It's hardly news that you can profit from selling options. I sell call and put spreads on a regular basis. It is essential to use a good stop...
This story is from trader Jeff Clark: "I live in luxury and I haven't made a mortgage payment in almost two years," Don bragged. He sipped his...
My math is correct. My point is that if the underlying ETF goes down and then recovers to its original price the 2x version of that ETF will not....
All the editorials I see favoring this tax are by clueless idiots who put all financial people into the same category that they call "bankers"....
On stocks the 0.25% tax is equivalent to tripling my commission costs. On forex, if that 0.25% is on the amount of money controlled, it makes...
Well, you are paying more for the volatility on the little bit of the option price that is time value, but there isn't much time value on a deep...
The Republicans *have* a viable candidate -- Ron Paul. The only problem is, the Republican establishment hates him. He tells the truth, which is...
A fair question, and there's no hard and fast rule. The deeper in the money the higher the delta, the lower the leverage, and the less the time...
I do question the wisdom of such an ad. Having that much buying power in my IB account is all very well and good but I'd be fool to try to use it...
Yes, but how will the Fed keep long term rates low? By buying the massive new debt that has to be issued. About $1.5 trillion in new debt has to...
Well, in another global market panic people will dump stocks for short term treasuries and gold. This could push up the prices of both gold and...
Agreed. When I first started using options I tried buying some OTM options on a clearly uptrending stock. Well, the option sellers weren't...
Well, I learned the hard way not to sell puts on leveraged ETFs (I lost $6000 the first time I did that and will never do it again.) The thing...
My feelings exactly. The profits were on the interest earned, so the Fed is still holding the bonds. If and when the Fed tries to sell them,...
Congress and the IRS love you -- you are the cash cow that funds their junkets, salaries, and the idiot government programs that they use to...
If anyone can consistently get 1% per trading day (compounding to 23% per month, 1099% per year) then please show us your certified brokerage...
Keep in mind that our government insists upon importing one million legal immigrants per year, and wants to give amnesty to about 20 million...
I just stopped out of my last short position (I got a small profit, it would have been a big one if I closed it a couple of weeks earlier). But...
I don't think that God could make 50% a month *consistently* trading Forex (or anything else). A very good Forex trader (better than me,...
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