Recent Content by tvgram

  1. WANTED: OptionVue 5 Software

    be careful about buying a license to OptionVue 5 because it will not be worth all that much now that they have released OptionVue 6 - and it costs...
    Post by: tvgram, Jan 13, 2009 in forum: Trading

  2. Paper trading options

    Try OptionVue (www.optionvue.com). You can get the trial of the new OptionVue 6 at no charge now, and the trial includes their BackTrader data....
    Post by: tvgram, Jan 13, 2009 in forum: Options

  3. The Best Work on Options Ever Written

    It seems like this thread is not that useful form anyone looking for a new book to read, and I have I have never seen one book that covers it all....
    Post by: tvgram, Apr 3, 2008 in forum: Options

  4. Options Mentoring

    I did go to one of John's full day seminars in New York a couple years ago. He does trade on a daily absis himself and managing money for others...
    Post by: tvgram, Apr 3, 2008 in forum: Options

  5. Our First Ever GREEN BUDGET

    Well, I guess that is to balance out the recent decision to allow increased logging in our largest national forest:...
    Post by: tvgram, Feb 4, 2008 in forum: Economics

  6. Forecast volatility

    You are definitely correct that forecasting future volatility is the key to modeling option positions. While it may be true that statistical...
    Post by: tvgram, Oct 26, 2007 in forum: Options

  7. Long term OTM vs. short term ITM Call options?

    The expected return displayed already takes that into account. First, there is the shift along the vol skew curve. By that I mean that if the...
    Post by: tvgram, Oct 25, 2007 in forum: Options

  8. Long term OTM vs. short term ITM Call options?

    I thought it might also be helpful to look at a Matrix of all the call option on the SPY showing their Deltas. It may seem that the trade...
    Post by: tvgram, Oct 25, 2007 in forum: Options

  9. Long term OTM vs. short term ITM Call options?

    I decided to run the scenario through my software to see what it says would be the best call options to purchase f you expect a relatively big...
    Post by: tvgram, Oct 25, 2007 in forum: Options

  10. Can you trade options in small and micro cap stocks?

    There are about 3,050 stocks and ETFs that currently trade options, and many of them are smaller cap stocks (not really micro cap for the most...
    Post by: tvgram, Oct 23, 2007 in forum: Options

  11. Short put = covered call in theory but in trading ...

    Now I used the same ETF for Emerging Markets (Symbol: EEM), with the same positions: a covered call selling an ATM call in December and a short...
    Post by: tvgram, Oct 23, 2007 in forum: Options

  12. Short put = covered call in theory but in trading ...

    Using the current market on the ETF for Emerging Markets (Symbol: EEM), I analyzed a covered call selling an ATM call in December and a short ATM...
    Post by: tvgram, Oct 23, 2007 in forum: Options

  13. Options Mentoring

    I think that is true. I also do not think he really has much experience being an off-floor trader, which it sounds like you are interested in...
    Post by: tvgram, Oct 19, 2007 in forum: Options

  14. goog option plays for earnings week

    I did not want to post the entire article without permission, but was only trying to show it may be possible to make money on it, at least over...
    Post by: tvgram, Oct 15, 2007 in forum: Options

  15. Options Action Around Expiration Time

    I saw one of the free "Inside Wire" webinars on www.discoveroptions.com where one of their Mentors, Chris figgy, (who has traded off floor many...
    Post by: tvgram, Oct 15, 2007 in forum: Options