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I agree with your observation. 66 trades is a very small sample. It would be much more helpful if PTF provided the profit statistics based on their trades history.

What if we'll get there on Monday?

The market is moving sideways for the past 2 months.

This is a norm for option traders.

How come the market in the morning didn't anticipate the rising consumer confidence? That's the question.

There is small instruction brochure that comes with k-1 form at tax time and as far as I remember it stated that you own taxes for those specific items. Also make sure that it's your tax number written on the k-1 form since I've received multiple forms and some of them apparently listed the tax...

You pay only for the amounts stated in short-term capital gains, long-term capital gains and qualified div entries.

The sooner the better.

So you think those contributions come from people to the politicians who hold the opposite political views? The contributors and the politicians who receive money from them are 2 birds of a feather. So who you think is behind the current government and what you think the government does...

Is there anyone above the government?

Who are the leaders and who are their bosses? And how do you know the leaders of what level the OP had in mind?

What makes no sense is that the market is higher today.

VXM9 is the actual underlying for VXFFE. VXM9 = strike + VIX JUN call - VIX JUN put.

Right Mark, but you don't expect to make $2500 every month. In your case the risk of loss is $10K ( 10 contracts with 10 points width ) and the maximum reward is $3K. You are probably shooting for the annual profit which is in the ballpark of your risk. That is $10K or maybe less. That...

If you have let's say $10K ( all cash ) of the total capital how you know how many contracts you can sell ( how much risk you want to take? ) in order to shoot for 2-3% monthly return? For example you are selling iron condors on spy ( currently traded @ ~$90). I am just trying to understand how...

2-3% of what? Of the minimum margin requirement?

I've entered 'short selling' and didn't get back any results. LOL.

How about thinkorswim. Pretty good broker for stocks and options.

What if the long stock does not have SSF. Does it have to be paid for being borrowed? Since IB still charges interest for shorting it.

This is over 11% per month. Wow! What's the downside? Don't you need to sell SSF and buy stock to make profits? That's what I always thought.