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i wasn't being serious when i said "freaking" so hard to get sarcasm in text

API is an acronym for application Interface... this is basically what interactive brokers or any other brokerage firm or data provider gives you to hook into .. its basically a protocol for doing business data wise.. that being said.. i know what you mean.... and i don't by any means want...

i'll read Hull... never saw that one... by far the simplist most straight forward options market making.. its a very small book... and it goes into dynamic hedging wrangles butterflys.. time spreading.. Time spreading i'm really interested in.. i need more on this..

yeah freaking give example..

sorry your not clear i can tell which opinion your trying to side with

He quoted you and said nothing

your totally right... we should strip off a whole nothing section for us nut jobs.. i like actually playing earnings.. partly because of the blow outs.. sometimes the whole small bets paying out big thing happens.. i'm trying to get a little better at exploiting the vol term structure.. and...

thats good maybe my weekly butterfly will make up for all my earnings gambling.. :)

well i'm discretionary trading like you.. obviously that couldn't apply to those mechanical traders out there.. they just let their automated trading systems rip.. to be honest.. i know all lies start like that haha.. jk but seriously.. i think i've done rather well considering... i'm not rich...

ice bergs.. vwaps... thats german to me... obviously that means that people are posting options trades to game people watching.. which i would have to consider.. but you seriously think it would be a total fruitless task with no insight what so ever gained?

i just built a really nice desktop for myself.. i had a decent one before.. harddrives are always bottle necks.. 16 thread chip, sata 3 SSD hard drive.. solid state is the only way to go.. 550 r/w ... my computer blazes... i've only got a little over 9 bills in it.. considering i reused my...

Don bright wrote an article this pass month in the S & C mag about rebate biz.. I had no idea that was going on... shows you were i'm at.. such a noob... but i hope one day to remotely make markets.. or at least make a living doing this and get out of my day job digging holes with mis mexicanos

i figure i'm going to rip down a bunch of data into a database.. serve to to my own spread sheets to graph it in anyway i like... once you rip down a couple months of data on the monthlys and weeklys some anomoly might show up... i really wanna get time and sales data.. look at basically...

CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS EXCHANGE, INCORPORATED FEES SCHEDULE JULY 1, 2012 G) CO-LOCATION Per Month Co-location of Equipment Fee (per “U” – 1.75 inches)...

the more i think about this trade.. on GMCR the more i think about just straight buying options... i've look at historical data.. And of course its moved more then options have implied.. as you would think.. so statistically speaking your better off buying options even if this earnings the vol...

i actually agree with both my statement and your statement and yet i'm still withholding judgement on both.. haha.. I do believe just as in any business you can create an edge for yourself.. but i as well believe your better off attributing wins to luck sometimes and losses to your lack of...

Patterns in Randomness.. the more you fall back on the fact that everything is random.. the more likely you are to succeed in my opinion.. but i'm just an ET retard... why do you think we all run our strategies through monte carlo simulations.. ? thats throwing pure randomness at your...

I like unlimited profit profiles and company's that consistantly have higher realized vol compare to implied vol

Not explicitly.. I'm dumb remember :). I'm gonna model some flys o see what you might be talking about

Dedicated or colocated aren't shared... its not slow to administrate so many people do it in so many different businesses... if your gonna put hundreds of thousands of dollars the costs are marginal