I always thought that Iron Condor sounds like a cool metal way to lose all
your money.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 3:30 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]>
wrote:

> looking at my schwab trading options im almost wondering if this is a sex
> cult thing. Im pretty sure in our younger pre marriage days me and the wife
> did a bunch of this stuff
>
>
>    1. 2 Leg SpreadsThere are 9 nested list items
>       1. Vertical Call
>       2. Vertical Put
>       3. Calendar Call
>       4. Calendar Put
>       5. Diagonal Call
>       6. Diagonal Put
>       7. Ratio Call
>       8. Ratio Put
>       9. Custom 2 Leg
>
>
>    1. 3 Leg SpreadsThere are 3 nested list items
>       1. Butterfly Call
>       2. Butterfly Put
>       3. Custom 3 Leg
>    2. 4 Leg SpreadsThere are 5 nested list items
>       1. Condor Call
>       2. Condor Put
>       3. Iron Butterfly
>       4. Iron Condor
>       5. Custom 4 Leg
>
>
>    1. CombinationsThere are 8 nested list items
>       1. Buy Write
>       2. Sell Write
>       3. Straddle/Strangle
>       4. Collar/Synthetic
>       5. Rollout
>       6. Rollout Spread
>       7. Rollout Straddle
>       8. Custom Stock Opt
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:13 PM Cameron Crum <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yes the banks like to have your money on hand so they can use it to make
>> money for themselves. Those subscriptions to Chortle Quarterly, and the
>> mega-yachts they ride around on don't come cheap and certainly not with
>> their own money. Also, it's getting harder and harder to find a good
>> monocle maker these days.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:58 PM Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Trading can be worse than Gambling...   If you are really good at
>>> gambling...
>>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sports-bettor-billy-walters-winning-streak-13-01-2011/4/
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/12/21 1:10 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> So if you dont trade on margin, you still have to have a margin account
>>> with 25000? The more im learning and reading the more I understand why
>>> certain people believe there needs to be more regulation. The crazy amount
>>> of risk, aside from just putting your money up, margin, short sale, etc. I
>>> dont have any interest in doing much of that, in regular life I try to be a
>>> cash guy (though economy and paycheck doesnt allow that) but I wouldnt ever
>>> consider taking a load out to go to the casino.
>>>
>>> I see the risk aversion, I switched my paper account balance to the
>>> actual amount id be willing to risk, and suddenly I wasnt as adventuresome,
>>> I assume that would amplify when actual money goes in. I dont mind my risk
>>> on the limited long term stocks, I think theyll perform well, Smith and
>>> Wesson in particular.
>>>
>>> I have my paper account sitting at -1900 for the day with pending sells
>>> for tomorrow that I think will hit the expectations at 9 tomorrow. Is that
>>> considered day trading since part of the cash was from a purchase and sell
>>> today?
>>>
>>> this webull place says i can day trade with 100 dollars, so if i was to
>>> toy with that, its just math to extrapolate to real gains or losses? Im
>>> just finding it hard to believe theres a way to get better than casino
>>> winnings without committing a crime
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 2:55 PM Tyson Burris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Steve-
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I didn’t read the whole email chain so I maybe blowing smoke here.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Margin is borrowed money based on a set value of a security.  You
>>>> cannot Margin trade most penny stocks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Margin trading is high risk / high reward.  You MUST be careful.  A
>>>> stock that is traded on Margin and rapidly decreases its value you can
>>>> cause you to be in Margin CALL or even owe the broker if not careful.
>>>> Buying Power tends to be Margin.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> According to SEC regulations, a day trader is one who trades / flips
>>>> five or more times in a trading period. If you are flagged as a day trader
>>>> you must maintain 25K or more.  Holding a security overnight and not
>>>> bouncing in and out of it prevents this from happening.  I believe if your
>>>> account is flagged, you can wait 60-90 days and request the flag be
>>>> removed. (assuming you don’t day trade anymore)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Those who don’t hold a stock for a year or longer will pay a much, much
>>>> larger capital gains tax  then those who do.  Short vs. Long term.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Examples of pros and cons…
>>>>
>>>> I took a 30K+ loss many years ago when earnings came out and the stock
>>>> tanked.  I had the stock purchased on Margin.  Had I not, the loss would
>>>> have been so much less.  I was forced into a Margin call and had to take
>>>> the large LOSS.  This is an example of Margin trading that caused a large
>>>> loss.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> During Covid, I invested with Margin into a stock I knew would do
>>>> well.  At the peak, 3 million was made.  So this became a perfect case in
>>>> which Margin trading worked really to my benefit.  I had to hold this stock
>>>> for a year or longer to reduce the capital gain tax.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of * Steve Jones
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, April 12, 2021 1:02 PM
>>>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: penny stocks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just dont get it
>>>>
>>>> I reset my account to specific cash amount. I dont understand buying
>>>> power, seems like credit.
>>>>
>>>> The one im toying with is RGBP, if someone can look and tell me what
>>>> thinkorswim is letting me do that the real world wouldnt allow
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:47 AM Carl Peterson <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It is also pretty easy to look like a genius when markets are going up
>>>> an idiot on the way down.  Markets have been going up and up and up for a
>>>> long long time now.  At some point that party will end.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:44 AM Carl Peterson <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What is often missing from play accounts is often liquidity.  They
>>>> generally assume you can make any trade at wherever the current "price"
>>>> is.   If you are trading VWAPY that might generally be true.  Perhaps not
>>>> for VWAGY.  Often not when trending $rando penny stock.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:12 AM Steve Jones <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> im simply not grasping this
>>>>
>>>> on the paper trading site, ive made 7500 this morning on 10k i was
>>>> playing with. thats 11,000 dollars in 2 days of playing around with
>>>> essentially 10,000 up front. There has to be more to this.
>>>>
>>>> i see on my schwab account if i make more than 4 same day trades in a
>>>> week i get flagged as a day trader and need to have 25,000 in my account or
>>>> i get a margin call. I dont know what that means, im not buying on margin,
>>>> it would be cash.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> assuming that I had actually had 10,000 in my real account, would I
>>>> really have profited 11,000 in 2 days on 5 trades? (there was some math
>>>> mistakes made, I made the same size purchase each time, forgetting that the
>>>> increased price lowered the number of stocks i could get for 10k, but
>>>> technically the sale would have put enough in to cover the difference)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 4:08 PM Caleb Knauer <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It works great, right until it doesn't.  If it was that easy then we'd
>>>> all be wolf of wallstreet.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 10:13 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > So I've been dicking around with the market, trivial amount, 5 shares
>>>> per stock. If I had put a lot in Tesco would have done me well.
>>>> >
>>>> > I have 100 shares of this penny stock, it's a gold backed
>>>> cryptocurrency, I watch it bounce a lot throug the day and its followed the
>>>> same trend for its couple months existence.
>>>> >
>>>> > So I set up a paper account and was dicking today with another penny
>>>> stock. Set buy and sell limits with about 10,000 in the play money. It made
>>>> 4k in 2 rounds. It's just a couple pennies it fluctuates but at 500,000
>>>> shares that adds up.
>>>> >
>>>> > I told the wife and of course she wants me to cash in something and
>>>> play with real money.
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm more inclined to see how the play money performs, I have some
>>>> limits on the crypto stock that we will see what happens on monday morning.
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm thinking to myself there has to be a catch. If it was that
>>>> simple, everybody would be doing it.
>>>> >
>>>> > You guys who mess around probably went through a time where you tried
>>>> that kind of trading, and none of you talk about it now, so I assume the
>>>> catch is pretty straight forward.
>>>> >
>>>> > I was looking at my IRA, it's done pretty good at 17 percent. But
>>>> just taking 10k of it and playing with this at 1 percent per trading day,
>>>> that would be another 27k annually.
>>>> >
>>>> > I do see why day traders need low latency though, but with limits I
>>>> dont see it has a lot of impact.
>>>> >
>>>> > What's to stop a guy from spending an hour or 2 every morning with a
>>>> relatively small amount in the big scheme of things like 10k trading to 1
>>>> percent or better and then going to work? 100 bucks a day or more doesnt
>>>> seem terrible for an hour.
>>>> >
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