Exactly, people are giving OP wrong advice... probably giving the poor guy a heart attack. You can sleep reasonably well this weekend. Your...
On a related note... are there *any* data providers out there that provide a filtered historical data service? All of my historical feeds have...
Hey guys, Can someone else with a Barchart subscription check something for me, and let me know if I'm nuts? Look at GNK (NYSE) on 3/19, at...
My thought on this is... if I was one of the few actually valuable employees at AIG... I would be demanding a transfer to the London office, while...
I'm not a big fan of the move either... but c'mon. Taxation for certain behavior is clearly *not* the same thing as criminalizing behavior.
I like to trade a combo option/equity strategy... do you have any experience with European derivitives? How do I get quotes on options, ideally...
Gotcha. Well, that's still good info, because some of my fills have been ridiculous. Thank ya.
Is this a function of the broker...? It's hard to imagine a "major" retail broker being so difficult to reach, but I'd certainly like to know if...
So... I'm really not a career trader, just an aspiring one. That's probably why I don't know the answer to this one. What the heck is a busted...
Exactly.
Dude, you could've made your $50k for traveling around Italy and France by putting your 1 million in a muni-bond fund instead.
The problem with martingales in general (and OTM put options for that matter) is that they don't fundamentally increase your earnings, there's...
Turns out there's a long discussion here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vB/showthread.php?threadid=152275 And it seems mostly positive!
How is it possible that OptionHouse is providing flat-rate trades? No one else charges less than $0.50/contract as far as I know... But...
Here's one more reason for me to like IQFeed (which I'm evaluating today)... their servers are based in Dallas, just down the block (17ms) from my...
That's not at all right, actually. I expect this position to be a loser, on average. This is only one leg of a larger strategy. I'm thinking...
Oh, scratch that. In my real-time run configuration, I only look back 2-3 days (instead of my full 3 week horizon)... that's probably the...
bridenour, By the way, maybe it's also related to the data source. I'm trying IQLink, and ninjatrader.exe is only consuming 85 MB of...
Option Oracle is configurable, and claims to be using option-specific (and I would take that to mean leg-specific) IV. Appreciate the tactical...
I'm playing with Option Oracle, a tool I'm not too familiar with... but perhaps someone else can take a look at the numbers for me and see if I'm...
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