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can't really complain, not great but not really bad either: three trades, two winners, one loser and we're not even halfway so expecting some more positive action.

it's not as simple as splitting the difference: it's splitting the difference and adding something if you want to buy, and splitting the difference and subtracting something if you want to sell. A market maker only buys or sells if there is some profit compared to theoretical prices for him.

you thought wrong

You will use much more money than is in your account. The net result would be better if you just did nothing and earned intrest on the money in your account. So this makes no sense at all.

just trade the futures

this is all very nice, shows you well where to get in, but ... where do you get out ...

what other people are saying is this: that's just impossible, they trade exactly in the same way. They are arbed to death.

Pin risk was described in many option books way before that. Well, maybe that's not 'the public' ...

Try to learn at least some basic stuff: stocks don't give intrest rates, they give dividends, something totally different. First lesson: buy yourself a good book on investing ...

like someone else told there is an intrest rate spread, but it's even worse, there is two times this spread, once for the intrest rate on the currency where you receive intrest and once for the intrest rate on the currency where you pay the intrest. A lot of firms (read: all) really make big...

by using an option model

it makes no sense whatsoever to look at historical options prices, they are derivatives ... change one thing in the option model and things would have evolved entirely differently ... the underlying, volatility, intrest rates ... it just makes no sense ... people who claim differently don't...

what exactly is the problem ? ? ? ? you just roll over four times if you want to hold a position for a year, you will pay a little commission but save much much much more on intrest rates ...

We live in Europe so getting IBD is not really an option.

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My dad is asking my advice because he is interested in taking a subscription of Zacks Breakout Trader. They claim to have returns of over 50% annually, by selecting turnarounds (from what I understand) and holding them for a month. They seem rather expensive, but he can get it at half price if...

Use quotetracker, and pay 60 usd a year and you can see 10 days of intraday data. It's great software.

you wont get filled if it gaps below with a stop-limit order at the open. That is if you remove your order after the opening, no way to do this last thing automatically as far as I know.

Yes, if this is what you what you want, this will do the trick

I'm really curious to see how many days it's going to take you to lose all your money with that attitude ... oh, and don't count on many members of ET to help you out with your next question, arrogant SOB ...