As long as your sticking with highly liquid underlyings like spy you should have no problems.
where exactly WAS the dip!!!
I agree ammo, over the weekend I read where statistically March is the best month for the market..blah...blah..blah and I just thought "uh oh"....
To say Gold is only a play on fear I believe is to ignore the centuries...... literally thousands of years where gold has been both currency and...
Are you a preachers kid?
Personally I think there is actually more risk in selling 2 SD than getting paid for being closer to the money so I sell closer to the money and...
you've been short all week...................hows it working for you... "Stupids" money seems to be winning...
When it is real money and not sim you do. If you can put into place and practice safe trading you will do fine. The problem is we get bored,...
:p While its pretty easy with spreads, futures options are a whole different animal. TOS does a very nice job in explaining margin for equity...
You should be able to figure out how much margin would be released by closing your profitable spread and that might help. Usually it is spread...
Over all just remember AAPL, GOOG and several others are HUGE. Too rich for my blood. When you don't have portfolio margin then you can not hedge...
The problem of trying to close the put spreads on the IC is you still have the call spread which is eating up margin. That is why you have to...
I assume its a long put spread which if you closed would show a profit? If it is a short put spread...then you have doubled down on the wrong...
The big lesson is MARGIN MARGIN MARGIN...your trading too big for your account. while commission costs do eat up profits and it seems to be better...
pretty crazy...odds are we may not see that again any time soon.
I think she was/is legit. TS was actually watching her account in that time period (he was still with TOS/TD and she had/has her accounts with...
She is NOT just a "mom" at home. She was a trained financial person prior to trading her own money. She is a smart savvy woman who happens to be...
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Having been one of the "followers" I'd clarify that OC did NOT advocate IC's. His journal was SPX Credit Spread Trader. Basically selling...
There is NO reason (unless your an insider) to know or understand the WHY's of an individual company's move. I learned a long time ago that...
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