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HA! I just double-checked: this thread *is* in Psychology. "Phew!" Okay then, My Favorite Bitch*: The grand contradiction between: [cue whiney know-it-all snarky voice] "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different outcome." versus the gem from...

I sold above the market yesterday, between 1400hrs and 1500hrs. {"Yipes! But the vol! The vol!"} and, with vol falling today, feel like I'm staring into another short squeeze over the next week. {"But the market is red, dude. That's 'down.'"} So, I've got a bunch of vintage stuff on the bottom...

I regret I had to breeze through it way too fast this morning, but I couldn't figure out *what* was supposed to supply inputs (dependent variables) to any model... Any help? Yes, I saw the "Model Parameters" area, but do not recall seeing any sort of *selection*. As far as UI, yeah, I saw...

Nope. If it *does* matter, you'd want to do what I described above, as the others are intended to give you buy-writes.

Ummmmm -- if I follow you here, you're recommending a book that wouldn't work for you, based on dismissing volume as being the other half of every trade besides price. Ehhhhhh. Errrr-ummmmmm. Uhhhh. No. Any transaction is price x volume. You ignore either at your peril. Period.

In defense of utilities {"Really?? *McGinnis*?!?"} Utilities are not there to "trade" -- profit involves successful risk garnering reward. Utilities are there to provide *guaranteed* power. They *try* to do that at the lowest reliably attainable price. For utilities, future contracts and options...

Had I the testicular mass, I'd join you. [Let's see: time for an emogi..... Nope. They don't have one for "Sorry. No balls."] :rolleyes:

Yeahhhhh. Interesting. Interesting. *Definitely* worthy of a beer, but I'll go further -- worthy of an MBA project, or in those departments that do "essays" -- of being 1 essay in support of a Ph.D...... ("An *assay* essay!") I'm sure it's been done; I just don't know about it. But the last...

State-level utility regulation is a battle between professional staff (who cry "Armageddon!") and regulatory hacks (who mutter, "What? Me worry?"). The usual outcome is pablum: -- the utility knows best -- the market will fix all -- life is great; life is tough; {pick one}. "While no 'right'...

Not to quibble, but didn't you mean, "...volume floods into ETF v stocks, creating [even more] opportunities....." Yeah, the vig has evaporated. But the methods by which to *earn*..... sheeesh! The issue in 2017 (a thousand years into The World's Greatest Bull Mkt Ever-rrrr-rrr-rrr), is...

((My votes...)) A half-point?? That would not lead to stable prices, and could directly be "challenged" as not maximizing employment -- so I'll vote "no." Yellen's yellin' similar to December?? I wanna vote "Yes" in a big way, but with those "key words" missing or reversed. Just a couple, but...

You read it too fast, RM -- and you read it as a former 'inside guy'. The remark was **lovethetrade said: No, market conditions change but that doesnt mean strategies become redundant. Logic that worked 20 years ago still works today.** You just wrote of conditions, and for sure, they've...

1) This reminds me of "Princess Bride" -- I do not think ^redundant^ means what you think it means. But if you take it to mean something like "stale and unprofitable", then Yes. (Hmmmm. Even "stale" is not right.) Imagine profitable trades to be fish in a big inlet off the ocean, and our...

I'll bet there are 6 different ways to put on a covered call in TWS. The best way for you is unknowable -- as none of us know your general patterns of trading, and as well, *you* don't know your general patterns of trading. You need to spend a LOT of time on the paper account. Get to it. That...

"Classic" is right. Poor buggers. I have the same theory about "3 meals and a sundown"....... it has worked *so* well.... and for *so* long........ I must be a bloodifuggin genius.

IB will do both.

Especially once the kids arrive......

There's too much hidden info here. A better bet would be to configure some logic, and post it for people to poke holes in. As it is, I couldn't get from one end to the other without half-a-dozen WhatAbouts. But you covered the biggest: market price hurdling your presumed range. How many 50pt...

That's "straddle"... I got 'em confused too, early on. But there was this gal, see........ a redhead with green eyes.........

I have not done this, but have heard it recommended. (I know. That is pretty vague.....)