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Did you mean 7%?

Nice soundtrack.

Profits are taxed already. They mean taxes on transactions.

+ 5%-10%

Condor and iron condor are constructed in totally different ways. http://www.theoptionsguide.com/neutral-trading-strategies.aspx

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My guess is financials will lead the market higher.

None of this strategies pushes the price of the stock down as short selling itself does. That makes the difference.

Since you are talking about the success rate of your trades it means you expect some of you trades to fail. Losses are unavoidable. Even with 90% probability of success 10% of your trades are expected to lose money. Maybe the key is to pay more attention to the correct money management not the...

Yes, please continue to post your calls.

lehman aggregate bond ( agg ), 4.67% yield. tlt, 20 yrs treasury, 4.3% yield.

Time decay play has to be by definition a market neutral strategy - one wants to profit from elapsing time not the market trends.

The gain from time decay for the option sellers is a short term interest rate. Not a whole lot of money to bargain for.

Just wondering if you are poor or elderly yourself?

Don't you think that the market will be going down for the rest of the week at least?

What software did you use?

But before you look at standard deviation you need to look first at the average price change from the previous day for the given dataset. It has to be near 0 for the choppy market. So for a choppy market average price change should be near 0 and the standard deviation should be small. This is...

I can guess that it might well be mere standard deviation from the mean for the given dataset. The smaller is the deviation the choppier is the market.

I pray that today was a turning point for McCain and his stock will start to rise.

Did you have any open positions on Aug 26?