this thing is still down on pretty big vol. I wonder what's going on over there.....
what do you mean?
I'm staying light until banks report in 2 weeks. maybe we see some vol after that. Might be the calm before the storm. (or rally if i'm wrong)
trash last post. didn't realize you were looking for atr. sry
I kind of agree but no way i'm going long till banks report earnings. I don't mind missing some of the ride to avoid that stress. Do you...
I concentrate on the vix more than anything. there is definitely no direct correlation between the vix and any one stock. Heck it went against the...
I get the feeling not too many people trade the vix like i do but i found this on the vix and more blog (great site btw). A great writeup about...
Anyone paying attention to the VIX lately? The market keeps going lower this week and the vix hasn't really changed much. It has actually...
What if the 3 bedroom is on Park Ave in NYC and the house on the hill is in Niue (county with lowest GDP)?
Anyone catch this interview? If she's right (which she has been lately) we're in for a bad couple months. Basically she downgraded estimates...
Your last post was fine. Anyway my straddle gained about $200 today and I just closed it out. It was on 25 contracts. I'm a little upset I covered...
hedgefundtrader: Thanks for explaining an iron condor to me. lol. Maybe you can figure out a slight difference between scalping .10 cents...
one other thing.... the only reason i bought 27.5 calls today instead of 25's is because the 27.5's had less bidders and i got in at a better...
After I posted I realized it must have been confusing to understand. When I meant I was going short, i meant short the market (which to me is long...
again pretty bad shorting signs. I shorted ahead of consumer confidence. what good that did me. lol. i think we might rally to the close. i opened...
vix. look at the change in ATM options on any given day.
i would just hold what you have. You still have 2500 shares that you haven't capped the profit on by writing calls. like you said I doub't you're...
12800 was my original short entry too but 500 or so up points made me step in a little sooner. I just want to scalp a little retrace. I'm...
i just went short too. (well long Vix calls technically). Dow doesn't seem to want to break out much above 12600. Been hovering there for a couple...
CNBC keeps saying luxury retailers are the last to bottom/first to rebound. Tiffany's beats earnings and they want us to believe all wall st's...
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