As said, the risk is limited to 5%, regardless of where the underlying goes. If it goes up OR down then the better the result. One loses the 5%...
This is not elementary grade 3 maths. And: maths is all, a strategy that is not based on maths is guestimate, throwing a dart.
That's exactly what I feel nowadays about the stock market, ie. another big crash is on the way...
Generally it's not that simple if you have to write the whole program. You need to be an experienced programmer in the language of the API (C++,...
The rise of the market on the 1st can IMO be explained with the fact that retail gets it's paycheck on that day...
What do you think of the following overnight options strategy? The table is created using Black-Scholes for the outcomes of the next day. The...
Sorry, I don't have time, the code is intended more for sw-developers as they know what it is and how to use it, or howto convert it to other...
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK The Outstanding Public Debt as of 30 Oct 2012 at 09:15:08 PM GMT is: $16,202,743,433,871.04 The estimated...
Expect market chaos tomorrow... An opportunity for market manipulators...
It's a little commandline program written in the programming language C++, with comments at the beginning. It simply calculates how many shares...
Since the topic of this thread is averaging down: in an other forum here some days ago I had posted a formula and source code for computing...
Oh boy, thx! I overlooked it for a so long time. I guess this happens to many users, maybe it should be placed at a better location on the page...
Hi, how does this rating stuff (giving stars to a posting) function? I've not been able to find the location/link...
Hmm. :-) Sorry, I don't have that much experience yet with options trading nor with barrier options to be able to make a comparision between them....
U.S. Signs Declaration Of Dependence On China http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-signs-declaration-of-dependence-on-china,30113/ :-)
My advice: Your main goal should be to never get in to a situation where you are forced to leave the market and the trading My 2nd advice:...
Golden, golden! Thx man! This is really a bomb news for the markets! Some excerpts: [..] economic outlook [..] "pretty goddamned awful...
ROTFL! :-) Even w/o Sandy SPY is ripe for going down for some weeks, IMO...
Hae? :-) Where is the logic therein? IMO the short guys will gain big and the long guys will lose much, isn't it?
Yes, I understand, thx. It's a complicated field, and I'm not a researcher, so I'm shelving these not yet ripe ideas of mine, and instead will...
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