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I was probably being too specific but in an IRA at IB you can sell naked puts but with margin requirements just as I described. i.e. same as long stock

The margin required for selling naked options is generally the same as buying the underlying. So theoretically one could do this without a margin account at all as long as you have enough cash to cover the max loss. e.g. You sell a put on 1 $70 put for 0.60 on QQQ @72.58. The max risk is...

Is that a yarmulke on your dog? :cool:

The midnight rally crew is still active. :cool: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47055

Premiums being excessively light present opportunities just like excessively fat premiums do. If options are cheap you buy them outright.

The chartgame.com site was much harder and appears to use real historical data.

That's a valid question but I don't know how to answer it exactly. I used basic PA for entry and exit. I'd look for sudden momentum and wait for a dip. Or look for range and consolidation breakouts and wait for a dip. If recent support or resistance was broken after entry I'd exit...

I also get these routine IB emails every year. Just make sure that when you get emails like that you log in from your own bookmark; don't click email links. This is a common ploy to steal login credentials. I get emails with fake PayPal links all the time wanting me to click the link and...

I've been tearing through the single malts over the last couple of years. Got another Laphroig tonight and I can't wait to try it.

When you get assigned on a short option I believe they'll exercise your long to meet the obligation of the short assignment. In the case of a bull call spread you'd only be assigned if the market is above the short strike in which case you're at max profit for the spread. In other words as...

I played the metals game through July and finally got the hang of it. All I did was let my winners run and cut my losers early. Surely real trading isn't that easy, right?

Coin toss and Martingale.

My god back when I was a kid back in the 60's I broke my leg bicycling on a Friday night. I had a looooong wait before being seen due to all the broken wrists/arms in front of me from skateboards. I do remember those old skateboards. They had non-steerable steel wheels bolted to the bottom...

Just my opinion, but I'd steer clear of pistol grips and other "tacticool" features. I use a stock 12 ga Mossberg 500 with an 18.5 barrel for HD. Well I haven't "used" it yet, but it's what's available. Also, the ammo I've stocked is #00 buck in 2-3/4" shell. They fire 9 large lead pellets...

You may very well damage your hearing but it's better than being dead.

Suppose you get 1 trade every 5 minutes and you're looking at 1 minute bars. The bid/ask might be changing every 10 seconds but it doesn't matter. Every minute a new bar will be generated with the open and close equal to the previous bar's close until a new trade changes this. It sounds...

Options are relatively thinly traded compared with their underlying. Some of my option positions are so far OTM that they might get 1 or 2 trades/day but the bid/ask moves up and down constantly. I'm really sure that price bars have to have > 0 volume to be anything other than a "-" i.e. an...

Aren't the bars made up of trades, not quotes? In other words, the quotes may have been changing during the bar period but there may not have been any trades.

Here's forexite data all bundled up nicely in consolidated zip files: http://www.forextester.com/data/datasources.html I should point out that forexite data is crap.

My understanding was that the IV skew is the same for stock indexes and stocks. i.e. IV is higher for lower strikes than the corresponding (same number of strikes OTM) higher strikes. This is due to perceived risks of price crashes in the stock market. Commodities are what have the opposite...