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Ice: I am confused (which is probably a natural state of events for a realtive beginner in this game). It sounds as though your AAPL trade is a bear call spread. Why wouldn't you construct a (delta neutral) put backspread for your AAPL trade and just keeping rolling it over until the...

For Ice--Although the PD underlying gapped open a point at the open, the 140p only got up to 2.70 and the 135 made it to 1.55. Theoretically, I could have improved the spread from 1.15 to maybe 1.50 if I was working from my home system. Due to the fact that I am limited to trading through the...

Welcome back Multi: No, it is not greed that is causing this behaviour. I have paid too much tuition to the markets to allow myself to be seduced by the (false) promise of making a killing. My past trading experiences were in short term momentum based swing trading of equities, so I am...

Hi Iceman: The PD bull put spread was actually the 140/135 strikes and I put the trade on yesterday. I broke my rules a bit for this trade, because I am very impatient, and I didn't wait for the pullback. I can see a New Year's resolution in there somewhere. I look for an intraday high...

I just put a credit spread on PD My basic strategy is to look for new 52 week or 5 year highs, wait for a pullback then throw on a credit spread in the front month. For PD Jan 2006 140 Jan 2006 130 credit 115 I hope the fall that you are anticipating comes after OED in Jan...

This might be somewhat related to what you are looking for. www.trendfollowing.com/whitepaper/Does_trendfollowing _work_on_stocks.pdf

I think the folks who called "Sour Grapes" are right. NGS Volume 517,200 closed 18.99 15 August 05 Volume 1,829,800 closed 31.32 12 October 05 He probably doubled between 10 and 20, and then gave it all back on the short side between 20 and 30. Moron.