Recent content by OldSpec

I am glad you're still posting. This year will truly be survival of the fittest.

What makes you think they are the same people?!

Sorry to hear that. You know I always root for you. So what happened? The market had been in a strong uptrend. Did you bet against this trend or did you oversize one or two positions that went against you?

Change the date format to mm/dd/yyyy also. You are posting to an American site. (Many people will read 04/11/2016 as April 11, 2016.)

Neke, If something like Black Monday (10/19/1987) happens again, your long option positions will be wiped out. Could your current stock/option trade allocation withstand such a shock? Would you be able to recover from such event? By the way, before I retired from my day job, I had worked...

Thank you for the update.

Is your account still active? How has this account been impacted by the current pullback in oil price?

Congrats. You know I root for you.

How did you do for September?

You went from 3.41M SEK to 2.25M SEK, or was it a typo?

If you're short the S&P on Monday, how could you be down -0.31%?

You found a business more lucrative than trading? I was under the impression that you were one of the few successful traders who'd make a fortune trading, and never quit? I say this without any sarcasm.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/07/gold-bouncing-selling-opp/ seems to have preceded your gold $1,400 bounce prediction by a few days. Is this coincidence or did Barry Ritholtz steal the $1,400 gold bounce idea from you?

Neke, Glad to hear from you and nice to see you do well this year. I have been at this (trading US stocks) since 1986 and seen countless part-time traders getting crushed and not recover. I'm rooting for you to succeed.

Index Piker, I applaud your honesty in illustrating your losses. You use leveraged ETFs and if the market drops like it's been doing, you're gonna be hit.