Recent Content by silent_tunes

  1. Order fills with paper trading

    This is a duplicate post. Please refer to the post with same title under "Order Executions" forum. My question is about whether paper trading...
    Thread by: silent_tunes, Nov 1, 2010, 7 replies, in forum: Options

  2. Order fills with paper trading

    I just posted a trade in my TOS paper trading account and it was filled. It was a SPY 114/115 bull call spread for a $0.88 debit (using options...
    Thread by: silent_tunes, Nov 1, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: Order Execution

  3. Whick broker will give you approval to trade spreads?

    They do have a "know your customer" questionnaire that asks for info about annual income, experience, net worth etc. After the second...
    Post by: silent_tunes, Oct 29, 2010 in forum: Options

  4. India economics. where does the money go?

    I normally prefer not to post on such philosophical issues as there are many different opinions and more than one person can be correct...buy any...
    Post by: silent_tunes, Oct 29, 2010 in forum: Economics

  5. Whick broker will give you approval to trade spreads?

    It ended when TDAmeritrade bought out Thinkorswim !!
    Post by: silent_tunes, Oct 28, 2010 in forum: Options

  6. Whick broker will give you approval to trade spreads?

    I am not sure if you understood my original post but anyway.... Most brokers, definitely TDA, have diff trading levels for trading options....
    Post by: silent_tunes, Oct 28, 2010 in forum: Options

  7. Whick broker will give you approval to trade spreads?

    I struck out a second time with TDA trying to get approval to trade spreads. In any case, their commission is too high if trading around 50-100...
    Thread by: silent_tunes, Oct 28, 2010, 29 replies, in forum: Options

  8. Successful strategies, holy grail and backtesting

    Also consider this about backtesting: as is familiar to anyone who has read a mutual fund prospectus "past performance does not guarantee future...
    Post by: silent_tunes, Oct 26, 2010 in forum: Strategy Building

  9. Successful strategies, holy grail and backtesting

    Thanks MGJ Of all the replies yours was at least a bit helpful; I did not think about the in sample/out of sample method. But after...
    Post by: silent_tunes, Oct 26, 2010 in forum: Strategy Building

  10. Successful strategies, holy grail and backtesting

    Post by: silent_tunes, Oct 25, 2010 in forum: Strategy Building

  11. Successful strategies, holy grail and backtesting

    No sir, my backtesting is most definitely NOT of the type "If I had bought GOOG in 1998" or "If I had bought MSFT in 1982" etc... I can prove...
    Post by: silent_tunes, Oct 25, 2010 in forum: Strategy Building

  12. Successful strategies, holy grail and backtesting

    I am not sure if this is the best forum but I will post anyway. It is okay if someone moves it to the appropriate forum. Let's say I have a few...
    Thread by: silent_tunes, Oct 25, 2010, 18 replies, in forum: Strategy Building