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Sounds more like they need Anthony Weiner for a DONG scandal. :p

The screener on IB is great for this sort of thing. Set a minimum price, volume and % change from yesterday's close.

This strategy is very similar to collaring strategies that do best with very volatile stocks. If the stock gives good up and down movement (i.e. multiple strikes) every month you'd be able to build up a large underlying position with the sold calls paying for the long puts. The strategy slowly...

Your friend's observations might be related to the "max pain" theory in options. I only have a cursory understanding, but basically price for the underlying tends to gravitate to the max pain price on expiration. There's tons of info on it on the interwebs. I never really believed in it myself.

You can't trust simulated account fills on any broker. Best you can do is have a trade simulator front-end that has its own fill rules that you define.

Ah, you must be a porn-surfin Windows man. Use Linux, don't catch viruses. Hey Scataphagos have you measured the wear on your SSD? There are various tools out there to give you some idea of how "used up" the Flash chips are.

For the truly paranoid you can set up a RAID array. Certain configurations allow the loss of 1 drive but still have recoverable data. Also all drives are not equal. There are consumer grade and enterprise grade drives.

I've run several computers 24/7 for years. The only component I've had to replace was a power supply.

Open the chart for the instrument you're interested in, in the menu on the chart select Edit -> Chart Parameters. At the bottom there's a checkbox for Show data outside of regular trading hours.

There's a TWS setting for graphs showing data outside trading hours.

(Someone who lost a lot of money trading options without knowing what he was doing, now bashing options using poor spelling/grammar.)

DOW looks to have good expectancy: probability finishing above 35.0: 0.90 probability finishing below 30.0: 0.02 probability between: 0.08 0.90(51) - 0.02(449) - 0.08(224) = 17.31

I'll let you guys in on a dirty little secret: nobody makes a fortune trading their own accounts. Fortunes are made trading other people's money. Even if you crash and burn, YOU got paid and that's all that counts.

Depends on what you mean by "long run". 2700 light years?

I can see where you keep the Glock. :-P

Nah, just very observant.:cool:

The probability on IRBT appears to be only 60% which seems lower than your usual picks.

Is that silver box in the middle of the bookcase where you keep your Glock?

I don't remember taking any kind of options test for IB or TOS/TD

Your lower strike should be 52.5, not 53.5.