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Real wallstreet? Things never change for the last hundred years in wallstreet, at least not to anyone in WS. Money still everything matter in WS

10 million and impact the liquidity in currency trading? Not a chance.

Nevet disagree. Most of the ET "experts" here are the type of failed "quant" (mostly are some so called poor profesional such as engineer, mathematician, school teacher, accountant, students and etc) that though they can break the secret of the market by their limited knowledge in math +...

It is OK to short when the fed stop their QE, until then, don't fight em..

Techinal analysis is completely NOTHING when compare to Fed. Don't fight against fed.

If the firm consider you as their employee, why should you pay them a "training fee"? These type of firm is actually an education firm that selling their training course or BS system. They are using marketing ploy by rebranded themselves as "firm that hire trader", and plan to suck you to...

:) If you are newbie and you just happen to be in one of this "prop" firm, good luck and all the best.

The key point here is you can always short put and if it moves against you, you end up to own the stock. The common "expert" advice is to short call against the stock until it get "called away", however, you are exposing yourself to new risk, you now own the stock and how about if it continue to...

What happen if tza will continue slide lower ? Also, how much commission you have pay for the "exercise" for the 14/14.5 spread ?

What i said is non of the model is 100% accurate. If you too hang on those bul*sh** model, the only thing i can say is good luck. Note: don't ask me what is the best approach, trade secret. ;)

Where and who you get this idea/strategies from? Guru?? Trading forum? Books?

Inaccurate model. If model can predict 100% accurate, you will not have any chance to win in options trading.

If you only willing to risk 1k, instead of buying 27 contracts of debit spread with 0.36 (in which you have to pay more in commission and slipage for teo legs), i will go for a plain 5 contracts straigh call, cheaper (in term of commission and slippage) with unlimited upside gain, and easy...

Define risk..

Don't seem any real movement after the earning.

My bad, i mean strangle

This time you might be right as there is no history for BABA move post earning announcement, so I will wait and see. ;) If I am you, I will go for cheap straddle.

Just close out the position. Honestly, no one ever exercise the option at expiration as this will cost you more (exercise fee, cash to long/short stock). Option trader normally just "close" the positions (buy back the short leg & sell the long leg)

No, you just sell the whole positions ( 2 legs) with a profit. Technically your just "reverse" the positions that you opened. Example: XYZ was $101 a month ago, you buy a call $100 and sell and call $105 for a debit $2 XYZ is $104 near expiration, you decide to close the position and take your...

++1. You can only gain profitability after many years (> 5 years) of experience and commitments, plus you should be at least smart and has data driven mind.