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    Automated trading options with IB or other firms - Any advice or comments?

    How about TradeStation/ OptionStation? Q http://www.tradestation.com/optionstationSuite/OptionStationSuite_overview.shtm Automated trading, as it relates to direct-access electronic placement and execution of equity options trades, requires manual one-click verification before order is...
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    Testing Option Strategies With TradeStation

    Is there any further input from anyone? TIA.
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    Trading is "Paradox"

    For those who may not know, that post is based on Denver's song "Perhaps Love". :D
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    Trading is "Paradox"

    Perhaps Trading (Trader A) Perhaps trading is like a resting place A shelter from the storm It exists to give you comfort It is there to keep you warm And in those times of trouble When you are most alone The memory of trading will bring you home (Trader B) Perhaps trading is like...
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    Prop trading looks great, then why most retail traders don't simply join in?

    Here is my Google search finding: Q off topic question. haircut prop-trading seems to be the way to go, and retail option traders seem to be going the way of the dodo bird, wouldn't u agree? Say I wanted to buy 100k worth of NDX gamma in a retail acc't, I'd need the full 100K, whereas in a...
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    Prop trading looks great, then why most retail traders don't simply join in?

    Thanks again Don. Virtually a prop firm acts as the risk manager of its prop traders.
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    Prop trading looks great, then why most retail traders don't simply join in?

    How about: Probably most prop firms trade mainly stocks; perhaps not many prop firms focus on futures; hardly any prop firm concentrates on options. The whole framework of prop trading would be: Trading options is the main job for prop firm's risk managers.
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    Prop trading looks great, then why most retail traders don't simply join in?

    Even worse, why would a trader in prop firms require a "Broker" license S7? And hedge fund traders not? :confused:
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    Real Trading Strategies

    Thanks for the truth, Nitro.
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    My Conclusions

    "Mistruths about Options" http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=141671&highlight=book#post141671 :D
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    Am I a genius or a fool

    PN, you'll be a fool if not following Hypo's genius suggestion. :D :D :D
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    Should I switch?

    imo, probably a market cannot exist without both profitable and losing traders.
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    Searching a phrase with a group of words?

    Thanks Sim03. Better than nothing on ET. :)
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    Searching a phrase with a group of words?

    Can I do searching a phrase with a group of words, say two words "elite trader" connecting together, rather than separately disconnected?
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    Is it because I dont care?

    Not exactly. Anyway, I think you've already got many useful comments (including particularly your own ones) from your journal thread. Most likely in trading financail markets it takes a very long time to achieve what we want, imo. Good luck!
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    My Conclusions

    Are there any good books on speculating options on either short or long term basis?
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    Is it because I dont care?

    What are your average figures on max loss and max gain per trade, based on the top losers and gainers?
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    Is it because I dont care?

    Looks like someone on ET has a high quality mirror that can see oneself clearly, and talks to the image often on ET. :D
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    My Conclusions

    What's your average holding time per trade? And average ratio of Return: Risk?
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    My Conclusions

    http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1145363&highlight=system#post1145363
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