Hi GEK,            I am also a TOS( think or swim) person. only thing they do not have is range bars, and smaller than 133 ticks. great support. ...
There is Yahoo group Option_BWBs_and_Collars http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Option_BWBs_and_Collars/ In the past, they had a long discussion on...
Thank you Doug. this looks like a helpful site. Thank you Christopher and all the others who came up with links. I don't know why none of these links ever...
Hi Christopher, I agree with you that the best learning comes from backtesting and tweaking. However, I needed some basic theoretical knowledge to understand...
Are you able to access the daily graphs in your CHARTS section. I’ve been blocked out all weekend. Thanks Paul From: TCM LLC Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011...
I think you still use indicators with them. But the signals will likely be a bit different. Set them at the dollar amount that suits you. For example a bar...
Hello, due to quite a big discrepancy on a couple of IWM trades I did today, I am now looking into the fees that exchanges charge for trading IWM Today I put...
Gis: If you go to http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=commission and select the options tab, you will find not only the commission schedule, ...
Well, Im ecstatic that it is finally here. SPXPM - the digital replacement for the SPX index. I have been waiting for this but I see that volume is still...
Hello! My name is Ilya. I'm 29 I'm from Russia. My experience in trading options about 5 years. And I never was a student of any mentoring program. However, I...
sorry. Electronically traded. To replace open outcry and scraps of paper on the floor(200 year old method) ... From: Meuter Gisbert <gismeu@...> Subject:...
I heard TOS was going to have a guy that knows them well give a webinar this week. I have not seen it, hope I did not miss it. I have been looking at them a...
Ilya. Looks interesting. Is this a skewed iron condor? Or broken wing fly? What adjustments did you make along the way to get such a nice liking P/L graph? ...
Gis: I think he is referring to the fact that these are the Friday PM settlement options as opposed to the AM settlement options and that they are traded ...
Hi! In this case it were BWB + some verticals. But it doesn't matter what was initial position and what I did. Because market conditions are not constant. And...
I would like to get the groups thoughts on the wisdom, or folly,buying back covered calls. I have two recent examples: I purchased WMB for 24.70 and wrote 5 CC...
I generally buy-to-close any short call options prior to expiration to avoid any consequences of an unexpected assignment. So, in your WMB example I'm not...
I developed a methodology to cover short calls with a 50% gain. This is my own personal story: In the late 90s or early 2000s, I was playing a stock called...
I actually put BTC limit orders on any of my outstanding calls, usually $0.03 for an ETF and $0.05 for an equity. Quite often, by the time I've been notified...
I trade primarily covered calls on stocks that have good fundamentals and that although I'm okay if I get called away I will at times roll to another month and...
I have a questions regarding effective strategies that will work for stocks that have currently very high implied volatility compared to historic volatility....
Thanks, Chris, for a greatly detailed response. And let me supply some missing info on the WMB trade. Â On 9.29 I bought 1000s of WMB at 24.70 and wrote 10 CC...
I will usually buy back my calls for .05 if possible, reasoning that I've extracted almost the maximum possible value form the call. Of course, I don't pay a...
