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Is there a difference between proper and improper volatility? Just wondering.

Then you may like EMLC. 6.16% yield and .30% expense.

If you're concerned enough about the position that you are now considering risking funds to protect it, then your best bet is just to close the position. Going to cash is a valid trading decision.

If you can produce a 3-year verifiable record with 60% and a 1.3 win/loss ratio...NET of spreads, commissions and fees...and if your system is scalable...then you might have a bit of interest from investors. But, if after 3 years, you've produced those numbers, then you'd be foolish to give it up.

Good for you if you can live outside of time. A nice parlor trick. But from my perspective, WHEN the price of XYZ is at a certain level is important in making a trading or investment decision. Is the price of XYZ down 10% over the past 2 days...or is it over the past 2 years? TIME is a big...

Plans without time. Far out, man.

The issue is what happens to the 40% that lose. If the average loss is close to or greater than your average win, then your 60% isn't worth the risk.

Love Tom Waits.

If your trading/investment income is a significant part of your overall income, then yes, you should be paying quarterly estimated taxes on that income. It does not have to be exact. The IRS wants to see an effort. It isn't difficult to do, and it can avoid problems later.

It has unfortunately come to this: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

On a 100K day trade, that's $500 in, and $500 out. No problem. Piece of cake.

The traits that you listed which are outlying the center circle are all bad/negative. Yet you presume here in the illustration that when they overlap in the center, they are then creating good trading traits? I don't get it. IMO, you need to consider how to present this information in a...

Your post tells me that you need to learn a lot more about options before putting money on the line. Unless you have a killer strategy or crystal ball, you will be looking at consistent losses buying puts. Or shorting the underlying. If you MUST proceed, trade single contracts to learn for...

The guys selling picks and shovels to gold prospectors in California in the '40s didn't tell them where the gold was. Because their business model was supporting the dream, not the reality. Save now as it ever was.

Instruments change. Components change. Major indexes alone are not what they were 20 years ago. I trade instruments that didn't even exist 5 years ago. So to expect any strategy to remain constant is an unrealistic expectation.

Yes, you are in fact trapped in a stupid mindset. Your assumption is that you should be able to predict, for tax planning purposes, what your gains/losses will be at the end of the year. But you can't. It's the same challenge faced by anyone who is self-employed.

It seems like you are under the impression that you are taxed (or not), on each trade. You are taxed at year end on your total capital gains. On your total winnings. If you started the year with 50K in your account, and ended the year with 55K, then you have 5K in gains on which you will be...

Assuming your account is not an IRA, you'll pay tax on your capital gains, whether or not you withdraw them. There is no limit to gains you can withdraw, or to the tax you may pay.

No wonder. You're simply trying to do the wrong thing in the wrong market. A trending market can cover your mistakes and pull you out of hot water. But this is not a trending market, and impossible to consistently place winning bets weeks or months out.

There are many adjectives I can come up with for trading. 'Fun' has never been one of them. Nor, is it likely to be for you.