I use optionsxpress. When I first started it was very basic, but now they have added a lot of extra features. About the only thing they don't have...
many studies have been done to try and determine what traits make a person a bad trader. One of the most common traits is that they deny or...
by the way, if you don't understand the impact of size on your trading outcome, you are even more doomed than I thought.
you took me completely wrong to begin with and you insist on doing so, that's your problem.
personally i think options can be a great happy medium. More leverage than stocks but with limited risk ( you can only lose your premium if you...
well all kinds of support lines were busted today.
"The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals,...
"There is the plain fool, who does the wrong thing at all times everywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool, who thinks he must trade all the...
well, i was speaking of re-insurance, or insuring the other insurance companies. If every p&c policy out there excludes big attacks like that,...
taleb says the same thing. He makes bets based upon the past just like everybody else, but he doesn't increase or decrease his position size based...
he doesn't just own insurance company stocks, he owns the biggest reinsurance company in the U.S. and he needs to raise the premiums.
you will not be getting a job, you will be becoming a customer, unless your credentials and connections are so good that you could land at , for...
yes, it makes me wonder what that software was really for. Sounds like a program trading thing that went nutso.
somebody earlier was talking about the dow not being as significant as the s&p. He has a point , but there is also the fact that the Dow stocks...
I probably shouldn't have used the word "registered" since you don't have to do the same registration as a mutual fund or a broker dealer.
"dotfutures, I wonder what your agenda is. Every one of your nine posts has had something negative to say. Stating that daytrading is purely a...
if you want to do it in the U.S. you will have to be fully registered with the SEC. But.....about that 100% a year...... Seriously, it...
why not just go to your boss and tell em that you want to be a trader instead of a risk manager?
I went to your web site and read the bio's of your founders. You all seem like a bunch of guys who were big options players and completely...
In the markets the so called "rare" events happen a lot more often than in real life. The probability distribution has "fat tails" which means...
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