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Actually, (don't tell anyone :cool: ) I've been using my Think or swim free trial for about 6 years now. Never deposited any money. Not sure if that's still an option, but you might want to try it out.

I can't stand Obama, but I respect the fact that he wears a $210 watch given to him by his SS detail. Out here in farm country, a flashy watch isn't going to impress anyone. Just the opposite. But I suppose you city slickers need to spend your money on something.

You said you are aware of the differences, so you know they are entirely different worlds. The only reason for you to leave what you are doing would be if trading is an all encompassing passion which you can't resist. 50/50 isn't good enough. But if you decide it is good enough, the...

I'm not a huge NASCAR fan, so I didn't know about the new design. But I think it's kind of interesting. It's kind of irrelevant, but I remember a sportscaster explaining how the hood on a race car is identical to the corresponding car which is available on the basic car lot. But that's...

Green? Isn't that the middle of the road JW?

Dude, get healthy. Talking sports trash is one thing, health is another. Yeah, that WI - MN game wasn't fun. The rankings are all over the place this year, and who knows where the final numbers will end up.

In all fairness, I'm not sure you can call a state a douche. Some of the inhabitants, perhaps. But the state? Hmm..

Yes.

After further review, no. You might want to watch it again. Objectively this time. Oh, and I'm really sorry about the gophers once again being over rated, and dropping out of the top 25 after this weekend.

at 0:25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ybVm3Oxyw Congrats to my Badgers for finally being ranked this year. Well deserved after knocking down a couple of top 5 teams in the last two weeks.

So, we live in an arena where someone who isn't even in the game, thinks they are justified in dictating to those of us who are actually in the game, that one time frame is more dignified than another. You're on a trading website, dumbass. You might want to write that down.

I'm not sure they are chastising as much as expressing their curiosity. But hey, if it takes 20 monitors to get you out of bed in the morning, so be it. (Not being sarcastic, btw)

A lot of time decay happens on Friday in anticipation of the weekend, simply because there is no trading over those days. If someone could provide an app which measures how much theta occurs on Sunday while I'm watching the masters tournament, I'd like to know about it, lol.

8 percent!? I trust your number, but that is scary. If the mean reversion thing doesn't work out, i may have to become an advisor just to help prevent that type of thing.

I agree that you need to adapt and move on, but I used to be a big fan of trading consolidation breakouts on unusually active stocks. Not so much anymore.

Oh man, I failed that one miserably. Forgot all about American vs Euro. Reminds me of the story in Cottle's book when the guy forgot to exercise and had to shut down his operation. Ouch.

I guess I should finally answer your question. No. On the surface it looks like a straight forward debit spread. Am I wrong?

In my experience, trading a 120 SPY option is quite different from trading the SPX 1200's. Not being a smart ass. I just don't know why you would want to trade them against each other. Really no reason to.

Mods, move this out of the options forum if you'd like. Doesn't seem like it belongs there anymore. Up to you.

I have a couple of strategies I trade daily, and I guess I would give myself an A+ when it comes to risk control on both. But I would give myself a B+ on my mean reversion strat, and honestly a C- on the consolidation breakout strat, when it comes to allowing my profit targets to get hit. I...