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What do you mean by "export your trading data and import into our system?" How?

Very nice. But you forget to calculate the most important cost of all. Your opportunity loss. What income and benefits could you have been making doing something else?

Well, that's pretty ridiculous. You're just kicking off your fund with a few initial clients and you're going to tell them, what? "Thanks for the few hundred thousand. And by the way, if you get a statement and happen to notice your 20% drawdown, I'll be out of town. Just leave a message."

Trading OPM at any degree puts you on an entirely new level of responsibility and anxiety. If you haven't had the experience, you might want to try to involve a family member or close friend at even a tiny level of involvement to see if its something you can handle emotionally. Yes, that can...

The TF used to be a wonderful instrument before the CME sold it. High volume and tight spreads. Now that it's going back home, it may become so again. Only time will tell. A few months at best.

The mass movement to ETFs is having a huge impact on the market. I fear that the VIX, for example, may be seriously wounded. It is the 800 pound gorilla in the room that we are all going to need to face, or flee.

And for put sellers, so is the suicide rate. You may take that as a joke. It isn't. Margin accounts and short puts do not mix well. Trade cash-secured, or not at all.

For all of you who took the time to respond to the OP FatMensch2K (who is probably appropriately named), you might want to reward him for his lack of response or gratitude by remembering that there is a handy IGNORE button here on ET. Thus, you won't be bothered by him again. If only real life...

The data was presenting bar lows that represented price points that were below what was actually printed in the markets. I only discovered it one day when I watched the price action in real time, then saw that the backtest would have had me in a trade that was not possible to have achieved. I...

And why would you wait three months to validate backtest results? Put your backtest results into a spreadsheet, then run back through your data, or charts, and log the entries and exits results by hand to compare. Or even better, use a data source other than that being accessed by your...

No. While many homes lost 40% of their value in the recession, I don't think that a bachelors degree is going to get downgraded to a high school diploma when a student loan is called.

Yes. You're trying to place a wager at the track against the folks who breed the horses. You'll never win consistently. A waste of your time.

Your question is worth looking at from an academic perspective, and the answer in general is yes. But in reality there are many variables that can impact the option price at a point of exploding volatility, two of the most important being delta and time to expiration.

I put crowd investing on the same level as crowd voting. Look where that's gotten us.

If you are just looking for charting, go to Freestockcharts.com

"...people are more worried now vs later..." Good God almighty. The woman has a crystal ball.

You just fell for the Meg Whitman scam. HP>EBAY>YOU

"Everybody has a plan until they're punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson

Never short a dull market.

You want advice? Okay, here's 15 years worth. (1) Get away from scalping. This isn't 1999. The reason you're scalping is because you don't have confidence or convictions. I understand. But stop doing it. (2) Invest in a good backtesting system, and live with it, sleep with it, eat with...