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Been doing some reading on straddles, so I went to check it out a bit at my brokerage. I am approved to buy a call, and to buy a put, but it wont let me buy a straddle. Am I missing something or can I just place two trades and have the same result?

I am looking to trade profunds mutual funds, since they are no transaction fee, and a lot of brokers also forego their short term redemption fee because of their short term trading nature. Does anyone know of a broker where i could trade these with absolutly zero fees, and a 500$ minimun...

tomorton: Thats why I chose the levereged instrument. To make some money, you have to take on risk. What is an acceptable level of risk is different for everyone, what I've put together seems ok to me, as I am in and out within a number of days at most. Holding time ranges from one day to...

Well i see your points, however, given the instrument I am trading (the Dow Jones Index, but levered), I will present a defense. I believe the stock market has an overall upward bias, this is obvious, and why shorting is not included. Therefore, I believe the chance of being completely wiped...

Well the worst drawdown was march of 09, i was -34.44%, finished 1q 2009 at -20.37, and year 09 at .95%. So there was quite a gain there to come back from the low of 09, but this was an extremely volatile time and i don't consider it to be realistic to a normal bull or bear market, if there is...

Here is a yearly breakdown: 2008- 8.96% vs. Dow -33.84% 2009- .95% vs. Dow 18.82% 2010- 25.12% vs. Dow 11.02% 2011 to date- 23.37%

I have a fully automated trading system for the dow jones index, long only using DDM and since mid February of 2010 UDOW. Since Jan 1, 2008 to today (5/14/11) i am up 69.8% total. Considering i have been using 2X and currenty 3X etf's, i dont think this is good enough. Any thoughts?

Hello, let me explain a little of what i am trying to do. *I am trading end of day off daily charts. *I am looking for an indicator (or set of) to use their values as a percent of my portfolio to have invested. *For example, take the RSI. *At the end of day lets say it has a value of 55. Then i...