You need to be good enough to lobby (spend some 100k) to save you from loosing a billion :-) http://tdairy.ponnur.com
Stocks trade at high vol during earnings season and less vol during the rest. Given that they report earnings 4 times a year, with a bit of...
You can use options (straddles) to trade both ways and one will make good money if the market moves a lot in either direction....
1.5k is nothing compared to the knowledge you gained on the kind of trade you need to avoid :-). http://tdairy.ponnur.com
There are even bloggers posting trade history to blogs. You can find one at http://tdairy.ponnur.com
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