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to kurga: If you are (want to be) succesful trader, you should never guess, you should do math all the time. Excel helps a lot... Three screenshots from my Excel show the math behind my assumtions. If you want to have our own investors / be advisor / provide signals, you should be careful about...

to kmgilroy89: With $5K of your own capital it is not possible to take you seriously. U need to show that u can make it on your own, so you should find your investors/sponsors, borrow money, or make money somewhere and increase your trading account to at least $50K, or maybe $200K. It is easy...

Cash forex... 1. Long Kansas wheat -> -$200K 2. Short Milling wheat -> we suddenly have +183K EUR (equivalent +$200K in time of enter) in cash on our account 3. FX trade selling 183 K EUR and buying 200K USD (EUR/USD) -> we have 0K EUR and 0K cash balance change Lets assume, that EUR becomes...

No, I do not use such tactics...

to anthony: So you are long put OTM options... you can just "lapse" them during last trading day, or let them expire worthless. If you are not able to close your long option position, it just means, that there is nobody interested in buying them for the price you request. Thats all. I would...

BTW You can be assigned any time even if option you have sold is not ITM. Only probability of assignment is lower with OTM options... When delta is closer to 1 (-1), probability increases... Plus there are special situations like dividends. Of course this is not true for European style options...

Yes, I have such software with real time capabilities... You can write it quite easily using VBA and Excel for example - there are tons of tutorials on YouTube.

I meant it in good way, trying to be usefull. You will evaluate it yourself maybe after few years. With DD broker you always have worse spread than with other types of brokers even if it looks same at first glimpse. It is up to you to do research. Three level verification with security tokens...

to wwatson1: Do u know difference between these types of FX brokers and what type of broker/account you have? 1. Market Maker (MM = DD = Dealing Desk) 2. ECN 3. STP (NDD, DMA) If I am correct, Oanda is DD broker (you should google it), so from my point of view it is very unprobable that you...

to wwatson1: Hopefully u have not been trading with MM (market maker) / DD (dealing desk) type of broker / account. Otherwise it is extremly difficult to make any reasonable money. There was one screenshot publicly available, with settings of price freeze, price manipulation in chart, slippage...

Hi! I have superawesome experience! $$$ :cool: $$$ BTW If you want others to talk about their experience, maybe it would be nice from you to describe your experience at first.

No, u do not need to have any official education at all... what is the point of this question?

Since VXX is constructed from VIX Futures, it is possible to very precisely emulate VXX price from 2004...

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From my experience regarding CPUs: I had trouble with AMD CPUs in past - overheating under 100% load - calculations which took nonstop several days. Short term 100% loads were OK, but heavier calculations were not possible, or I had to have case opened = too much noise... Also electricity...

to Skyline: -------------------------- Ok, thanks. I'm still unsure. If I go with 2 PC,s what spec would be good for the trading PC? Is trading software optimized for 6 cores or will 4 be enough? Is a consumer grade CPU adequate or do I need to go Xeon? Tom - could you indicate what graphics...

Depends on what you need... I have 6x LCD, 6 core, 48gb ram... beside all trading work, gaming is OK on this machine too :D BTW Graphic cards for gaming are actually very silent if they are not used for games. So I almost can not hear fans even if I am gaming. One important experience of myself...

To make money on guys who do not understand :D :D

to Ron Jon: I will give concrete example. If we write (sell) 60 Call Sep14 VTR and buy 60 Put Sep14 Call VTR, then this is called synthetic short VTR stock position. Risk graf will be basicaly same as shorting VTR itself.

Retirement account? I do not trade retirement account, people around me do not trade retirement accounts - no one. We are all active traders. Why does he trade both FAS&FAZ? 1. I dunno if he still trade it. 2. He has traded it as pair if I remember well (FAS hedged by FAZ) and assumed that...