Date SLV Calls Price Puts Price Value UPnL Entry 40.2 5 4.65 5 4.50 $4,575.00 7/27/2011 39.28 5 4.15 5 4.92...
I recommend addressing your account equity curve in advance. What will you do at various equity/time points? What if the account hits $30k?...
Take $30k and open a cash (not a margin) account. Give your wife control of the rest and instruct her to shoot you if you come and ask for more...
Open questions, for opening a straddle: How does my arbitrarily-chosen tactic of buying ATM options compare to finding the best value among...
I put on a SLV straddle today. Interested to hear if anyone is doing this with SI FOP. Check out my journal
p.s. SI FOP DEC 41 P/C is $3600/$3950 at the moment. I'm not sure how good an idea it is to get involved with FOP on such a big contract (margin...
Here is a visual representation of the trade. You can see if SLV continues to move as it has in the last year, this is going to work out well....
Fills Using "SMART" order routing on IB. Put in LMT @ the bid, 5 contracts, Jan 12 SLV. For the C is was 4.65 For the P it was 4.40 C's...
I hope to gain some experience and insight into straddle trades (simultaneous purchase of a put and call, same strike, same expiration) for both...
Time stops are very powerful but you need to gather statistics for very specific setups. Profile the set of winning trades and you will find that...
OP, read Justin Mamis, "The Nature of Risk". It is pretty much a book written about your question. I love what BSAM said..."the markets do...
Lloyd Doggett (D-TX 25th) upset defeat on the way. His opponent is Donna Campbell, M.D. Remember this? A crowd of protesters show up to...
Technical analysis doesn't predict ANYTHING in the sense that you are using the term "predict", OP (i.e. prediction = determinism). TA gives us...
Hi Engine, I have a few suggestions that you might want to consider. I'm guessing that in evaluating how well you are doing, and evaluating your...
The author of the article left out a critical analysis component. He talks about the risk/reward: but not the probability of success or how...
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In order to do this, you've got to have a rules-based system where the discretion is in one or more of the rules. For example, an entry rule such...
Just closed all my shorts for an extremely small loss. See below-- over the past week when the market declined, the hi/low ratio made a higher...
peil, I have had the same sorts of things happen to me, both in trading and poker-- where you're past something for years-- and all of the sudden...
Spent yesterday and this morning getting short in various and sundry areas. Waiting.
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