I currently have this problem as well, but it doesnt seem to go away. Next window keeps opening up about 1/4 size.

Sounds great, now all you need to do is to define an edge and you're good to go! :) Seriously though, does the strategy you are applying necessitate that you trade 100 times/day? Paying 10% of equity per day in commissions seems like an awfully tough hill to climb. I think you need to...

For a trader just starting out, it won't really matter how much you have, you will most likely blow out at least once. Conversely, a talented trader can take practically any amount and compound it enormously. How much you have to begin with in your account doesn't really mean much at all in...

Everybody gets what they want out of the market.

Sry for confusion, I guess I mistitled this thread -- should have been "War = red herring?"

By no means is this thread prompted by CNBC; "war trade" was just an easy reference. The trends in all those markets mentioned have been on the surface motivated by the imminent or not so imminent resolution of Iraq, yet I am wondering whether the unwinding of this trade, if the resolution...

Just wanted opinions on the "war trade" (long oil, long bonds, long gold, short stocks, short dollar) that CNBC keeps squawking about: how many of you think that the "war" is truly the driver behind this trade, and that once the war is resolved quickly or even averted, that these trends will...

One less loser now . . .

I think if you can take the pain down to 970 or so on the NDX you should be fine, but it seems like they'll want to at least take out the stops on last week's lows before INTC's update on thurs -- hopefully the tide turns big time after that!

I think the ideal attitude is not to think about any ratios at all, but to maintain strict discipline on the losing trades, while leaving the winning trades open-ended. Just because you set tight 1 or 2pt stops on your NQ losers doesn't mean you should "deserve" six points at best -- if the...

Doesn't anyone smell something fishy with this market today? VIX still negative, dollar getting crushed, 10yr keeps pushing new highs . . . maybe im just being paranoid??

Haven't you guys learned that posting your calls as a thread title = baaaad karma? :)

What's up with 10-yr, dollar today? With crude down? Something else on the radar that ppl aren't looking at presently?

Understanding motives is key for anyone trying to figure out how anything works in the realm of buying and selling; for example, what is the motive for anyone with a position to reveal his or her sentiment, when he is already long or short? What is the motive for that brokerage to recommend to...

Hehe, what do you expect when you put "easy" in the title of your thread? :) Perhaps here's the logic for some of the hostility and derision you seem to be attracting: if you're actually clever enough to devise a "system" that makes trading easy, you ought to be clever enough to keep it to...

I would think that for the vast majority of individual traders, averaging down is the leading cause of blowing out one's account. To eliminate this strategy (perhaps a better word is "habit") seems well worth it even if it means giving up some big gains. I look at it this way: for the...

Uh oh . . . :( :eek: :D