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    Trade Halt Question on ACY.

    Nice trade bro!!!!!!!!!!! What possessed you to buy a stock up 200 to 500 percent on the day????
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    Brief Introduction

    Sadly,I am blessed and cursed with the unique ability to discover mispricings and spread off of it. It's extremely labor intensive,mucho screen time ,a shitload of cancel and replace,not to mention commish apx 25 percent of my P and L,and,being tagged as a pro.. Im not complaining as the year...
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    Var.swaps, dispersion & other vol related trading.

    I think from a sales perspective,you are operating way above the pay grade of most of your competitors..Pretty sure your knowledge of products along with your hands on trading experience is close to the top when compared to other salesman..Definetly ahead of the curve.. What makes you say sales...
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    Var.swaps, dispersion & other vol related trading.

    Whats your preference,trading or sales? As you know,totally different beasts.. If I am not mistaken you have not traded a correlation/dispersion "book".Have you traded the Vix?? I was head trader of ED at a big boy IB..I know what i looked for:)
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    Why are there no bids for OTM options on some stocks?

    Cheap shot !!!!!!!!
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    Why are there no bids for OTM options on some stocks?

    Perhaps,but why do they mysteriously tighten the market as soon I improve on their truck wide market
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    Why are there no bids for OTM options on some stocks?

    Because those rat bastard market makers are counting on you to fat finger an order and hit a zero bid or lift some preposterous offer:)
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    Need help with Portfolio Margin Test

    Depending on the stocks you trade and if you are a seller of ATM vs OTM.PM may not help..Im taling about stocks where they simulate up/down 50 percent
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    How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O'Neil

    I would read Momentum Masters if you are interested in the Canslim approach..
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    Need help with Portfolio Margin Test

    Yikes....You sure you want portfolio margin?? Why are you switching?? I do it as I can ratio till the cows come home :)
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    If you had only 1 hour to look at a financial statement, what would you glance at?

    Lol!!!!!! You are a 'Funny Guy".... Think Goodfellas
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    If you had only 1 hour to look at a financial statement, what would you glance at?

    Read The Mickeys post,he kindly summed it up... in the Holiday Spirit ..
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    If you had only 1 hour to look at a financial statement, what would you glance at?

    You still don't know what the Fook you are talking about.. Top 3 guys in the stock division returning over 300 percent are all Canslim disciples.. I could never aspire to your lofty status.Ill have to come to grips with maxing out as Managing Director of Equity Derivatives at 2 major IB's..
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    Options Podcast worth watching

    Wasn't terribly impressed with Felix's marketing of finding the "single" correct option to buy.. If that's your gig,do your homework and use something like Orats and run backtests on a basket of stocks with varying option strikes/maturities..
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    Valuations of options using price interrelationships

    Haven't traded SPX in a while,but the SPY options are definetly impacted by dividends ... Regardless,you don't look at the same month/strike for skew.. For starters compare 25 Delta put to 25 Delta call...Normalize it if you want to impress your friends or pick up babes. :)
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    IV crush for SPX Calls

    What duration??
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    Poor man's covered call

    Give an example and assume you get assigned on the first call you sell(yes,highly unlikely) It's,going to come down to the strike differential vs what you paid for the spread and the residual value of the corresponding leap put should assigned on the,short call..Im ignoring divs and rebate...
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    If you had only 1 hour to look at a financial statement, what would you glance at?

    Most people/traders are flat out LAZY....... One should study as much as they can,and have an open mind before discounting it... My analogy is MMA..... Sure you can solely focus on striking and ignore a ground game,but let me know how that works out for you the first time someone hits you with...
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    If you had only 1 hour to look at a financial statement, what would you glance at?

    100 percent disagree with you.... It appears you look at trading in a very narrow scope,and if you are making money,your method obviously works for you...But that does not discount the value of various financial metrics in another traders approach The entire system of Canslim,modified Canslim...
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