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Old 09-25-2007, 02:32 PM
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yea, the problem with options is they are more 3d than a stock or future. its not just price and volume, its price, volume and then how the greeks relate to the underlying.
from what i've seen with options alot of people just use them as leverage to the underlying when they would probly be better off even looking into single stock futures. i really wanted to get into options trading a year ago but the more I understood the less I wanted to trade them. I think they are best avoided.
I think the best vehicles to trade darth are futures or the stock straight up. After trading options and doing all the analysis that goes into just one trade, I found it to be very time consuming and my time was better spent looking for other setups to maximize my time.

And I've never been a fan of markets with market makers and/or shady brokers. Hence the reason I do not trade options anymore and have never traded forex (even though I get the forex bug every so often).

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