OC said "Thus I am not jumping into call spreads yet". i was talking more to some of the eager learners following your strat... some seem to be...
You have to go back to the early 90's to find novembers that equaled or undercut the low of october. many times november has been a strong trend...
with the way u trade u would be better off just taking 20% of 2 hypothetical winners, stick it in your pocket and burn the rest of the starting...
Apex at the beginning of the thread you made two predictions. one was short term and had no conditions, a rally. the second, conditional, was...
if the market's slow i'll listen to jazz or pop but when we are in a mean downtrend and i'm trading volatility names i like to listen to black...
Cash as others have said, taking off part of the position at a predetermined level reduces the p&l volatility (smooths out the equity curve)....
BS Finance with emphasis in economics. started by trading foreign currencies overseas. IMO MBA doesn't do anything for trading other than...
i didn't say u wouldn't make money. i said u r not hedged. writing covered calls has absolutely nothing to do with hedging. it has everything...
i'll add that i have never heard of using short calls to hedge a long. all u r doing is limiting your upside with the downside 100% unhedged....
i've traded intc for off and on for 11 years. the last few years the stock has reacted to the gross margins and gross margins forecast....
when it was known as TradeHard it was good but Connors (i am a fan of his research methods) turned it into a hype site marketing a lot of marginal...
Does turning the system off for a couple of days before/after quad witch affect the results. those of us who have been trading many years take...
***************** is somebody holding a gun to your head or are you just carrying a mistake o/n? traders are not stuck with positions, only...
as a discretionary trader for 18 years in FX, options, and stocks my edge is position sizing based on my confidence level for that particular...
i'm not agressively tooting my horn in order to drum up biz like darren is for his $3,000 excel program or you are for your brother's prop firm....
Oz is CORRECT their are many of us who have made that much multiple years trading prop utilising far less capital than darren. i'm sure darren...
the MAIN problem here consists of four letters... AMEX! about 13 years ago i went thru my whole AIQ database and deleted every single amex...
mschey i have studied a lot of data on it for years. four or five years ago you could make a lot of money setting an automated stop 1 tick...
higher volatility is positively correlated to percentage of gap opens being the hi/lo of the day. the lower the overall volatility in the market...
unless they have revised the proposed rule the only way i see being able to get short on the open is if the specialist re-indicated the stock with...
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