Good options daytrading stocks...

Quote from RichardRimes:

actually I don't have a problem with them, perhaps its because I've had a lot of practice with the SPX MM's! It does get dicy if you are far OTM and trying to roll a put or call...but so far it has been easier than trading the SPX options . Just have to keep an eye on your margin and greeks.

Also CD anyone can trade and make money (on futures options) on less than 25K...I deliberately keep less than that in an account and pull the cash out on a regular basis to keep it small.
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deliberately keep less in.. hmmm.. are you short so much vol it could more then blow ya out in that account? haha jk.. i wanna trade options on vix futures to be honest..
 
Gotta love some bidu... A friend of mine made 500 percent in that stock by buying it and then he started trading options expiration on it lost thousands on it...

the funny thing is he told me in order to play in options you have to have deep pockets.. i'm thinking.. yeah.. because one options contract gives you the exposure of 100 shares of stock for sometimes huge percentages under the cost of actually owning it.. so the guy trades thousands and thousands of dollars in call options giving him a notional value of like 250,000 dollars.. the lies in leverages.. there are so many of them.. hell i did almost the same thing when i started out.. then to shock you a little more i sold credit spreads on my entire account to make up the loss.. radical.. i still wonder how i'm trading today..
 
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deliberately keep less in.. hmmm.. are you short so much vol it could more then blow ya out in that account? haha jk.. i wanna trade options on vix futures to be honest..
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I CAN get blown out...no JOKE!! That is why I'm very careful and its taken a lot of trial, error and money to get where I'm at. VIX is interesting but not my cup of tea. ES has been my fav ...just where I'm comfortable. Have tried YM NQ CL and NG ...but for me its been ES that I come back to. Since I've been trading the ES options there has been a good growth in volume esp in the weekly's. I'm sure one of these days the gravy train will grind to a halt...but as long as I can make a little cash I'm still riding the rails.
 
do it to it... i'll have to look at ES options.. so i can do a little day trading.. i have some strategies i can use for a quick small percent on limited risk flys and such ..
 
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