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Depending on your time frame. You draw a line from the lowest low to the highest high and that is swing trading. You can usually see the last high or low and draw a line. You do not know when the next low or high will be and you will be in the trend though. At least you don´t know...

It´s your money. But my amateurish experience in trend following shows that using stpp losses in a trend following system doesn´t work. You could use multiple moving averages. A lot depends on the length of trend you are contemplating. The market has to have room to fluctuate. The amount...

I don´t know why I can´t copy from Elite Trader? Anyway, Forex Forex told me to add 1 cent to a limit order back some time ago. When buying the ITM STRANGLE are 5 Cents for the Market Maker Spread in QQQ. Why I cannot picture this in my mind I don´t know? But when in TOS you pull up the...

Monday morning early. Been comparing prices with qqq and spy. Looks like I will trade the QQQ this week instead of the SPY. Prices are lower. I think I have worked out a trading strategy in long straddles. Now to test it this week in paper trading.

As a novice, I´m sitting on a Sunday afternoon, mulling over some ideas with trading the Long Straddle. I´m only a little wiser in this business, but one of my ideas was to compare in the QQQ, the difference between the bid and ask of a straddle and a strangle. The difference was 5 cents for...

Sorry Eliot It was a University study done on about 250 trades. It showed the account profit for long straddles, nearly doubling if you applied this modest simple money management rule, of dropping long straddles that had lost 10%. It didn´t go into a lot of detail, but I ran across it...

Fortis Fortis You will be pleased to note that your recommended trade was closed with a gain of 7% net profit. Real Money, albeit it was scared money and not very much. My Aug 127 straddle is losing money right now, but no hurry on that and I have shopping errands to run. That is...

Reading a bit on Long Straddles. Seems in a 1 month to 2 month straddle buying system. If you apply this money management rule, you boost your profits overall. 1) Close STRADDLE after it loses 10% of the spread value. 2) Let gaining Straddle run.

Learning Excel again, doesn´t really thrill me. Used to know it 20 years ago, but haven´t used it since. Isn´t there a FREE CALCULATOR for LONG STRADDLES on ThinkorSwim someplace?

You got me curious about that one. Care to explain the outcome and how it works out?

Sounds like you want to set profit targets? Your entries seemed okay, but your exits were found wanting.

Fortis Fortis Okay! I´´m in 2 contracts straddle spread at .89 cents REAL MONEY Also did a paper money similar of the Aug. SPY, 2 at a spread of $7.47 Compare them tomorrow morning. I´m closing down shop. Did everything I wanted to get done today.

Forex forex Lucky I started reading some messages back. Forgot this was supposed to be a trade in QQQ. Will wait another 40 minutes Anyway I switched from SPY to QQQ and I see the risk is $56 right now for a one contract STRADDLE. I suppose I should do five Straddles for a bet of around...

I forgot to mention, this morning was a Volatility ballooning. I caught the peak, about half an hour after the opening, or a bit more. Using the DMI indicator fast line to tell me where the volatility peak was.

Well I had four trades on, all of them paper trading with a pen. Not totally accurate, but I was using real time account for the prices. Gives an idea anyway. The trade I put on yesterday for FOREX Forex recommendation, 1) Forex straddle, done early in the morning yesterday. Returned...

Forex Forex My apologies. I haven´t even signed up on Yahoo Finance yet. Will do soon. What is IB? My mind puzzles problems overnight. Learned C++ once, and took a course at the Community College. With the intent to doing programming. I found that my mind wouldn´t shut off when...

Dolemite Thanks for your interest. No the prices probably are not realistic. I am actually doing this on real paper with a pen. I am giving a couple of cents to the real time straddle price. I mostly just want to familiarize myself with the workings of the index and the effects at this...

Eudamon Been thinking about your method. Essentially, since you are not adding a PUT, then it is not a PUT BACKwhatever, as described. Since you are just aiming for point 2, which seems to be the idea here and the most difficult part and buying another STRADDLE, then basically what...

Wow! You are losing more than I am. That makes me feel better! :)

Thankyou! Sometimes I don´t get the jargon used by professionals. I don´t know what the market is doing this morning. It is staying static with my indicator, though early about 20 mins into the day, it said down. Then later it returned to static. Sideways in the up direction. I...