Why rush it? You're just switching from paper to live now. Take your first month slow, so try 1 or 2 IWM and see how things go. If it's working...
Well, I have a friend who was using him and he just told me that the sandp guy just canceled his "premium" room (where the live calls had to...
Might I inquire as to which broker that blotter is from? ThinkorSwim and IB are mighty distinctive, but I don't recognize that one.
If you mean that European options might allow you to sit through a move against you since they can't be exercised, I don't see what advantage that...
That seems a bit over-leveraged, doesn't it? Wouldn't 10 contracts on the RUT/SPY roughly equate to 100 contracts IWM/SPX? Why not start with 10...
Hopefully this is not intruding on this thread, but since it deals with CL futures, I thought I'd ask if somebody could give me a brief...
And here's the fill: BOT IWM 100 JAN 10 60 PUT @2.57 NYSE, IWM MARK 59.655 (I edit out my position sizes...fill message/format is from emails...
So here we go...I'm long some IWM puts with the goal of a short term breakdown. QQQQ, SPY, and IWM are all overbought, but QQQQ and SPY are in a...
Took a nice bunch of time off for the holiday and also revised my trading methods a bit. I've decided to downgrade my "Gooniverse" to a mere...
Gold is only valuable while there is still an infrastructure in place where it can be used as a proxy for other items. In an "Apocalyptic"...
I use covered calls in a 401k account (can't do spreads, buy straight calls/puts, etc). A couple of things I do to make the most of the covered...
Given that you actually have live results, it might be worthwhile to backtest your system on batches of data from similar market conditions and...
Two that I like are ERF and O. These pay a monthly dividend and have a semi-decent premium. They are, however, more speculative that your...
Interesting...I've always assumed they're mostly made up, sometimes by those trying to sell you something ("90% of options expire worthless!...
You know the type: -95% fail. -90% of options expire worthless -Markets trend 30% of the time. Etc, Etc, etc. Other than the options...
I would want to see how the system performs in as many market conditions as possible and the more trades you can make, the better. If you're...
You are basically trying to use a form of "collar" with a DITM LEAP as a substitute for the underlying. Perhaps do a search for strategies on...
He has multiple books on investing/real estate. I read one of his books (Rich Dad, Poor Dad) while traveling for business and it was rather...
I get that occasionally when I am running on either the demo server or my paper account. It seems to happen more in the Fri/Sat/Sun time frame, so...
Currently I'm using the IB datafeed, but I would like to build in provision to switch at a later date, just to keep things flexible. For a...
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