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this is what I couldn't quite understand. So when you write options for indexs do you just get the premium itself not multiplied like you do with equities?

Does writing e mini puts work the exact same way as writing a normal stock puts? how many contracts does the put represent? is the premium multiplied? its pretty obvious I've never written futures puts..

The key to a super power is debt. america began creating its position after ww1 by supplying guns and materials to both sides on credit. there are some that argue that america only got involved in WW1 to assure that europe didn't completely destroy itself to the point where it couldnt repay its...

You make good points. It seems that the Market wizard books tend to be more dominated by technical traders. What always amazed me about the the guys in the market wizard books were that they all seemed to avg crazy returns every year. How does a guy average 300% over like 5 years? Is there...

i was looking at the top 100 traders in the trader monthly and ofcourse noticed that almost all were fundamentalist and were ex-analysts for companies like goldman sachs. are there any technicians that run that type of money? i can imagine it would be difficult. i know prop firms probably could...

I've already done that. they told me to register under another email address but that didnt work either. I just got an email from ninjatrader support stating that reregister is all they can reccomend because the forum administration is outsourced to another company. the main problem I'm...

I'm very new to programming and I can't figure out how to program a cumulative tick in ninja trader. I know its not that difficult but being such a newbie to programming and trying to figure it out is daunting. trying to program is taking away from my focus on trading. Anyone able to help...

Yall are jumping to a lot of conclusions. I know what the financial advisors are about. After just trading for 2 years im not gonna run that sum of money myself. I have averaged about 8% a year so far so its better than a bank account. And no he didn't involve me in any cdo's or anything like...

I use investopedia also. I've found wikipedia to be a huge help also in learning the details of some instruments, but having someone to just ask about things you dont completely understand is valuable also. I find boards like this one infinitely valuable for a huge amount of topics. theres no...

I understand that is a true hedge but how many hedge funds focus directly on hedging? That's kind of what he felt what hedge funds do. He seemed to thing hedge fund strategies were complex hedge strategies...

the reason I have a financial manager is because I have a nice sum of money that I personally am not comfortable managing myself as of the moment. I run a portion of the money but I keep the rest in a ubs account which is basically all bond funds and some mutual funds exposure but its pretty...

this is interesting.... a lot of what I read about in hedge fund strategies is risk management. as far as my financial manager goes, he is probably just naive as to what hedge funds do. he probably think its some highly complex "magic" being worked at hedge funds. I don't fault him for that.

I was talking to my financial advisor about hedge funds and I was telling him about a strategy that I heard some manager uses. My advisor said the strategy was too simple and that hedge managers use way more complex strategies. I have books about fund management that use portions of game theory...

I'm not that skilled with excel. any good sources for info like tutorials on building an indicator with excel?

What does csc stand for?

i wanna build a cumlative tick indicator. I know which data to use to build the indicator but I'm not sure which software is best to use for such an indicator. I've never built an indicator before so any help is appreciated.. any suggestions?

So volitility itself gives options value? even negetive volitility?

successful options trading seems pretty difficult.

thanks, ordered them both from amazon...

I've known and understood the basics of options for years. After rereading the john bender portion of stock market wizards I decided to get a better grasp of options as a whole and am having a difficult time. when I see these probability distribution equations I feel like I'm in the wrong class...