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Yahoo options, Scottrade, etc., none of these places gives Greeks. They just give bid/ask, strike, and volume. I think actually seeing the Greeks would be helpful to me. Thanks.

No way, I'd want a few million before I even considered long term positions on the ES.

adamm2 post more screenshots of that indicator.

Why not pair trade them? This is a question, not a suggestion. I have no experience pair trading. Short the top one, buy the bottom one. Sell when they meet. (I think that's how it works).

I quoted a post by adamm2. In that post, he attached this image, which shows an indicator called "SMI" which appears to make 100% accurate calls: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2830179 Hence, that indicator looks like the holy grail.

Ok now I understand. Yeah, when I see "unlimited losses" I interpret that as "potentially more than you spent/end up owing someone money," such as, like you say, shorting stocks or uncovered calls. I was trying to figure out where the "unlimited" came in, like if I wrote my 120 call for my...

Oh. When I saw the risk/reward graph for a covered call, it showed potentially unlimited losses, so I thought I was missing something. But how is it unlimited? You've got the cost of the premium + what you paid for the stock. Even if the stock goes to zero, that's not unlimited. So what...

Wow, that indicator looks like the holy grail :D

Wait, how do I lose money if price goes below the strike. If price goes below the 120 strike price then the owner of the call has the right to buy the shares at 120, but why would he want to? They're cheaper at market price. How do I lose money in that situation? Wouldn't I just keep the...

I knew it. Wait, what? Crap I didn't notice that. OK, new example for one that actually has some liquidity. ---------------------------------------------------------- April 120 call. Let's use the lowest listed price (bid) which is 11.50. So I have 100 shares of SPY @ 131...

I don't know much about options. I've been trading stocks and futures for years but have never been interested in options until just recently. I didn't know there was supposed to be a direct correlation between number of posts on ET and amount of trading knowledge amassed. I will talk to an...

Ok, if I sell a call option then I get the premium. Ok say I own 100 shares of SPY. Looking at Yahoo's option chains, an April 85 call for SPY is $44.10 (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/os?s=SPY&m=2011-04). So if I were to sell that option, I would be paid $4,410, right? So if I just...

bump you slackers!!!

Please share more with me about this. Thanks.

I did for a while in my journal thread until I stopped day trading (for non-trading related reasons).

What's that? I googled it and got this thread.

Yesterday's close was 55.71 according to Yahoo Finance. Today's close was 56.84 That's 2.02%. That's where the issue was I think.

1) I don't think so http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=qqq 2) I thought QQQ followed the nasdaq. I understand little variances here and there, but I'm talking like a few percent difference, not a factor of 10 like here.

Nasdaq is up 0.24% QQQ is up 2.12% QLD is up 0.41% today? The rest of the ETFs are as they should be. Dow is up 0.41% DIA is up 0.40 DDM is up 0.77% Those three make sense. Why is QQQ disproportionally high today? I'm not complaining, I'm long QQQ, I'm just curious.

lol guess not.