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I’ve used TD Ameritrade for 15 years. You can both trade live and also have open a paper trade platform at the same time by logging in a second time and choosing one of the other.
On the ThinkorSwim platform you need to type in the symbol
My emails alerts often come in late. Maybe a day late. However, continuously refreshing Twitter keeps me in the loop. Facebook? Not for me. I will never get involved with that platform.
Rich
Yes, US Think or Swim
Good on you for the commission reduction. I’ve been with TOS for years and every so often I will ask that my commissions be reduced. They have never turned me down. As of two years ago, I have the same costs as Teddi. Just sayin’.
Rich
The long strike will determine how much money you are willy to risk. The further away from the short strike the more capital it will take to compete the trade. Me? I never go beyond a 2.5 point spread. Often just one point. I’m happy with making a 100 bucks or even less.
Huh, TOSwim shows COST earning on 12/14
Earnings drop? Earnings out 10/13 according to TOS.
Huh, well I guess my TOS is not giving me accurate info. Good to know. Thank you for the come back.
Amy,
By chance did you mean 3/17 for EOG? I see no volume for 3/10.Teddi,
Your thoughts on YUM? One more trading day……..Not much movement this AM. Closing out the short sides maybe? The trading day is early.
Hi Teddi,
Re SYY; Seems I hardly ever get in on the same prices you do. Most likely by the time you write up the trade, and post it, it has moved up considerably. It would be an interesting read to get your thoughts on reverse iron condors vs a strangle. I could see doing a reverse IC in SYY to reduce my cost but wonder why you don’t, other than it reduces the possible gain.Got out of the Cat trade with a manageable loss and made up the difference with WDC. Thanks for that tip.
Thanks for the comeback. I did 10 each of bto $57 @ 1.06 P, 10 each bto $62 @ .75 C, and 10 each sto $64 @ .32 Total outlay of $946. Maybe the market will dive tomorrow pushing up the P’s or spike up raising the C’s. Yes, I can trade it out for maybe $200 at today’s close.
Teddi,
I wrote on the Yahoo mail link so not sure if you received it. The gist of the email was a CAT trade I entered using the same spread as yours for Feb 5. My error was not catching that I set up the trade for Jan 29 instead of Feb 5. That puts me into a losing situation on 10 contracts. Any thoughts on repair? Wait until tomorrow? Bail and get what I can? Appreciate all your work. Don’t know how you do it!Thanks, Teddi, for the comeback on CAT. I know you like trading NUE. Any thoughts about tomorrow’s earnings on this one?
Hi Teddi,
Any thoughts about getting into CAT today? Obviously I didn’t yesterday. Wish I would have followed your trade on BA.
Yup, time to be thinking about such things. I on the other had bought SDOW. It’s not a wasting asset and by doing 2-3 hundred shares I can easily average down. It just feels more comfortable as there is no time decay. I like your thinking though. Just sayin’.
RTeddi,
Are you going to keep the SDOW over the weekend. Disregard, my 500 shares just hit my stop and are gone.