We actually have a battle of two markets. On the one hand, the SPX is in a perfectly tight and smooth uptrending channel, with daily closing...
cm69, I ran across your journal here and read it. I have to compliment you on your honesty along the way. You have reported the good,...
No I do not work for I.B., but I am willing to bet you if you ran a survey poll for traders with 4 or more years experience trading, at least 50%...
I looked up the Scottrade website and I noticed their commissions on options is $7.00 trade fee plus $1.25 per option contract. Most newby option...
I bought a Larry Williams Trading Course in 2000. The course was actually video's recorded from a multi-day live seminar. It contained several...
57 years old from Concord, CA. Been trading stocks and options almost a decade. For those of you debating about what constitutes a...
After almost a decade of stock trading, index option and stock option trading, this year, more than any other year that I have traded in...
I agree with staying out of short trades when the market is this bullish. In the last 4 months since early August (when the SPX had a...
Do you short the SPY (or buy SPY puts) when its overbought?, or do you only look for bullish opportunities when the SPY is in an uptrend? Jeff
Hi Ron, Like yourself, I trade the OEX daily and have for a number of years. (I also trade stock options.) I started out...
Hi JJ, I trade the OEX using pivots. This morning the OEX has blown through S1 (647.13) and is heading for S2 (644.61). I bought the...
Bben, I have been trading both stock options and index options since the 1990's. When I was a beginner, I did the same exact thing...
Hi D, I have been trading index options for several years and I believe you have made a wise choice to avoid trading them, they are a...
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