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To clarify further on pricing: we grandfather members at rates they signed up for as long as they maintain an active subscription. Once they cancel, they lose the privilege to be grandfathered. Based on industry prices, we believe CA is worth north of $120/month, and the prices will increase once the service has a longer track record. Those who signed up at $57/month will be very happy they did if they stick around.

I'm sure you are not the first one who wants to cancel (although it would really be beyond my understanding why would someone want to cancel the best backtesting software in the world), so I'm sure there is a way to do it.

We will take care of it.

@ex3y7smy apologies, somehow we missed you in our list.

@pboongirdIt involves me remembering to do it every Friday and Sunday.. but we can try it.

Looks like clear majority of members want to continue see those picks attached to emails. However, there is also a significant number of member who want them removed, and I cannot ignore it. So this is what I will do: Reduce the number of picks from 4 to 2 as some members voted for this option. This will significantly reduce the scrolling. Turn them off on busy days, and turn on on weekends. I hope this solution is acceptable.

This is not really an alternative. The current setting is automatic, I just enable it and Our Picks are automatically attached to emails. If I disable it, I will need to create a custom email every weekend. Which I might do occasionally - but it won't be automatic.

Hello All, The latest version of the forum software includes a cool feature called "Our Picks". It allows the forum admin to select few articles or forum posts that might be of interest to the community, and include the links to those articles in all emails coming from the community. This feature allows us to share some important and useful updates that members might miss otherwise. However, some members requested to remove those picks from emails because the emails become too long when those links are attached. I'm seeking members feedback if they want to leave those picks in the emails or remove them.

Options only.

I think we should all be very grateful to @SBatchfor working out this deal. As far as I know, this is the best deal available today in the industry, when you combine commissions, execution, platform and customer support. If you have a 20k portfolio, that translates to 0.6% cost of your portfolio for commissions, even if you do less than 3,000 contracts. For 50k portfolio, it is 0.24%. You cannot beat it.

I believe you got it right - except for #8. I think $109 is not applicable anymore, some members are grandfathered at that rate, but new members normally pay $159. #9 - you have to be CA member to get the $119 promotion. Otherwise you pay $159 for TradeHawk/Tradier combo (or can do $40/month for Tradier only via our old promotion.

Yes.

If you are referring to CA subscriptions at $57/month (not Tradier deal), we will have a grace period of 1 month for those who will wish to convert to annual after the rates go up.

My first advice would be: learn first, trader later. Don't open a trade unless you understand what you are doing. To answer your questions: 1. No, you cannot make sure that the price will go up. In fact, even it it does go up, in some cases it would not be enough to offset the negative theta. 2. Not a good idea. If the stock doesn't move after earnings, IV collapes will kill the trade. 3. Holding through earnings is always a risky trade. Please visit our education center to read more.

And this is not unique with Tradier. I experienced it with IB many times. In fact, sometimes the offer might sit there for a while, and lowering it by 1-2 cents might get you a fill. Sometimes it helps to "play" with it few times.

We never do uncovered options.

As mentioned in the Tradier offer post: This offer for commission free option trades is valid for new accounts opened at Tradier Brokerage and funded with a $5,000 minimum within 30 days of account opening. And no, no limitations that I'm aware about.

Based on feedback from our members over years, IB used to have superior fills compared to brokers like TOS, eTrade, Fidelity, Schwab etc. However, when those newer brokers (Tradier and tastyworks) started to operate, the fills reported by members are comparable to IB. I think the main reason is that unlike brokers like Fidelity or Schwab, Tradier and tastytrade are very options friendly. Overall, I don't think it's a zero sum game. With IB, you would pay around 20-25% of your account value per year. And IB is still considered one of the cheapest. If you can reduce it to just few hundred dollars with Tradier, that's huge. I wish I could switch - I wouldn't think twice.

They indicate the 10GB as a limited time offer. And if you take it, you probably won't qualify for the 10% SO discount.

yes. One trial per service.

As mentioned on the subscription page: The purpose of the 10 day free trial is to see if you like the service, the community and our trading style.

Those who believe that trading is different that other areas in life - please read 10,000 Hours Of Trading by my good friend and college @Colibri Traderwho is our guest contributor. Of course on the other side of the spectrum there are claims like "Screw the 10,000 hour rule, all you need are a few minutes a day to master the art of Forex trading". If you read a Forex 101 book such as the Forex Profits Pocket Guide, you can learn everything you need to know about the Forex market in just one hour. I can assume those charlatans attract more subscribers than we do, but at least I can sleep well at night. Can they?

Generally speaking, placing limit orders to book gains is fine, but it also depends on strategy. I would not recommend placing GTC orders on straddles or RICs because if the stock gaps at the open, you might miss some of the gains. On other strategies it is perfectly fine and even recommended. Regarding volume - there are no hard numbers, but usually liquid stocks have very tight options spreads, and also decent OI.

Please welcome our new mentor @TrustyJules He has been with us for less than a year, but I think many of us learned to appreciate his experience and his contribution to the forum discussion. His posts are always very helpful and to the point. @TrustyJuleswill be responsible mostly for Creating Alpha forum, but of course will continue contributing to SO forum as well.

I wouldn't do any hard stop limit orders, especially on less liquid options. If you want to implement a stop loss, I would do a mental stop loss.