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    Optionetics: Good or Bad ?

    Here is a website where you can get some educational material http://www.onlinetradingstore.com/index.html I personally have purchased some of the self study courses and found them informative. To echo the others who have posted here. There is no quick/easy road to success. Because if...
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    Options Software

    Check out Option Money. I subscribed and it is about 30 a month and I have been really pleased.
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    Making money with calls/puts

    There are a couple of issue in the directional trading of just going long an option. First, you have to time the market correctly on direction and amount of movement. Second, you risk too much with this strategy as opposed to doing a spread. However, with those two things said I do like the...
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    Interesting article

    another good take on the option selling strategy would be to know how many options were sold and then bought back at a percentage decrease. For example, sold for 1000 and bought back for 800. The reason this is more interesting in my mind is because it is rare to hold and option to expiration.
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    LEAPS strategies

    I aggree on the Calendar spreads. I am trading of the QQQs and DIA
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    What is your stop loss strategy?

    In trying to develop a good strategy I have tried both, but prefer the dollar amount.
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    CFA candidate wondering about Series 7

    Is the material you are learning in studying for this designation help your trading?
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    Questions about Option Money

    Hello, I was wondering if anyone out there is using the Option Money software? If you are what are your thoughts about it. Joe
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    Form 1099 - Options Reporting

    since I started trading I have for the most part traded only options and they were always reported by every brokerage I have used
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    Stops on covered call positions

    I am currently trading cc's, but I am concerned about the possible price decline in the stock. I was wondering if anyone had any advice about how/where to set your stop loss on this type of position.
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    Safe Strategy?

    @greensail. I just started subscribing to terrystips also. How sucessful have you been with his strategies and have you tried them on any other indices?
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    Merry Christmas to all the ET option traders!!!!!

    As a relative newbie I will also be posting more in 2004. I just hope that we can learn from one another and be beyond prosperous in the coming year. Here is hoping we have to pay the TAX man a lot in 2005, because of all the money we are going to make in 2004.
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    Covered Call writing

    I totally agree you about the strategy, because I am doing the same. My problem is the exit strategy. Usually I set the position up to be called away, but in the case that the stock moves against me I am trying to determine when I should start looking for the exit.
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    Covered Call writing

    Ok. My problem with this strategy is that I have had a few stocks move against me and I am trying to determine if I should set a stop at the stock price - premium. Also in learning to do this to generate a consistent profit should I look to make 30%< and then close the position or should I...
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    Covered Call writing

    canyonman00, I am now implementing this strategy and I am trying to work out some of the details of the strategy. Basically where do you set your stops on the stock and what percentage do you set as a goal on the options. Joe
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    Question about a Job Offer

    think about in terms of your own goals and if taking that job moves you closer or further from them.
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    Options Courses

    Hello Dollars, I have been trading for awhile now and I am still follow the path you described, but I am looking at this as just another component of the education.
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    Options Courses

    Keith, I am glad to her that. Based on some of the objectives I have set for myself I realize that I need to shrapen my trading skills. The problem is everyone talks about having the "answer" to trading profitably. I recognize that as marketing. That was the reason for the question...
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    Options Courses

    Keith, I took a look at the website and it looks interesting. I have been receiving a lot of advertisements on the educational stand point of trading and I am curious how this company in your opinion what sets this company apart from others besides price. How will the develop the skills I...
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    Trading for Income or Wealth?

    Personally, I am treating trading as the vehicle to wealth. If you look at what you can earn by trading, without having to find customers, you can finance any other venture you want.
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