I guess I'm looking at trades from the underlying price-action instead of IV. Seems that the "cause" is the underlying price and the "effect" is...
How about good-looking AND serves your purpose and helps you trade for profit all in one? Things don't have to be either/or...
Yeah, they were partially responsible for things getting as bad as it did once the snowball started rolling downhill, but the Fed didn't start it....
So are you saying I should sell OTM straddles then? Take advantage of stagnating prices and just collect the premiums?
I shot myself in the foot and limited my gains in the recent cocoa kamikazi dive by setting up the following spread on 7/10: 2-long Sep-1750...
I'm sickened that Ferrari sold out in licensing their name & logo to such crap. There's also a laptop with nice carbon-fibre finish: [img]...
Yeah, scaling is actually the opposite of averaging-down. Let's say a stock is dropping and you buy more to lower your average-cost. And it...
Huh??? Isn't the CLOSE what happens when the STOP is executed?
Hmm... doesn't look like IB has coffee & cocoa which I trade a lot... :(
I like the AVG antivirus package. Much more trim memory footprint than McAcfee or Norton and doesn't bring your computer to a crawl when it's...
It's a strange test really. Most of it is options, but once you get licensed as a stockbroker and work in a firm, you'll deal with options maybe...
Is the trailing-stop an order with the markets? Or is it a function of the software that continually sets a new stop order and cancels the old one...
Well, I think there's a difference between short-term "losing" which is part of the game, vs. long-term "failure". This is what I think...
Thanks for the suggestion. :) I was planning on moving my account once I built up enough capital to qualify for the more inexpensive outfits....
I would also look at MACD and RelativeStrength-14 as well...
I'm using PFG and commissions are $25/roundturn. But they ended up nickel & diming me misc. fees up to about $32. Seems the best I could find for...
Ok, looks like I'm safe. Corn closed at 237 , so I won't be exercised. I'll wait for it to post soon. Thanks :)
Hi folks, I've got a question on how short OTM options are credited. Are they automatic or do I still have to explicitely buy the options back to...
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