Seemed like the same old IB story:D
Look at the slippage ...:(
BZH $2.5 Call seemed like a good long shot..it is cheap, just treat is as a lottery ticket :)
Mark, Thanks for the insight response. A quick question - strangle cost money (premium, commison and slippage) especially when the...
u21c3f6 - Thanks , this is precisely the type of answer i hope i can get from here. The interesting part is that so far you are the only one...
We all know that you need an edge in order to obtain alpha in your trading, or else eventually you will loss in long term due to the commision and...
how about if the stock tanked to zero ? :confused:
I trade QQQQ quite a lot when it was around $50, and one thing for sure, I never get exercise for my short options (even sometime it was nearly $5...
What you do for the rest of your 90% cash ? sitting in your broker account ? :p
This means you can only get blow up if you loss 10 times in row ? You seemed really conservative :D
So your return is 0% (after commision) ?:eek:
I don't like to time market as I know I always get punished if I try to outsmart Mr. Market by guessing the market direction. If you think you...
Mark, Thanks a lot for sharing your experience and I am really appreciate that your inputs. When you mentioned you have been profitable...
I won't feel surprise if someone ask the same question before, the point here is do we really have an "edge" in options trading ? If alpha...
Time to time, if i am bullish or bearish in certain position and confident that they will make a big move in a short term, i always use this kind...
As a retail traders, you always get into disadvantages position in commision, slippage (even worse when you hit your stop loss and you have to...
As a retail trader, there is a question that always comes back and hunt me from time to time.. May be this is an easy question to all the elite...
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