My experience with Carlin/Generic was not good. I and the people I worked with were not new traders with little capital, so I can't speak from...
Read through this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93373 Trading an underlying instrument, stocks, futures,...
Hold on a second. You are a newbie but you are talking about selling credit spreads and letting them go in the money? I have posted before on...
Seriously? His "volatility trading" has 8 losers and 4 winners for a net of -$315. Read the 2nd post in this thread again, "nail on head" comes...
Well let's see, you are a "newbie" and you question whether your trade was "poorly executed" so I will assume you don't know much. You bought a...
I don't know anything about this stock but your info seems a little off. First you are assuming non market makers are long those calls and bought...
What underlying are you talking about? Some stocks and indices have much better option spreads than others. The simple rule when trading options...
Oh man, thanks for the laugh. But that link should be in the joke section not the option forum. A kid who started reading about options in 98,...
db, I have watched so many people lose money trading I always feel obligated to tell retail option traders to not trade options until they really...
I'm sorry, and I am not trying to be negative - just trying to help, but you are being far too simplistic. Options are based on math and you need...
It is a matter of interest carry cost for the market maker. I assume that an ITM Put in Dec has little if any retail involvement. The market...
This was a futile debate between CYOF and Profitaker on a trade2win thread. You are simply going around in circles to try to show that selling...
I'll bite. Who is this "veteran Option Trader"? What are his qualifications? I would bet there are members of this site who have more experience.
Artes, Alright, so you are talking about trading the VIX Futures contract, not trading options on it. Do you have access to good quotes and...
For the sake of efficiency can we just assume that Derivman is stating that option trading, meaning hedges and other instruments in combination...
Artes, I am not sure what you are saying. Are you talking about selling Calls or Puts, which months? The money you should have for selling Puts...
gg12, First these guys are just joking about selling at option at zero, no need to respond just laugh; I thought it was funny. Second, as I said...
I didn't mean a simple system can't work, I meant that trading options profitably over the long run is not easy. If you find a trading...
"But I think a strategy can be created based on the history." Yes, I agree, but it needs to be a trading strategy with good risk and money...
http://www.marketdataexpress.com/ These guys advertise on the CBOE website. It is not free but it looks like what you want.
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