I'm very familiar with option spreads and trying to minimize time decay, directional bias and basically trying to capitalize on what is probable...
I can't understand why this stock has nearly doubled in the past 6 months. This sucker hit not only a 52 week high yesterday, but it looks like...
I've been known in the past to be as blind as a bat and have a mind like a steel grate so go easy on me if this already exists .... I'm looking...
I'm looking for the ability to buy shares in some commodities or their appropriate indexes. I don't want to buy futures, options, or the...
The cubes have busted the upper bollinger, slow stochs are overbought, the VIX stochs are oversold ... this is a pristine setup ... or is it?
The big bosses were in a meeting yesterday. Come to find out, they met with a company about switching the 401K over. Boss said that the very...
A nice little drop today and the VIX didn't even spike. Also, with it being around 34, that does not measure a great deal of fear to me. So the...
I don't trade commodities, maybe this is why I fail to see the value of those CME commercials. I know the CME went public recently, is this...
Seems like the backtesters for equities aren't cutting the mustard. They don't understand pips and no way to enter interest.
Is it me or is PHLX awful at filling. Perhaps the PHLX options aren't as liquid, but it seems like everytime my order is routed to PHLX it takes...
I was reviewing some of the items on my watchlist and noticed that NXTL was flagged (after the fact) when the price hit 11.05. Since I "missed"...
I was curious to know if some folks use a general number for judging whether or not an option is liquid enough to trade (day or swing). I'm using...
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I'm unable to use TWS because of a corporate firewall. There is no way that port 4000 will be opened. I just opened the account but may have to...
I was reviewing some of the advanced strategies in one of my options books and came across a box spread. Now I've read about them before, but for...
I've recently begun using options to hedge and my current broker charges me a flat rate + $1 per contract. So I can incur $32 in commissions just...
I've been reading up on SSFs and fail to see any real benefit beyond leverage. They are far less complicated than options, however, they don't...
I have been unable to locate historical option prices so I'm having a hard time answering my question on my own. I have a few fairly liquid...
Here I go on a limb again. I just wanted to share something I've noticed. I've been using a trading system that does decent on Nasdaq (high...
I'm look at a VIX chart with slow stochastics and other oscillators and I'm noticing that the VIX and slow stochastics are nearly where they were...
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