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    Where to go to learn options???

    This site has many interesting articles and educational materials. It focuses on learning options through risk graphs. http://www.optionstar.com/intro/intro1.html
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    TLT during inflation

    TLT which is mostly 20+ yr US treas bonds has been yielding 4% and hovering around 90. If inflation were to hit the US, would TLT go down and their yield go up ?
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    Black Scholes Equation

    Optionstar has free black scholes valuations for options and option spreads. http://www.optionstar.com
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    Options instead of underlying

    you could buy a 100 put and sell a 95 put risk $22 to make $480 per contract www.optionstar.com
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    HPT's ER2 Journal

    HPT.. I am watching ER2 now with IB's book trader. Is there something you look for in it for a signal ? Does the histogram help you? Do you look at bid ask sizes ? Thanks! esu2
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    Apple Earnings play

    is this the butterfly you are referring to ?
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    Apple Earnings play

    fly.. can you elaborate ? sell 140 calls... and then what ?
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    Apple Earnings play

    why go out so far to jan 09..? this jul 08 looks even better
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    Apple Earnings play

    Here is another risk graph for this... Nice spread... lots of room for profit !
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    HPT's ER2 Journal

    Great trades.. Are you trading the trend or counter trend ? You are risking about .5 to make 1pt in the er2 ?
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    Intraday trading of equities on short time-frames

    VERY INTERESTING CONCEPTS. JUST A FEW QUESTIONS BELOW.. THANKS ESU2
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    AHG - Profitable Strategy for Struggling Traders

    TraderSavros, Nice commentary.. When you say $45 risk.. do you mean that your inital stop is a little more than 2 nq pts ? Do you have a different stop for each car ? thanks
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    IB does not send out monthly PAPER statement, what if some thing happens to you?

    from what I remember, tax statements can only be printed out in the acct mgt screen. There are NO yearly tax statements mailed to you. So if you got hit by a milk truck.. There IS a good chance that the account will be unclaimed.
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    IB does not send out monthly PAPER statement, what if some thing happens to you?

    This is certainly entertaining. Without being a conspiracy theorist.. What does IB and other brokers do with unclaimed accounts ? I can see how it would be to their advantage to not have monthly paper statements.
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    Excel DDE for IB's TWS API problem

    options data is missing for me.. stocks data is there
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    AHG - Profitable Strategy for Struggling Traders

    Since its obvious, do you mind sharing it with me ? thanks spend another week REREADING the thread it's obvious from the chart you missed the obvious [/B]
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    AHG - Profitable Strategy for Struggling Traders

    closer look at my morning entries.. what would tell you to avoid these trend entries ?
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    AHG - Profitable Strategy for Struggling Traders

    Great, So your telling me my 1st day back in trading after 1 yr is one of the worst days to trade this month?! Spent about a week reading this thread and really like the strategy. But, how do you avoid stuff like this ? Anek, I can vouch for you since I've seen you trade live...
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    AHG - Profitable Strategy for Struggling Traders

    When I look at the HL/HH & LH/LL trend patterns compared to yesterday's (which worked), I see little or no difference in the drift or candles. kidPW, what trades did you do today? thanks QUOTE]Quote from kidPWRtrader: Look at the candles. All sorts of weird closes in all sorts of...
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    AHG - Profitable Strategy for Struggling Traders

    Yes, today is a chop so far.. What would have told you this before hand ?
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