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I was using it to store work in progress while moving among 3 different computers. It was handier than using a thumb drive once it was set up.

I knew a guy that did collars on highly volatile stocks for the sole purpose of accumulating a large position. As long as the stock was actually jerking up and down frequently he was able to keep selling his puts at a profit, but another 100 shares with the profit and do it again. The biggest...

it's possible to programmatically download option chains and delayed snapshots from cboe.com though it would be a violation of their TOS.

I stopped using Dropbox when I realized they were looking at what I was uploading and sending me targeted spam emails from it. (No, it wasn't porn.) Security-minded users like myself have fled Dropbox to open source alternatives like Syncthing.

Well I can tell you I do broken wing butterflies on index options as my main trade but that's not much help. :D The secrets lie in how many days to expiry, how far OTM, how wide, what greeks look best. And that's just for entry. Managing the trade, knowing when/how to adjust comes with experience.

I thought scalping eminis and forex suited my personality but I just couldn't make money doing it. I ended up settling on options trading and making money for a change. It turned out that the slower pace and analytical aspects of options was better suited to my personality.

I don't know how old you are but you'll inevitably be slowed down by cumulative injuries as you age. I'm pushing 60 and still able to run regularly, backpack etc. but I'm definitely feeling it now. I was lucky to be a 90 lb weakling when I was young since it prevented me from destroying my...

I use fxTrade on both Windows and Linux platforms without problems. I've occasionally run into problems with the launcher being out of date. All I had to do was download the latest launcher and it ran again. I used to use MT4 and as I recall you don't get the same bid/ask spread on MT4 as you...

Here's the holy grail you've been looking for: Day Trading With Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout by Toby Crabel

That's why you need to maintain anonymity in the transaction as well. I wouldn't used BTC for face to face business, I'd use USD greenbacks.

You're assuming BTC/USD conversions can only happen on exchanges.

That's why I don't trade BTC and I hold my own wallet instead of depending on Coinbase etc to hold it for me.

I hate pay-walled sites. Alternative: http://news.morningstar.com/all/dow-jones/us-markets/201703276250/irs-crackdown-on-bitcoin-exchange-fuels-privacy-worries.aspx

Next support level for SPX is 2300, 1% down from here.

Actually that $1000/month figure is from about 6 years ago, but you're right that singles pay the lowest premiums.

If you're a professional in some field there's usually a professional society you can join to get group rates on all sorts of insurance. e.g. I'm an electrical engineer and I've belonged to IEEE for years. I have cheap life insurance through them and I know they have health insurance options as...

What's "expensive" mean? That you don't have enough capital to enter a $560 trade comfortable? I'd argue that if the reward:risk is favorable then it's not expensive at all. If you want to go cheap do another trade instead of trying to get clever with a debit spread. How about a butterfly...

Get back to basics. If you're bullish: If IV is low, buy a call. If IV is high buy a call and sell a further OTM call to partly offset the debit. (Call debit spread) You're already saving money on a call by selling the further OTM call. When evaluating spreads you have more that one choice...

Kinda like trading, really: finding what works for you.

I looked at the straddle IVs for various months. The IV is predicting a very large move so unless you have some predictive edge to know the move is going to be bigger than that you're just giving away money.