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bats ecn i think it´s 2.5 (2.6) batstrading.com

pyramiding, you mean average up or average down? if you do just random entries you win in noisy markets and you lose in trends so isn´t that 50 / 50?

Thanks Don and John, just downloaded the chat (thanks spinner) and enjoyed listening to it. I will be interested in a next chat about strategies, as Don proposed for December. Looking forward to it! Regards, t4s

hi there! I am wondering about the future of the regular prop trader´s strategies. employed as at Bright, SwiftTrade or any of the bigger ones. The price improvement on the NYSE is going to dissapear, same with opening only orders by the specialist, the trading for rebates is getting more...

I´d say they make a distinction between offering most professional services for round lots, and still offer odd lots without the bells and whistles (maybe just handled by timber)

are these hybrid already? and would you let these trades go 1 or more pennies against you, or always scratch or win? thanks

how much exactly? and what are transaction fees etc.

optimal f is too large everyone agrees. is there a consensus which % of optimal f would work best for traders?

thanks for the detailed response

yes, but when the market is not range bound flat or dropping, then you will cap your winners and still not beat the long term marketavg. which is 7% per year or so? so basically selling covered calls is predicting when the market will be range bound/flat or dropping, and covering your calls...

thanx trader666 great stuff :)

inet is not inet anymore, it´s nasdaq now

jack hershey: i see spydertrader´s equitycurve was +100% in a year, i don´t know if he followed exactly what you mentioned before here, or there is some secret sauce added, which i am not going to find out, i am more busy with my own research. in the first case i´d be stumped hehe

what does selling covered calls make a better strategy for someone striving for 15% than buy and hold? i don´t really see the difference

of course per 1000 shares hehe

you heard it here first, nasdaq will unify their pricing for all markets to $2 for adding, and $3 for taking liquidity per share! i always thought so, nyse is dead and listed stocks are gonna trade exactly the same as otc!

could you give me a backtest on that please? *stumped* edit, most serious professional traders i know actually make 100% or more per year on small accounts, so it´s not that i have a small vision, it just ain´t as easy as mr hershey seems to believe

you know what, I offer you *1 million dollar* for the system. but only after the system has proved itself by making me 2 mln :D

i congratulate you with your success, i truly do. and i agree it´s easier make 15% with 100k than it is for a hedgefund. my suggestion stays the same. an addition would be that i don´t think it would be that much easier to do with buying stranglesstraddles on the q´s than with...

you said "doing some strangles or straddles on the Qs" and when somebody asked buying or selling, you say, i prefer buying. and you don´t need any advanced analysis or something. how does this advice differ from somebody saying, wanna make 15% a year, buy some msft (or pork bellies or ...)...