Recent content by mynd66

I think he came here figuring he found the greatest discovery since the light bulb. He came here first trying to stump everyone then hoping everyone would applaud his revolutionary finding. Finally in the grand scheme of things, by then we would all be begging for the answer "revealed" when he...

I don't sense any attitude. Whats wrong with asking for advice from people with a certain background?

So do the pros build charts similar to the ones on your blog to find potential setups or do they use statistical data to find the likely direction of vega during earnings? I mean from what your saying they are just looking to short vega. Wouldn't that mean checking historical data to find...

mind giving a rundown on your chart setup? Just curious what all that fancy stuff is. How were you doing trading other instruments?

If you can make money other than options, consistently, why are you trading options? If you have not found your niche then maybe you'll find that at least with options you can stay in the game longer. You don't have to be a 'trained professional'. You can be a self-educated professional...

Stocks can gap in the middle of the day on bad news and what not. May not be likely but not impossible.

You traded options and either you blew up your account or lost a lot... mind sharing?

Wow thanks for taking the time to write that. So how does the market maker hedge against all of the puts he may sell? Does he just short the stock so as to be delta neutral? I mean is it common that even after the puts increase in price due to heavy buying that there won't be any sellers...

Kinda off topic here but wanted to ask... I was looking at the CBOE Daily Market Statistics and it read: Total Put/Call Ratio 1.32 Index Put/Call Ratio 1.90 Equity Put/Call Ratio 0.88 CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) Put/Call Ratio 0.90 What does that mean to you? In the first line...

90 day? didn't realize that. I hadn't done any round trips in the course of one day anyway but thanks for the heads up.

IMO it depends on where you see volatility from here on out. Some may argue that it is already high some may say its going higher. VIX is above 40 right now. Back in Oct, Nov, Dec '09 we were up in the 80's. Just out of curiosity, when you decide to make a play on AAPL or any other stock...

Well said guys. Ok so I went ahead and put in a market order. Your right Spindr0 but its 4:30am and this is my only chance to do something till later on so I threw in my order. I learn things better when it costs me. Hopefully it doesn't costs too much cause I already understand what i did...

It just doesn't sit well with me to cash out for a loss on my short while holding on to a paper profit with my long.

You guys are awsome thanks! Sorry for the confusion, I meant LONG 100 shares tomorrow. Since I have not encountered this before I am a bit confused. As I've said I always close out my position before an exorcism (j/k). If I have 5K in my account and the buyer of the PUT I have sold to...

I'm in the process of getting my feet wet with options. Over the past year I have been trading very conservatively, more so watching and learning than actually trading. Where I am at this point in time I don't feel comfortable specualting on stocks as much as I do the market in general. I...