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    What is this called?

    It is called synthetic long underlying and yes it is widely used. You can also do it in different ratios. You can sign up with your broker to trade option and claim that you know options and then accept the risk. Based on your question, I recommend you study a little bit more and do some paper...
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    Are girls better traders?

    That is not true. Females like to buy and return the next day. Don't believe me? Go to the retail stores return desk. "Dude Seriously it is totally grose" Based on this habit, females will just increase liquidity in the market.:)
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    Commissions on Options Trades

    It was definitely sent. I saw that the bid size was increased by 100 after my order.
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    Commissions on Options Trades

    You are right but as def humbly mentioned, IB claims is "one of the bests" in industry. That suggests that there a few good brokers. You have to feel good about your broker. If you have a good broker but you always feel that your are being cheated, that won't work. IB is not for everyone. IB's...
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    Commissions on Options Trades

    Good advice . $0.7 plus about $0.04 is almost the max that you get charged by IB unless you hit the bid or ask. To close your positions at 1 cents you don't pay any commision in IB. An eye opening experience that has happened to me many times: I put an order to cover 100 contracts of an...
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    Two books for sale

    I have the following two books for sale: Market Evaluation and Analysis for Swing Trading High Performance Options Trading with CD Both are like new and no highlights. I am selling both for $40 free shipping. If you are interested, PM me. Only US.
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    Trading time on YHOO

    Rumors are getting hot and heavy again. Check out YHOO today. Big up in this down day. Maybe wise to get wet a little.
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    News

    Now I get it. You need insider information:D
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    Trading Assistants $8,000 a year

    Hi Oilfxpro, Just out of curiousity, 1-why you cannot automate your trade? 2-How are you going to inform your employees about a trade? By Skype? email? 3- How many employees would you need? 100? why you can not just get one and ask him to trade in the quatity of 100? and pay him half of...
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    Facebook IPO

    Buy YHOO http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Summary-Box-Yahoo-aims-patent-apf-1748295037.html?x=0
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    Trading time on YHOO

    I am back into YHOO again as of yesterday. It seems that the selling pressure is gone and we are going to see a strong reversal. Target is $17 but short term profit taking is also recommended. Rumor is that negotiations is atill underway.
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    An IB API question

    Thanks. I just signed up with the group.
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    An IB API question

    I am trying to learn IB API interface and test and modify some of my strategies. I can download historical data through Excel DDE in IB. I also use scale trader in TWS for my trades. Now my question is how I can feed the loaded data to the existing scaletrader in IB for backtesting? If yes, how...
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    Trading time on YHOO

    There are many possible buyers. Alibaba as buyer to buy its own stake from YHOO fell off. YHOO is still a profitable company with great patents and big stakes in Asia and Japan
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    Trading time on YHOO

    Call 16 for Feb 17 is still traded at 4 cents. i believe some big traders are preparing for a big short squeeze. Today it was mostly margin liquidation.
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    Trading time on YHOO

    Very defensive trade. I am expecting a bounce from day low. Asian deal was not a done deal and market overreacted when the deal fell off.
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    Trading time on YHOO

    YHOO is at 15.97 now. Time to load up again at any price below 16. It will go to 16.30 and above this week even if there is no deal.
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    Trader while having a full time job- A TAX question

    I am not sure how much expenses he has. I believe he is pissed that he should write a big check and say good bye to 30% of his profit while his eyes were glued to the monitor for thw whole year. I will ask him about the expenses. It should not be that high I suppose.
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    Trader while having a full time job- A TAX question

    Thanks everyone for the responses.
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    Trader while having a full time job- A TAX question

    Recently a friend of mine who is full time employed and has a good salary asked me a tax question which I am not sure I gave him the right response so if anyone who has a better response, I would appreciate it. He has a full time 100K job and he is also trading a lot. About10 trade on average...
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