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Please help me understand this. Theoretically, VIX is supposed to reflect high volatility in both directions. But it seems that VIX only goes up mostly when there is fear of market drops, not when there is anticipation of large market rises. What gives? Thanks.

Thanks for that info. I was hoping there might be a book just about it, but I guess not.

Is there a book written specifically about this? Thanks.

I have a good income (lower than yours), good savings (lower than yours), and an excellent credit score. I get loads of pre-qualified loans and pre-qualified credit card offers in the mail. In a postcard, Ford recently said I was pre-qualified up to $30k if I go buy a new model. My...

I get these notices with more than half the stocks I short at IB. I got a notice today, then I looked at the IB shortable shares list and they show they have more than 350,000 shares available. The stock still has the shortable light green indicator. Is this so frequent at other brokers...

This is my thinking when it comes to my business/personal computer. The medium range is the price sweetpoint. And this is also probably true for many traders who do not use terribly intensive trading software. However, there is plenty of hardcore financial analysis software that works...

I have a computer with Vista and one with XP. Vista works pretty much fine, but you will likely find some technical difficulty at some point. The way I see it, is all that Vista offers for the majority of users is a bit of eye-candy. You trade that for some stability from XP. Might as well...

I had strange IB behavior today too. I placed a short sale on a light green stock with a limit below the highest bid. It just wasn't filled for a few minutes, even when there were several sales that took place at a price higher than my ask. It eventually filled when I cut the total shares...

If you can make 10% per day on an account, why don't you compound that in to millions (assuming it doesn't scale well past a certain dollar level) in short time? Why would you only have $10k in an account to trade after all your success instead of keeping most of the money in there to...

How come nobody has mentioned the amount of capital we're talking about? Some kid with a couple thousand dollars has 0 chance of making $500 a day off that. If you have a couple million, you can get that from your bond interest, maybe throw some covered calls in for some excitement. I...

Or do I have to liquidate the positions, get a check written to me, open the IB account, and deposit the funds? Thanks, Daniel

IV's are supposed to be indicators of the actual value of the ETF's underlying assets. However, it appears that they can sometimes stray far away from that. For example, take PZA on November 20th and the 21st. Its IV had a 15% swing down, but the actual NAV and price of the ETF had very...

Is it deducted/added from your total profit/loss (as it should be)? Or do you have to pay it as an additional fee that isn't deducted (as it possible under an arbitrary tax policy)? Thanks. Daniel

Not intended to be rude, but wondering, what makes you think you can make money trading? Do you have a strong financial background? Have you had a knack for numbers since you were a kid? Do you understand how to at least theoretically beat a variety of Las Vegas games (i.e. blackjack...

Those LEH puts turned out nicely.

I'm trying to understand how trading with so much leverage works. Don't fairly common down ticks completely wipe you out?

Why would a newbie trader want 50 times leverage? Are you looking to enter a casino?

Thank you for the tip, but that only provides static data. I wasn't clear in my question. I need data that is updatable. My current setup is updatable, but it's not very pretty.

I am just getting started with trading software and would appreciate some help with my basic need. I just need certain quotes in an excel file which I can then use to manipulate. Yahoo data is fine if that works. I currently have an adhoc setup where I have various portfolios in yahoo...

Are you sure it's treated as earned income? If earned income, they get extra screwed as they would have to pay 3% medicrap with no limit on top of income tax. I'm guessing it gets treated as normal pass-through income from a partnership, which is taxed at the marginal income tax rates, but...