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Wait is it this? I'm getting confused tho cuz that says $14.62 and the CBOE site says the minimum increment is 0.05 points, which does not do into $14.62.

Would you mind posting a chart of Vix futures? I can't find it on ino.com.

how much do VIX futures pay per tick? edit - $50 per tick? Holy shit.

o rly? They always say most contracts expire worthless. BUT is that because there is so much speculative buying going on? I mean people are buying May 167 SPY calls. That's not going to happen. And honestly I'm not sure how you make money selling a $0.01 option after commissions, but...

np. Poster comes in, makes a thread implying that trading is easy because "all you have to do is look at this one simple thing" (you know, the thing that is so simple that everyone else in the world misses it... and which he is probably willing to sell to you for the low low price of $47 if...

I think you missed the sarcasm.

Elaborate with quantifiable examples of why trading is as simple as you claim it is. Silly noobs! Losing money with indicators, fibonacci, MACD, stochastics, ergodic, RSI, stupid money management rules, pyramind winners, average down on losers, hedging, options, wasting all their time. All...

He's probably still counting his money from the Fibonacci Day that was yesterday. There's only one real fibonacci journal on ET.

I'm half ninja. I slipped by while they were interrogating people who use SCT and some guy who had himself tangled up with Prof Logic's ergodic "system," and then I easily limboed under a Fibonacci retracement and here I am :D Also, I'm not a bad trader; I just don't know anything about options.

I agree with the OP. But, there are a few things to consider: - Not everyone uses the same indicator - If anyone had a holy grail indicator, they would keep it to themselves (so the market would not become saturated with people using it) - Some people may use TA in a way that works...

Including transaction costs?!

Say you're selling covered calls and buying them back and selling a future one (rollover). Do you pay a full transaction cost + contract fee for each of those? So like: Write first covered call: transaction cost + contract fee Buy back: transaction cost + contract fee Sell future call...

You know, maybe it was that. I forgot ET was only for profitable traders who already know everything.

Did you make a lot of monday today? Today is 4/27/2011. If you add those up: 4 + 2 + 7 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 1 you get 17. If you add those up: 1+7 you get 8 8 is a fibonacci number. Therefore, fibonacci numbers should be extra power today since today is a fibonacci day

So what I read about options expiring ITM and being profitable was not correct?

The contradictions mentioned in my post: So is it $1.00 or $0.27 per 100 shares? Also this:

Scottrade is $7 per trade. IB says $0.005 per share in the US. So does that mean Scottrade is cheaper once I start trading over 1,400 shares at a time? If I buy ETFs in 200 share lots, that would only cost me one dollar with IB? I am wondering what I am missing because Scottrade is...

I thought I read that ITM = profitable (possibly excluding commissions).

According to this, a 55 Aug QQQ put will lose money if it is $54.55 by August 8th. Why? $54.50 is ITM for a 55 put, is it not? (the numbers on there are ROI as a percentage of maximum loss, NOT dollar amounts. For some reason, you cannot select dollar amounts for buying calls/puts...

ironic post is ironic