Recent content by Caltrades

Caught the bottom in OIL, and held through the gut-wrenching volatility after the FOMC Announcement, whew, I'm sooo glad that we rallied up after I put in a market order for 10 ES contracts! Good Day, up 6% on the port!

Pretty slick day in the oil market, all of it was shorting from the top on the Jun '07 Mini Oil Contract - 30 contracts used

I scalped 4 points on the Russell 2000 (ER2) using 30 contracts... $100 per point x 4 = $400 $400 * 30 contracts = $12,000

you guys are missing out......when i first started trading stocks I was chasing 1 and 2% gains per day on a particular stock, and try to have my trading account up by about 2% at the end of the week, savy. Then I got into the options market, and the largest 1 day gain I've ever seen is 9200%...

$3,167.50 caught 3.5 point on the ERT, Russell 2000 E-mini contracts...

Today was my second day trading the RUSSELL 2000 (E-Mini). I netted: $8,272.50 in 2 trading hours. Capital Used: $50,000 Gain: 16%

Trading the NASDAQ 100 FUTURES 17 contracts a little over 9 points <a href="http://caltrader.blogspot.com"> <img src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_yg4O6RMVBjs/RX-A4G0XpBI/AAAAAAAAAIE/NOo508GEjF4/s400/blotter+-+12-12-06.jpg">

Nice day to be alive! I ended up making out nicely on one of my hedging positions with the Nasdaq Futures trade in which I scalped 9.45 points, on 17 contracts. <a href="http://caltrader.blogspot.com"> <img...

I'm from Charlotte as well, pretty new to this thread. I day trade stocks, trade options and long term invest in value companies. Why don't we quit the small talk and get a decent sized meeting of futures traders, day traders and all sorts of knowledge databases. I'm sure we could all learn from...

To Dave, I'm not so sure I've ever heard anyone say it was easy to trade for a living. I think that would only be relative, I mean I've heard of FX Traders who stay up about 20 hours trading, and get 4 hours of sleep. And of course we all think trading is easy when every day we're up, noone...

Proud to say I've never made a DUMB keystroke error and lost money. Took a pounding by Rambus (RMBS): -($1,350) Took a gain for the rest of the day: Net: $1,258 Trades: 20 Shorted CCU from the top, it didn't have a hell beans chance of breaking it's high with all that selling.

Dave Liu, nice numbers. Up $981 today on 20,000 shares. Whew I nailed that late intraday rally with some good scalps. Those who caught a 50+ point win on the YM contracts made out like BANDITS!! -Cal

I just want to know why the hell everyone is so scared to post their Buying Power? It would give us all a better idea of what percentage gains you're returning on your total portfolio, I mean HELLO THIS IS ONLINE!!!! I'm Cal. and I have $19,000 real, $100,000 virtual I trade with. Thanks

you guys are actually paying for the HD channel to see what these numb nuts are saying? Personally I could give you some damn good blogs of worthy note over these chumps whose mom cleans up their little NY poopies... just my $0.02

$731 today