Recent content by watkins

I'm also generally skeptical of the story, but if she was taking on enormous risk (I translated this as leverage), as the moderator hinted, I could see her doing it with the amount of capital that was hinted at (around 800K from friends), particularly selling naked index options. Almost anything...

Does anyone have any evidence (numbers/statistics/sources) that link FED tightening/easing with moves in the markets? While I don't question the notion that the FED printing money is a positive for an increase in market prices, I'd like to read some evidence of this iron clad law.

Hi, First post on this site. I've been trading stocks/options for a few years with mixed success. I've read up a lot on technical analysis, but have always been frustrated with a couple of aspects - first, unclear rules for identifying patterns, even simple things such as support and...