mcgene4xpro - why does it matter what "professional traders" say? Shouldn't you (in general not you) do what's best for you in terms of risk...
Nastynate - I agree put options are in general overvalued since the '87 crash (esp after the housing bust) b/c of a persistent bid for downside...
dwpeters - most of the time this strategy works (more so for sector/industry and market etf's than individual stocks) however you MUST use a stop...
oriole - the def of bad luck: getting banned from ET on your first post. Anyways, you can profit from vol like you mentioned (straddle/strangle)...
optionable - yes, your broker will give you a 1099 w/ the info you need. Here's a link to tradelog which gives some more detail....
Optionable - for futures/futures options you only record the net gain/loss on form 6781. You also qualify for 60/40 tax treatment.
As Heech said, that's beta not alpha. There is tremendous pressure on HFs to reduce fees now, DE Shaw being a the most recent example. And...
+1 for tradelog as spindr0 said. In my opinion, the best solution is tradelog + turbotax. For those afraid of an audit, turbotax offers a...
+1 Proflogic. The SPX was below the 10, 20, 50 and 200 DMA BEFORE 9/11. No one can predict a black swan like a terrorist attack but trading...
Surprise - On the morning of 9/11, futures immediately went locked limit down and the stock market closed soon after.
Victor8 - Selling naked options ties up margin so that has to be taken into consideration. Whenever I hear about selling calls and buying puts...
Scalping ES (or any leveraged instrument) w/o being hedged is like playing russian roulette every day. Instead of playing the odds of eating a...
Here's an easy fix - use firefox with noscript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722/). Hope this helps.
You're right LEAPup. Selling everything for that low price would be almost as foolish as accepting anything less than 100 cents on the dollar for...
Bump - everything for 700. Going...going...
3 years.
Bump - final price cut to $800.
Bidding reopened since buyer backed out - again (same one from before). Price cut to 850.
I've used an ergotron stand for 3 years and I've never had any problems with it. It's made out of aluminum/steel and is extremely well built....
Here's a pic. Any questions just PM or reply to post. LEAPup thanks for passing this along!
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