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There is a difference between an option trader and a stock trader that uses options. If you are the latter, i would not recommand try to swing trade by going long using option contracts. It's a loser's game. And a good qualifcation test whether you are an option trader or not is to search...

IB has the greeks

Closed this out today as the remaining premium is no longer worth the margin. The spring is winded pretty tight now, big move in either direction coming soon. Short 5x JUNE 1290P at 4.6pt, exited at 0.6pt (after commission). 20pt*50-> +$1000 gain jw, are you still playing?

i think you guys are right, that might be the best play. buy a leap atm or even 5pt itm put. Then sell the monthly otm puts. If oil continues to gap up, i will make some loss back from the front month puts. If oil gaps down heavily, i make the spread. Looking at today's price action, it's...

increase production by half a million barrel per day is pretty significant, no?

Hi, 1) What's the difference between QM and CL futures contracts? they are both quoted to be the same price. Which one is better for options trading? 2) Given the saudi increase production news over the weekend, why isnt oil dropping like a rock? On IB, both QM and CL are only down about...

Not to get derailed, but looks like DJAGR is at a double top. What's the actual $DJAGR underlying symbol for options?

Looking for some suggestions on how to make a long term play on the oil (USO) with options. My sentiment as follows. 1) Oil will come down..hard...eventually. Looking at the chart dating back 10 years, in addition to the macro economic + social and political link to oil prices, the current...

it's all the same shit, to get approved for options trading/shorting and what not. You need to update your profile to meet the legal requirements to be approved. All the brokers do this including IB. I will let you figure out how to update your own profile. Calling etrade a shitty...

for options, i would go with optionsxpress. Their fees is not the lowest but the website, support, and online documentation/guides etc.. are top notch. And system is 100% stable, never had a single problem. Go with opx, get your feet wet and learn the stuff. Then once you are ready to move...

the thing is if you lease, some of the luxury cars really dont cost that much more than their average counterparts after lease specials. For example i was quoted for acura tl $340 + $0down, rl $480 + $0down. Compared to an average camery LE for like $230/mon + $1k down. I mean for maybe...

sell way otm google options. there are no risk at all! :D

I have a better idea, how about telling your development team to actually MAKE MOBILE TRADER WORK? I am not even talking about adding new features, just make the damn thing work with a standard smartphone running windows mobile + opera/ie browser. It's unbelievable in this day and age, a...

yes, cabs in germany are all mercedes if i remember correctly.

making a small otm play below the 1300 support. options x should be a good contrarian next week, given this week's down market. I will have a hard stop loss at exactly the strike = 1290 Opened: Short 5x JUNE 1290P at 4.6pt

http://www.optionseducation.org/classes/contract_adjustments/whatyou_01.jsp

yes you cannot short, you cannot daytrade(buy/sell same day), stock cannot move more than 10% in either direction, there is a 2 hour lunch break where market is closed for traders to take a nap, there are no options. Can you imagine the market vol if those hard checks are removed. They were...

Yes all the retail who made their money from the real estate boom and dove nose first into the market are frozen in that deer in the head light moment. Most has no idea how to trade or what stop loss means, the past 2 years of super bull only fueled the belief that all you need to do is put the...

bullshit, a lot of market makers are in the sunken ship over in china too. Keep in mind, it is still a very young and inexperienced market with unbelievable amount of manipulation. Most people including the "professionals" started trading only 5-10 years back over there. Mokwit, where did you...

man looks like shit hit the fan in china. Shanghai index down 7.7%