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Ive been using covered strangles recently. This article explains the strategy. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/spicing-up-options-trades-2010-01-04

The spreadsheet works great thanks. For my info Can someone tell me how to import the data from MSn or yahoo into a spreadsheet. Even better is it possible to import the data once and then have it updated allbeit with a 20 min delay?

That is just what i needed. Thanks very much for sending the link, really appreciated.

I am struggling to find a good list of ETFs with full descriptions. I always used ETFconnect but they are now a mutual fund list. Does anyone have a suggestion or possibly an excel spreadsheet containing them please. thanks

It will never happen. The US penalise foreigners who buy property, they dont encourage them. I am a British citizen and have a vacation home in Florida. Purchased in 1999. My property taxes then were $8000 as were my neighbours (who are American). Today my property taxes are $20,000 and my...

I can assure you my thread is not a fraud!! I will trade another week or so at that price and get it moved to a lower level. As ive said i like the platform and the service. I averaged 186 lots per day last week in the ES. So it is an issue for surethanks for the info.

Just an update. I contacted my broker and they dropped my fee to $5 per r/t. While i accept that i could probably get as low as $3.50 i feel the service that i receive is worth the additional. I just wanted to thank the posters here for the advice , it saved me a fortune going forward...

This book is a must. http://www.amazon.com/Reminiscences-Stock-Operator-Illustrated-Marketplace/dp/0471678767/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226848695&sr=8-2

The execution and reliability of my broker is very good. I would rather not flame my broker until i have spoken to them on monday and given them the chance to reduce my fees.

I just totalled all my trades from friday. I bought a total of 84 ES and Sold a total of 84 ES/ My brokerage fee in total was $588 Thats $3.50 per contract and $7 rt right??

unless i really dont understand it i am sure i am paying $3.50 per contract. I just looked again at my statement. As an example i bought 6 /ES fee was $21. I then sold 6 /ES and the fee charged again was $21 AM i confused?

Many thanks. Much appreciated.

I am definately paying $7 RT. Just looked at my first trades on Friday. I bought 5 Es and then Sold 5 Es. My com charge including all exchange fees etc was $17.50 on the buy and $17.50 on the sell. I am happy with my brokers execution but i definately will talk to them on monday re my coms.

I am paying $3.50 per lot per trade. So if i buy 2 contracts and sell 2 contracts i pay a total of $14.00 (3.50*4) What should i pay?

I am averaging 200 ES contracts a day for the last few months. I am paying $3.50 per contract. Is it time to renegotiate or is that a fair price? thanks

thanks very much.

Holiday on monday are the us markets open?

That is the most irresponsible post i have seen on this board (and there have been some awful ones). Total stupidity.

Unless i have missread your post i think its back to front. This latest move in the dollar higher is fantastic news for owners of US real estate from overseas. Uk investors have made more than 10 pct just in currency last month.

i use the Thinkorswim platform for fx on my mac. I also run xp via parallels. I partitioned 20gb for my xp side and run trading platforms via parallels .