Recent content by skillz20

You guys are right about the stops. If I used stop I would have never seen the big gains. Example, In mid Nov I purchased the GOOG Dec Call at a 710 or 720 strike.. something like that. I purchased the call for 2.00 only to have the option sink %50 to 1.00 the following day. GOOG's underlying...

Wow.. Some of you guys are brutal. Its not prob though. Champion, I've read some of your posts and you make some good points on day trading success. I think toronto and DerekD are dead on with the importance of stop loss and common sense money management. You know guys, I'm not here to claim...

I was short term trading highly volatility options such as GOOG, RIMM, BIDU, AAPL, FSLR, DRYS - Aimed at deep money options with high delta +>.90 - Towards the end I started doing less study with the same trades. Maybe got lazy looking at the overall market indicators. Maybe a little...

I'm new to the boards but I just wanted to share this with you guys. I first started trading "seriously" last January. I started with 7k and immediately started trading stocks and options. Nothing held longer that 3 weeks, with the exception of AAPL. By the End of december my account was at...