Recent content by raa1010

nitro, what you might want to look at is www.ibrix.com, the latency can be eliminated with a file system. infiniband you can use with anybody really. most important thing is file system. hope this helps.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.... The issuing power should be taken...

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr091002b.htm http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2006/cr021506.htm i'll let him explain it. aren't they all wannabe's until we elect someone. i guess you listen to the general media when they tell you to buy a stock or sell one as well.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/debt-and-taxes/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-W-ef7GmT4 this is exactly why the gap between the wealthy and poor is getting bigger and the middle class is shrinking. oil is the same price in the euro countries(maybe slighly higher) today as it was in...

this would level the playing field. big funds and big banks will no longer have a free lunch. they are going to have to be more creative, faster and smarter. they just can't hold onto positions until they work out just because they have all the margin and money anymore. they will not be the...

you might want to look at where your gamma is coming from. if way away from strike, i would take down earlier, if close to strike i may tend to wait a little longer.

interest on the long stock and a rise in interest rates is your biggest risk. however, sell upside near term calls against position each month will help hedge that.

1 for 1, myg for +.12, could have waited a little longer.

there isn't even 20 stocks in the bbh and 5 stocks make up more than 50% of the index. smh has less than 20 stocks. sox has less than 20. xau has less than 15. osx has less than 20. i wouldn't even think of trading this strategy unless it was a small highly correlated sector. i think your...

no more capital intensive than having option positions in 5 or 6 stocks at one time. it's simple and straight forward, not much different than pairs trading, except you are placing a bet that one of the stocks will not correlate with the index.

zero fills today. i thought for sure i would get more than normal today. anybody hedge off an opening only trade with a pair instead of getting out. or do you usually try to keep these strategies separate.

5 fills today, 4 winners 1 loser, but a scratch on the day, wfc got away from me to wipe out the 4 winners. still working on my exits.

had 4 fills this morning, made .25 even with having bhi shake me out for .50 right after the opening. came back two minutes later, i always cut my losers intraday extremely tight. need to work on my exits with the opening only trades. any opionions on exit strategies pertaining to openings?

don, thanks for starting this thread, it has been real helpful. question though, i just started doing opening only trades. i was wondering why everyone here tends to take a .8% or 1% envelope around the fair value calculation that you come up with and not tailor the envelope to the specific...