When you say "short sales" do you mean selling (writing) option contracts? It just depends on how you do it how risky it is. If you do credit...
What you are talking about is called a straddle. You can Google that term along with stock options and find a lot of info. Volatility and...
I like it choppy. I cut my teeth on "rolling stocks" doing trades every few months or so. It feels about the same to me, but doesn't require as...
How basic do you want to go? Futures contracts are all different sizes. Here's a chart that has the sizes for some of the common ones. Since...
What about switching the base currency for your account to something other than the dollar? What are the downsides to this? I've been...
Has anyone else checked out this resource: http://scholar.google.com , some of the books are free, so far I've found these full texts, but I'm...
I thought even in bankruptcy, you can't default on a student loan?
Ed, who do you trade with? IB actually makes it easy on their statements to match up transactions quickly with the "O" (open) and "C" (close)...
I have bundled, but I should probably switch to unbundled, just looking at it it appears it would be cheaper for almost all of the trades I've...
I'd been noticing the smart router (I use IB) usually ends up routing to the NYSE for stocks that trade on the NYSE. I'm more familiar with...
Does it matter which exchange my order is routed to in most cases? Do you just choose the one with the biggest volume? Using smart routing, my...
I used to do this kind of trading and am just now getting into trading again (after a hiatus during which I had 2 kids). I'd like to follow your...
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