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The Nude Beach A mother and father took their 6 year old son to a nude beach. As the boy walked along the beach, he noticed that some of the ladies had boobs bigger than his mother's, and asked her why. She told her son, "The bigger they are the dumber the person is." The boy...

This year, and every year, just depends on your strategy and experience IMHO and don't discount the "luck factor." I'm having my best year since '00, and except for a few option writes, I've only traded stocks from the long side this year. Good trading to all. C

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Yeah, thanks guys...I keep getting fills of 232 and 471, etc, on my round lot orders... Oh well, a profit's a profit! :D

Hanksurfer, It's kinda hard to tell from the above posts (talk about obfuscation, sheesh...), so did Taleb lose money in his funds? If he mostly bought way out-of-the-money index options, then I'd say he did lose money. And Vic N mentioned that he was "glad to sell all those OTM ops to...

LOL Good trading to you! :cool:

jim c, huh? You woudn't be the Jim C. that's always screaming on TV...would you? :D

I probably should be clearer - I don't "add" to losing positions per se. My system takes trades when called for. It buys and sells according to set parameters. It may take a new position on a stock that recently was a bad trade. No big deal. A trade's a trade and over time the profits out...

Looks like the IV of the put is twice the IV of the call. I don't remember seeing that before on close month, same strike ops. This makes put-call parity way out of whack. That put should be about 0.80. I must be missing something. No such thing as free lunch - at least for retail traders...

Nope. Ain't gonna happen. This is certainly a concern, but not when you only use 5% of account for the whole position. Can't be too careful! :D Well, I can tell you one that isn't working: FWHT OUCH! :(

The truth is, adding to losers from the long side pays off over time. It doesn't work as well from the short side. Yeah. I know. It's a terrible trading practice...etc, etc... but it does work, if done correctly. What is correctly? Figure it out. I have years of profits from this...

Pretty funny. Yep, there it is on my shelf too...never made it past half way...

I don't get it. These supposed "trend followers" haven't banked huge coin with oil??? Sure, it has ups and downs, and that's the tricky part of staying with the trend, but these guys should have worked all that out...

Speaking of Jimi -Imagine what he could have done...if he'd played that Strat right side up!!! :D

Props to you if you can axe Crazy Train and Eruption! Awesome songs.

Anything by Randy Rhoads (i.e. Crazy Train) Let's not forget Duane Allman. Can anybody else play slide like him? Jimi, Randy, Duane...died too young...

You may be able to get some inspiration from this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0887309569/qid=1114387225/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3434802-4260650?v=glance&s=books Can you make millions like Buzzy? Sure, but this was 20 years ago. And you'd need to be enormously talented...

some pretty good insults and flames going on here... it probably should be moved to chit chat, but there it would surely die. you guyz are always good for a few chuckles. laughter is the best medicine! :D

Promoting hearsay and innuendo as documented "facts" could easily involve a subpoena and court hearing. It's foolish to think IB would bother to pull tricky stuff like this, when they are so profitable. I wouldn't blame IB and def if they sicked the law dawgs on your sorry ass for...