Go to school. Your options in life are far greater with an proper college degree than not. Decide on trading later.
1. What does "beat the market without taking on significantly greater risk mean?" There are many definitions as to what "the market is" and...
1. Many banks produce such papers. They show systematic strategies such as selling every expiry or on the first of the month. Selling vol works in...
That would actually be an interesting study. Enter into a 1 month iron condor (with some set parameters) and see if the trade generally makes...
While commissions are a drag, this statement only holds true if you believe in efficient markets. But there are mispricings that create positive...
are they reverse splitting?
how do you buy calls and not know the settlement? couldn't that be dangerous?
OTC in the equity world with decent margin requires 50-100MM. WIth crap margin, you can get away with 2MM-10MM (fully collateralized, etc).. But...
it's not uncommon for options to trade in 20-40,000 lot blocks.. that's 20MM to 40MM share equivalents. It's a big market. And in index, it's...
That is correct. You would need an increase in implied vol to equal the theta decay of the junes. That is not likely so your upside is lower than...
i think obama didn't work for goldman... but maybe he ran their nigeria office. i don't think there is another firm that has more powerful...
commissions and bid offer will eat you alive. a round trip for an option is about 3-5 cents on the most liquid names. and you have all sorts of...
Not to mention that if SLV calms down (allowing shortie's mays to expire profitable, the implied vol in the junes will come in a lot. and given...
If you pick the right stock and option you could put a mid market bid/offer out there in one account and hit/lift it with the other. this would...
isn't one of the points of trading that if you are successful you can enjoy a nice living with a decent amount of free time?
Separate accounts are ideal and I have thought about splitting up my stuff into separate accounts by strategy: buy and hold and trading. But you...
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I want to trade with sbc!
but you can blow up on the trade before that happens. And that's the likely scenario. Odds are against you that it will be quiet from here on. And...
A stock that has moved 6% today, will probably move 6% tomorrow and the day after. Why sell any kind of option?
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