Agreed about all the monday morning quarterbacking. OP's gains, if true as reported, are pretty amazing. Although I am certainly more interested...
TBH thats what I would personally do. But it goes back to the point, each investor is their own man and has their own opinions or expectations on...
Ok professor. When you invest in something you're either decisively bullish or bearish, or in some cases neutral/flat. And you make your bet...
lol. OP, this is your typical ET resident DB troll. FYI he deleted an earlier post that was fully intent on trolling you on the get go already....
The same reason why anyone makes a bullish bet with a call spread. You don't mean to tell people there are only some ways to make trades now are...
This is not a recommendation. If it was me, and I purchased DDD at $40 and now its $53.97. I will probably go out to Jan16'15 $45 strike put for...
Another way to do it is to buy protective puts. Say you are sitting on a healthy 5% or more gain. So you buy puts to protect your position at or...
Gotta factor in tax events. Say you don't want a cap gain that year, then you don't wana be in a position to be called away causing a sale or have...
A broker is allowed to enforce whatever margin they want. House rules. Don't forget the dotcom bubble era. Many brokers pretty much went to 100%...
Lets play guess the chart. I have no idea about the other ones, but the most left one looks like gold?
I didn't like any of the change, from monitors, to laptops. Used to love the 4:3. Then switched over to 16:10. And just last year switched to even...
I feel sorry for you, because so often I find ET posters can't read, or have poor awareness of whats going on. The result is you don't get your...
Its ridiculous. I don't think centrals banks should or will use these black boxes. They don't need to be 'plugged in' like all other HFT algos are...
At first youre going to hate it. Then you will start to like it. At least thats the case for me. Although, widescreen doesnt have much height for...
This thread may soon be outdone by someone else who asks "Can I trade futures with $500 account?". And then people will say "YES!" because you...
Again, are you on meds? I'm talking to the OP in general terms. Then in general terms I picked a common call spread as an example, and said...
Are you on meds? I've explained to you that the pattern day trader rule works with the same underlying logic as the accredited investor...
Do you even trade options? Thats just not true at all. You can goto assignment. Thats how you close out of a spread position and profit on the...
Exactly. I'm not a huge fan of spreads for that reason. but sometimes you need to do it. If the IV is really high for those momo names, it...
Talk to your broker about how the assignment works there. Often times they let you put it on because the risk is capped, and the margin used is...
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