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LOL! Moderator, please file this thread under "ET Classics".

LOL. If the Dow is down another 400 tomorrow (memories of 2002), I suspect a great number of resumes will be dusted off and polished.

All those selling puts....how are you feeling today, folks? Was it worth those few premies you collected?

Love it, love it, love it. Finally buying opportunities and volatility. Keep it coming!

A good example. The concept of selling premium is very seductive. And in the bull market we've enjoyed the past couple years, it has been even more so. But many, many option sellers were wiped out when the last bull market corrected, and it will happen again. I can clearly recall all the...

The premiums you pick up for a few months will look pretty lame if (when) we have a sharp pullback in the market. It isn't worth the risk. I speak from experience. The aforementioned fund manager doesn't sell options on equities. He sells on indexes. Still risky, but less so. If you...

I don't know what strategy you've been trading, but for many, including me, this has been a poor environment for swing trading, and the intraday timeframe has been a bit easier to trade. So you may simply be experiencing that. Also need to consider that you just may feel more comfortable...

Investor RT at www.linnsoft.com. With TrackData as your data source, you can scan intraday in real time with 700 symbols. Your watchlist on daily charts can be as large as you want it to be, but you will need to cut that down each day to 700 based on some criteria in order to scan intraday...

Correct. You put a thousand monkeys in a room with an IB account and keyboards, and at least one of them is going to retire with a gazillion bananas. Trading contests with thousands of entrants are a matter of luck, not of skill.

Yes, record foreclosures, credit crunch, record gas prices, etc. etc......yet the consumer sentiment comes in at 92. Go figure.

1. Buy stocks. 2. Buy real estate. 3. Hold for 30 years. 4. Sell

The problem I've had for a few days is hitting the "trade" button/cell on TWS and getting no response at all, even though the system does not seem to be down. If I hit it repeatedly, I can eventually get it to trigger the trade. Anyone else experiencing the same?

You can't possibly appreciate the impact of your emotions if you have been trading a simulator. It equates zilch-zero with what you'll face if you try to pull a living from the markets with a 25K stake. You're more likely than not to blow through that as tuition. Learning to trade is as...

Absolutely the best advice. My first boss years ago said "Take a job for what you can learn, and once you stop learning, move on." I pass that along to you. Your only concern should be the value of the experience and information you'll receive in terms of where you want to be a few years...

Sorry, but Walk Forward, Walk Backward, Walk Sideways....doesn't mean anything if you haven't got a real-time trade record. Simulations are a wonderful tool. But they can never account for many of the most important factors in trading success or failure. And in your case, any Q system...

The LA area, and California in general, will really sock you with taxes and expenses. Run all the numbers there before you make a commitment. It used to be paradise, but unfortunately those days have passed.

I moved from S. Florida a few years ago for the same reasons. Not worth the hassles any longer. IMO, I don't know why anyone would want to live in Vegas. Outside the strip, the place is very unattractive, and stuck in a barren Nevada landscape. Northern San Diego county is still very...

Nothing special, just getting back to some good old fashioned volatility. Remember volatility? You know, when things actually move up and down?

What planet are you on? Certainly not this one. Pull up a daily chart of the S&P and tell me where you see that momentum has faded, or how the market is "stuggling just to stay flat". There are a lot of adjectives one could use to describe this market, but "struggling" isn't one of them.

LOL! If paying for, and taking a course and exam, then filing reams of paperwork that require delays, and putting yourself on notice with the government, is not hard, then please tell me how you define easy. And do you think for a moment that C2s' business model can exist with federal...