Thanks for everyone's responses! I guess what I'll do is look up all these things like straddles, strangles, collars, etc. I know their basic...
I got lucky and am the proud owner of a single RIG Jan 2011 $50 call, after buying it a few months ago when RIG was around $48. I paid around $5...
I think the benefits are: 1) learning how to be patient to wait for a good, high probability setup, and learning not to take crappy setups...
Hi Lou, Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by institutional platform? Could you give me the names of some of the platforms you're...
That's a dumb comment. A few weeks ago he had a self-admitted meltdown after many weeks of losses, and in the last 3 weeks he's made some great...
Congrats!! Awesome recovery you've made in the last 3 weeks! Keep it going!
Thanks! This was exactly the piece of info I was looking for!
I was thinking that but the US futures only moved a couple of points. The movement of the HSI was over 10x larger
Is anyone following the HSI? What caused that 400+ pt surge in the index futures? The action on there tonight is crazy! It started out...
Only if you can survive the drawdowns. 41% drawdown in 2008 is way too much for most investors who want long-term growth. Most investors would...
Everyone and their mother is saying that the markets will sell-off post-elections. Does this mean we will sell off, or could it mean that it...
In my experience, there isn't a single enterprise customer that would roll out any type of patch in the middle of the day. The NYSE has the most...
Guys, the NYSE does not do software upgrades in the middle of the day. End of story. Their explanation is BS, something else is behind the...
I think if Neke can't take the time off given all of the severe, and fundamental mental mistakes he has made, then he has a gambling addiction....
oops sorry I read too fast!
Most real estate sales these days are short-sales or foreclosures. If the foreclosure market gets shutdown, even temporarily, by title insurance...
Isn't this an example of a "naked short" where the person is short without having secured shares to borrow? If so, isn't that illegal? (Yes,...
I was wondering if anyone knew what the historical limit up/down values were going back to the 1990s? I know currently it is 30 cents, but it...
Neke, I really appreciate the brutal honesty of this journal. It must take a lot of courage to write your logs when you know you had a week like...
I'm fairly certain you could write a straightforward function in C code that could process this extremely quickly. Obviously the factors that...
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