OK, this is obviously not working. I manage to get a lucky hit here and there, but overall I’m losing a few percent here, a few percent there, and it’s “nickel and diming” me into broke-land. I ... more

I came to Trade King in March.  I read a lot of the group posts..and the forum posts..and didn't have much to say at first.   Then I got up the courage to start offering my own littl... more

Just read an interesting item in The Economist called “Forswearing Greed”, in which 400 Harvard MBAs – half the 2009 graduating class! - signed a “Hippocratic oath for managers”, promising to “serv... more

Hey everyone, This is my first blog post on Tradeking, I'm just trying out the new feature. So let’s get started eh? Past few weeks I've been playing Equity earnings, usually betting on ... more

“Rolling” is a common way options traders adjust options positions when their forecast on the underlying seems wrong in the short-term, and they just want to buy a little more time for the trade to... more

Welcome to your long weekend, traders! The trading week kicked off with Bernie Madoff sentenced to 150 years in jail – good riddance, I say. Otherwise, things are calmer for a change, probably due ... more

    A economy on the verge of demise. The capitalist way of life is soon to meet its end at the hands of, not just a liberal. But an extremist liberal socialist. The g... more

{updated 10:10 am CT} This is to funny not lead off with!                     &nb... more

We want to spread the word about some widely-held misconceptions and underappreciated risks for leveraged ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds). Leveraged ETFs, which are designed to offer leverage or perfo... more

  { Updated 8:45 am CT} Before I get to TARP:       Hey, Dennis "What's the VIX" Kneale, your market knowledge is limited at best. That is why you ... more

Back in September 2008 I wrote post for the readers of my website (and later it was syndicated by Reuters - they must have overlooked something :) which I am republishing today here for the benefit... more

What do you call a covered call that uses a high-delta LEAPS call option as its underlying, instead of a stock? We posed this question as an informal contest to Options Guy readers and got a flood ... more

This story speaks for itself.How can anyone working for these mortgage divisions sleep at night? more

Another interesting read in the Journal last week, “Risk vs. Executive Reward” by Cari Tuna and Joann S. Lublin. The reporters explore two recently released, conflicting reports on executive pay’s ... more