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    Is there a broker or a site offering a good dry-run (demo) account?

    Well, great. My fcking net connection went away, and the re-login page wiped out THIS page, took my un-posted reply with it, and won't go back. Fcking grrrrr. Presumed translation: right soddin' ********, actually, innit? Might bloody throw a wobbler. Anyway, thx y'all. Paper trading would...
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    Can you "double-close" options?

    Yay. I DLed the Passarelli and bookmarked Trader's Library. TY!! (I didn't know the Library is a whole other site.) I'm in process of signing up with TD Ameritrade. All the reviewers like them, they seem to have everything I need for a long time to come, and I've really been wanting to try on...
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    Can you "double-close" options?

    Oooh, do you mean loans from the broker? I'm kinda "meh" about that. Will I need enough money in my acct to cover the cost of the option's underlying stocks? Or just enough to cover the option's premiums? I can't find the older Passarelli pdf even with the author search. :-( But I did stumble...
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    Is there a broker or a site offering a good dry-run (demo) account?

    I've got paperMoney open right now and am trying to learn it. I went with TD Ameritrade anyway, due to paperMoney and consistently positive reviews for the brokerage features I want. So at least I'm getting all tooled up. Thx again. In my spreadsheet I ran 6 different straddle/strangle type...
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    Hedging TSLA w dual options

    Or hyperinflation with gold bullion, stashed in Singapore or some such....? Direction-neutral, exactly. I've been running 6 strangle/straddle/etc pairs this week, all on TSLA, all were experiments, and all would have made money after paying their premiums this morning when word got out about...
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    Hedging TSLA w dual options

    Thanks so much for the explanations. I've bookmarked an article or 2 on the greeks and will add your explanations to my notes file. Not sure I'm ready for greeks yet, and not sure I should proceed without them. I'm still trying to figure out whether closer-together strikes or lower premiums get...
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    What is the average age of a consistent trader?

    This is starting to look like the forest vs the trees. Is trading (real estate, music, science, construction....) your only job, and are you tolerably happy doing it by your own standards, and are you tolerably happy with the living you make? If so, you're successful. You don't have to be a...
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    What is the average age of a consistent trader?

    Here's me: alone, own acct, own research (and Qs here), and I'll trade from home. I'm 55 and I've been studying for maybe 3 weeks. Great test case? Maybe. I've also spent 7 years in boots-on-the-ground "creative" real estate, mostly finding deals and wholesaling their purchase contracts, where...
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    Can you "double-close" options?

    I think in terms of plays. To wit: In real estate, there is (or was) an angle called the "double-close". Ex: I have no money to buy a house, but I can still write a purchase contract to buy one at 150k, then write a sales contract for someone else to buy it at 200k. Both closings happen at one...
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    Sticky Introduce Yourself

    There is an overall plan that's designed to help you define the principles you will use to trade. It's meant as a guide to keep yourself in check. http://www.trade2win.com/articles/886-trading-plan-template/p/1 I've only gotten half through it, because it goes into areas I'm still too ignorant...
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    Is there a broker or a site offering a good dry-run (demo) account?

    Yeah, I'm totally interested in options because 1) leverage, 2) limited losses, 3) hedging, and 4) things I don't know about yet. I've heard of ThinkOrSwim, didn't know what it was. Will check it out today. Thx!!
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    Is there a broker or a site offering a good dry-run (demo) account?

    Not so much Thx, but Schwab doesn't have one at all. The others don't generally make it easy to see if they eve have it. So now I'm just trying to find one which handles enough exchanges to do all asset classes. Prolly I'll have to sign up with a couple of them to get all bases covered. Ya...
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    Hedging TSLA w dual options

    Update: I dry-selected a put and a call, did up the xls, watched the TSLA stock, but never dry-triggered, even tho on several brief occasions my put was mildly in the money after deducting both sets of premiums. I didn't dry-trigger cause I soon realized that I'd dry-bought contracts where those...
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    Is there a broker or a site offering a good dry-run (demo) account?

    Total noob trying to learn and to dry-run strategies. I need to find an online broker or DIY site where I can get access to real-world info in near to real time. It seems that most brokerages want bank accounts linked or have minimum deposits. I am soooo not ready for that. I'll keep looking...
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    Hedging TSLA w dual options

    Hey all. I'm a total noob to trading, but spent 7 years wholesaling local real estate (writing and selling purchase contracts). I pursued, and often devised, some pretty creative ways of finding distressed sellers. So now that I'm studying trading, I get ideas for Plays that I don't know how to...
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