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Another option is to open an account at a broker that allows for simulated trading. Think or Swim, Options House are two that come to mind that don't require a ton of money to fund an account. MM

Welcome to the forum. Am curious if you have a blog. Would be nice to learn how you trade. MM

You can check out Investopedia for basic buying of calls and puts. http://simulator.investopedia.com/Default.aspx?viewed=1 Used properly it can be a great tool to learn how options react to to the underlying. MM

/ I have the definitive answer to this question... ... but you'll have to wait till expiry day - I'll let you know then. / I look forward to the answer :) MM

Once you start to have the basics down, I would recommend that you borrow this book from the local library: "The Complete Guide to Option Selling" http://tinyurl.com/ygf5q8t That is the link to Amazon and it's 1st edition which provides the ability to look inside the book. There is a...

GoLAX - Thanks I will keep that in mind. Kind of like how I get Trade Ideas for free since I moved money over to Scottrade IRA. Free is good. MM

BTUD - I am starting to create models like I have for stocks. Amibroker is a very powerful software for creating trading strategies, scanning, and charting. It has served me well for years. But it is not for options, therefore I need to find something for options. Currently I have been...

Hi folks, Is there a way to scan for "over-priced" or premium rich options? Ones with a lot of Intrinsic value. By overpriced I mean the following: [Option Premimum - (Stock Price - Strike Price)] / Strike Price x 100 This is something that I would like to research and have no idea or...

Option911 - Mark, I get what you are saying. ramatrade - thanks for the link to optionslab. I am aware of and am starting to learn Samaosky's Options Oracle. dagnyt - Mark, I was not aware that call options would have a high IV when the market is crashing. I was under the...

Looking back at last March, which of the two ways to invest with options would have been better? 1) Buying a long dated ITM call? or 2) Buying a deep long dated OTM call? I am thinking of 6 month or longer options to have been purchased this last March. As I see it the advantage...

Damn, that can be very expensive. I know that Tradestation does not impose this type of fee. Another way to look at it is if you routinely have $100K short on average each night, it "could" cost you around $1650. For those IB account holders, is their any list of stocks for which...

Good points Sleuth. Is my math close to being correct. For a 20% overnight holding charge I would assume this is an annual rate so dividing it by 365 days and then multiplying that number by $1000 you get 54 cents. So for each $1000 of shorted stock held overnight you will get charged...

The time frame is quarterly, not monthly. The platform fee is $99 per month, if someone is doing 30 to 149 trades per quarter. So you could be doing 149 trades at $9.99 per trade and spend $1488 (over the 3 month period) in commissions. Should you not do at least 30 trades, the base...

angryangry, No that link is a shorted version of a longer link. Go to www.tinyurl.com to learn about how this free service will take very long urls and shorten them into something that is easier to post and use. Regards, MM

Investor... But don't you pay extra for limit orders? I thought I read somewhere a small fee was added onto limit orders, but could be wrong. Actually I like the ET Pro platform. But my needs changed as I started to become a high volume trader and determined it was in my best interest...

There is a free chat room which could serve to be a great place to hook up. Its at: http://www.dehtrader.com/live/ MM

Does Scottrade Elite cost anything? If not, download it and try it out.

Okay, I will bite. As far as I am concerned this is a silly question. Yes, at times you can (or so it would appear) move the price with a single contract. Albeit for a nanosecond. Any of the futures contracts trade enough volume that even if you did move them, they could be pushed...

Does everyone have Yahoo Instant Messenger? It's been a while since I used the conference feature, but it worked fine then. Now I believe they even allow voice. I do use the voice chat feature almost every day, one on one with different trader friends and find it so nice to have my...

Stock777 - thanks for the link to the img tag AngryAngry - In one of my earlier posts I provided the following link: http://tinyurl.com/37sjcb It brings up a page at the Etrade website which discusses how they handle and process orders. I just find it funny that they claim an "average"...