you've never spent five minutes on any serious options board without seeing this topic repeated many times. Options straddles are as old a trading...
not a hedge... a pure straddle. Big difference
... your $3,000 short account is now $0 while your $3,000 long account is $6,000 because price went +2 ticks far enough to wash the bid/ask...
c'mon mav... I'd expect more from you than that type of bush-league stupid talk. Notional value and control means less than nothing when it comes...
My point. Who cares what $$ they have or not? Wasting endless hours trying to compute anything else is exactly that... a waste of precious time =...
Yes, presumably the backer(s) have deep pockets and scaling up has much greater potential in the same block of time as an individual trying to...
There are all kinds of logical conclusions. Space does not permit listing them entirely. A few... intraday trading is more lucrative at certain...
you are asking a rhetorical question: the traders' obsession with ES and CL intraday isn't mine... it is the mass majority of traders out there....
Pure intraday trading for futures markets is a relatively new opportunity. Only since contracts went electronic has there been real potential...
Anyone who is actually trading this year realizes markets are different now, they've changed dramatically due to HFT domination and extreme...
how do you do that with <$25,000 account balance and pattern day-trade rules?
what kind of options, specifically?
I can save you from any further brain damage involved with this equation. If you are fully hedged a futures position, you are essentially...
human logic suggests one can place stops "outside" of random noise = key support & resistance which differs for every trade extensive...
"learning" to trade might take six months or several years... depending a whole lot on prevailing market conditions at the given times. back in...
Wrong about exactly what? The subject matter of this thread is based on the OP inquiring about validity of TST, others who have participated in...
the challenge with low vol = low range is, price moves plenty far enough to take out stops on the risk side but does not move far enough for...
imo with VIX levels the way they are for everything including 6E and CL, it would make more sense to think along the lines of swing trading versus...
For the record, I believe TST is a solid company who offer a genuine opportunity for traders to prove themselves and be funded with capital...
Today's ES range: 6.00 points = $300 per contract span Today's TF range: 12.00 index points low to high = $1,200 per contract span and then 9+...
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