Personally I LOVE taking the other side of head-andshoulders set ups. I usually place stop order to get LONG and create a new position in these...
Any broker can destroy a market order, and most brokers will execute limit orders about the same since things are now mostly electronic. I...
When doing straddles and strangle the most important thing to be aware of is: - What your daily time decay is to hold the position, but - more...
I am lost on this thread. It looks like something important but can someone explain to me what I am suppose to be seeing other than a cup and...
Technically you are not entitled to a fill on a spread even if your buy side is the ask and the sell side is the bid. I KNOW this is stupid but I...
A covered call, no matter how deep in the money the call is, is exactly the same thing as selling a PUT NAKED. See if your broker thinks this is a...
You show me a NO RISK strategy and I will show you where the risk is. PERIOD. Even "risk-free interest rate" has risk should inflation eat away...
I just want to say think you. Again, this was a great thread and I found a book by someone on this subject. I am going to order it in a bit as it...
I have just been recommended to this wonderful site (elite trader), and even though I have been doing this for years, I am learning here. Thank...
PS. As for what Mignoette said... I agree. If you can't be right with 100 SPX points room for error, you are not watching your position. BUT.......
Personally I think the markets are always changing, yet repeating themselves. Back in 1998-200 people had a lot so success in day trading...
Hello: I can only speak from my decades of experience, but her is my stab at it. 1 - I have found that longer term vertical spreads or risk...
This question has a lot of answers. Depending on the brokerage house it can be a minimum of $2,500 or more. There is a minimum set by the SEC, but...
Why did it take PROFITLOCKER 15 years to wrap his mind around this game? The SAME thing happened to me. It was NOT until I learned everything I...
Be careful. I have seen a lot of people get run over on short stocks (unless hedged with a long call). I like this selling a short, and hedging...
Some great posts here. The easiest way of thinking of a covered call (when I learned) is to remember that it is the same exact position (when...
Thanks for the great post. I have not even thought about Sun Tzu as it applies to trading, rather only my difficult wife. LOL.. Thanks for STEP 3...
We are way worse off than Greece. The US would have its cash station machines spitting out IOUs if it were not for the fact that we are the only...
Shortseller: I am not a fan of Optiontics or RandomWalk. I am, however, a fan of Scott and have seen him speak at both firms. Is a floor trader...
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