An interesting observation on my calendar -- my Mar/Mar5 (quarterly) 144 SPY calendar just yawned. Virtually no change, with the move up in...
Let's see. How many traders are buying books, paying "tuition" to the market, and still blowing up their account. A "few books" is not the...
Back to the original question: I trade options: 1. It is the only strategy which can make money in a non-trending, choppy market for the...
Go with Dan.
I noticed a skew between the March and back month options in Bank of America. Not an earnings month, so what's going on? Perhaps something...
"Trade your way to financial freedom" by Tharp.
>adjustment In one of his webinars, Dan taught me something about horizontal spreads: after yield goes to 20-30%, tighten the stopout to fifty...
I suspect that you will have to wait an hour or two for someone to answer the phone. I tried the phone number once to see what it is like....
Listen to Simon on "American Idol". Maybe this is just not for you. Or, you need to do another style of trading -- long term vs day trading,...
When that happened to me, I learned to enter a stop order whenever I take on a position. And I try move it up ("tighten the noose") to protect...
This is a great market for calendars -- low IV and range bound market.
QQQQ -- three cent on Calendar spreads!
I suggest that you read Van Tharp, "Trade your way to Financial Freedom". Talks about how to develop a successful trading system. For...
ox willl have to find something else to brag about. tos is blowing them away.
Dan Sheridan talked abt GOOG earnings play yesterday in his webcast on CBOE.
I was told that even if a market does not support penny pricing for individual options, speads may be filled in pennies.
He says that he will not take just anyone into this service, implying that he has to turn people away. Hmmm......
Been doing options for years -- suggest you check out Dan Sheridan's webinars on cboe.com. The other webinars will also teach you the basics....
I consider Tharp's Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, ed 2, required reading for any trader. Cuts thru alot of the baloney. For example,...
Have been using TOS for nearly a year. Closed my account at optionsxpress and Alaron and put everything into TOS. I cannot imagine trading...
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