You will be able to sell naked options with almost any broker but if I'm reading your question right you're wondering what the requirement for...
akivak, congrats on your trade. Pls. keep us posted how your exit looks like. (as far as slippage goes). thx a bunch.
psychological is always involved but I'm not sure that's the sole reason. The longer term options are typically fine (and putting on a spx with...
I would say I always had trouble exiting SPX trades, it just depends how "big" the trouble was and how much I've had to give up from the mid...
I've never traded /ES options but I've traded quite a bit SPY and SPX (didn't matter if it was via TOS or via IB) Getting into a calendar in...
One recently recalled a quote from James Cameron discussing the movie Avatar, which stated, "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a...
I've 15 seconds candles (ohlc, no volume) for about 330 symbols (highly liquid etfs, liquid nasdaq 100, highly liquid nyse) for over a year (some...
my personal experience has been that odd lots make a huge different (I auto-trade with IB) If you backtest with highly liquid stocks (> 10 mill...
Interactive Brokers I've been auto-trading with them for over 2 years. Cheap Commissions, big pool of stocks that are shortable. Don't count...
Just trade October and take the rest of the year off ;-) AWESOME performance this week !!!
WTF!! Nice job Neke !!!! Take your wife out and celebrate this week !!!! Was that the biggest weekly gain ever? Congrats big boy !!
I figured. I've just never seen it on such a broad range of stocks at the very end of the day. I figured it's either a bad print, and/or a system...
Is this a bad after hrs quote on many nasdaq stocks today? e.g. intel, msft, grmn, qcom, vrtx, .... or did they all shoot up at 8 pm eastern...
Is there a screener that allows to screen based on nbr of trades vs. nbr of shares (volume).
I trade automated (mostly daytrade) via IB's API and for the most part I'm very happy with them. Sometimes when I buy cheap stock I end up...
Why are you guys so bitter? Don't you think it's entirely possible that he just needed to focus on something bigger to get some motivation...
Frostie, great journal !!! When you look at the 12 stocks you're trading, what's the lowest average volume (3m) and the typical average volume...
Frosty, good luck on your strategy. I'm trading automated as well but I went the other way (from equities to futures). Are you trading...
There's a MA Crossover thread in the same forum, so this one looks at the problem from a different angle Assume you've build an algorithm (e.g....
just sell a put spread. you'll end up with theta and vega working for you (rather than in a reverse cal spread, where time decay works against...
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