jrl: Well, I would rather have $100 winners every day than a $10,000 winner once a year--or whenever. Yes, the maximum potential profit for...
Hi Chris: As I said in my reply to Donna, my goals for the trade were more educational for myself, with modest profit goals. I did not have a...
Hi Wayne: I've been studying spreads, and have paper traded a couple. They both went to maximum loss within two days. The surest way for a...
Hi luh: At present, I don't have authorization from my broker for naked option writing. Seems they don't see the risk potential as the same,...
Hi Osorico: I had thought about that. The first covered calls we did, in the Fall of 04, were to sell calls on two stocks we were holding as...
vhehn: Yeah, I'll just let it expire. I had that on my sheet as one of the strategies, but failed to put it in my first post. Too worried...
Hi Donna: My problem is that, in our (my wife and I trade together) swing trading, we have a terrible record of picking stock direction. Our...
Thank you all the the replies. I'm having computer problems at home tonight. I'll post specific replies from work tomorrow. NDG
Good afternoon Elite Traders: Dipping a timid toe into the options market, I've got several covered calls going, all of which will expire...
On Monday-Tuesday I came to the point of view that rubberbyrd was right, and the 500 was in the midst of an orderly pullback to at least meet its...
As another said, why do you think the market is ignoring oil? Because it doesn't move in the opposite direction of the price of oil? That means...
Thanks, everyone, for taking time to respond. I wound up just keeping the short puts, and so in my paper trade records I took the assignment at...
Hello Traders: The news last night said that the Irani government moved billions of dollars of assest out of European banks Friday--or maybe it...
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