I'm running Excel 97 and am wondering if MS has increased the number of columns on a spreadsheet in Office XP's Excel 2002? In Excel 97 the...
Don't bother with them. Position myself before the report comes out. Try to catch the move as I see it develop just after the report comes...
Bull Put spread. It seems all debit verticals are no better than just buying the call or put b/c the appreciation of the option you sold eats into...
Do many of you leg into spreads or do you submit it as spread order? If you leg, do you do the longs first so you don't get whacked on the margin...
Okay, I was really caught off guard by this. It didn't cost me anything b/c I stayed out today which was kind of stupid b/c the set up I was...
Can anyone shed some light on how expiration Friday can potentially affect the market for the underlying? Thanks a lot.
I've been paying attention to the ATM, Just ITM & and Just OTM Dow options. What has been really confusing me is that the DJX and the options on...
I've seen the term Futures Commission Merchant used for some brokers. How are these firms different from non FCM brokers? I believe IB is NOT...
I have a Dell PII 333. It works fine becuase it has 384 MB of RAM. I'd like to add a second monitor. Can I just buy another video card and stick...
I guess I should have understood this when I saw REFCO in big letters on the TradesStationSecurities account forms. Their ES, NQ, YM, etc...
I'm about to install IB's TWS software and am wondering which version to go with: stand alone or browser based. BTW, my computer is a little...
I was trading the ES today and tried shorting on the dips but the market would rally back--I lost, but could have lost a lot more if I didn't get...
I've got a TradeStations futures account, but haven't traded it yet. I'm primarily looking to day trade or even scalp. What firm do you use and...
I am not looking for anyone to tell me the Holy Grail, but if you have any advice on possible systems to start out with, time frames to use, and...
I see a lot of talk about the ES and NQ. Is there a reason why the Dow E-Mini's don't seem to be traded here as much? Do you guys have some...
Let's say you were long an unhedged stock portfolio on 9/11/01 (as many of us were). After the US markets were shutdown, what would have been some...
I know the option you sell helps finance the one you bought, but you are also giving up a large chunk of your upside. Doing these w/ a week or...
Do you think Level II quotes are helpful/worth the cost for: 1- day trading tying to get <=$.25? 2- day trading going after a bigger move?...
I imagine there is a plethora of orders of all types entered before the market opens. How does this hodge-podge of market, limit, stop, stop...
DeMark and McMillan have written that options may make good vehicles for day trading. But I look at the spreads and liquidity of even the...
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