It's a little more complicated than that (one of the "not-so-obvious" schemes). The idea behind it is that some moron decided to make it legal to...
And exactly how do you profit from such a "straddle"?
I apologize if the irony in my first post in this thread was not expressed clearly enough. It's hard for me to do with typed words only...
Exactly my point.
It has been my experience that this is true in the overwhelming majority of all cases. But I have had counterexamples even in rather illiquid...
Things make sense perfectly if you just keep in mind that the securities markets are setup to do one thing: Nickle and dime individuals to death...
stkcowboy: Do I understand you correctly in that your broker allows you to have a long and a short position in the same stock at the same time in...
Today I had a trade busted, and now I am wondering how exactly that (stupid and unnecessary) process works and if or how a retail trader can...
I believe in the market. I believe in me. I use-a options to a-hedze the rixsx in my porfowlio. Because it's all about belence.
magi1975, YOU WILL GET KILLED! just kidding... I personally prefer the tick chart, but I plot a 4 minute, a 9 minute and an 18 minute EMA...
rrisch, do you speak German? You seem to think like someone who would. Concerning your original question, I have wondered myself for several...
I have had only good experiences with TMBR so far, always instantaneous. HOWEVER, with supersoes a situation where my order seems to be "looked...
I would tend to agree with all this, however, you do not really need Level II to gather all the information you are talking about. Isn't it...
I have noticed that a couple of traders on here focus on just one Nasdaq stock, which often times is trading at a relatively high per share price...
If you post an inside bid or offer you can get an idea of an upper boundary for your quote delay (if you can identify your bid/offer on your...
I think I heard that on CNBC a few weeks ago. The host should have just responded "Interesting.... WROOOONG! ...but interesting". The QQQs are...
I have been having the same problems for a couple of days now. There is no problem with my ISP either, but I have been getting lots of bulletins...
The following is from a JAVA program that is working for me: tempContract.symbol = "ES"; tempContract.secType = "FUT";...
Thank you, but AFAIK you only sacrifice security in my setup, not stability.
Thank you for explaining that to me. I have always wonderes why such a lot of people trade the QQQs. You have made some good points.
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