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    Close it for a nice profit, hold it, or adjust?

    1) No one ever went broke taking a profit. There's a reason for that old saying. 2) You may be misjudging your future rate of return. Fairly common, I think. Example: * buy sumpin' for $100. * it goes up to $200. What's your rate of return? Duh, 100%, right? - YES * you hang...
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    Deep in the money Options

    Excellent points. Particularly about buying some OTM protective options. Note that OTM, when they hit their sweet spot, -rapidly- appreciate, and if done in a type of ratio position, can help offset the loss in your deep options. 'course, between the vast spreads on deeps and the cost of...
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    What is the name of this strategy?

    Whenever dealing with these kind of positions that have more legs than a centipede, you have to be very mindful of commissions and bid/ask spreads. Paper trading this stuff, you don't have to deal with the reality of actually getting a fill at an attractive price when entering & exiting...
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    Why Fat is the Preferred Fuel for Human Metabolism

    Tell us what you really think, my mon :) Gundry is a world re-known heart surgeon and has done the research w/numbers to substantiate his position. In addition, having sliced on many, many fat slobs hitting his operating slab, he does have an interesting perspective. He also went from being...
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    options or futures

    Contact your broker and ask them to explain the term 'Pattern Day Trader' and how they handle that. You may be surprised...
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    Trading and Dating/social status

    +1 Confidence + Results = Success with the babes :D
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    Why Fat is the Preferred Fuel for Human Metabolism

    Yup; you're welcome. Also, part of what I tried to say and couldn't, as I'm new here and my posts don't clear/show up until overnight(hard to edit that way) is: * Instead of focusing so much on what NOT to eat/do, start with adding 'the right stuff' into your diet. Later, you can evaluate...
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    Why Fat is the Preferred Fuel for Human Metabolism

    Well, I'll dive into this quagmire, even tho I'm new on this forum. * Been experimenting on diet since 1979. No, doesn't make me an 'authority', but I do have 30+ yrs experience in a dietary study on ONE person :) * Tried just about everything 'cept the "let's overdose on bacon diet"...
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    Trading and Dating/social status

    Depending upon the situation and the effect I want to have on someone: * I'm retired. Means anything and nothing. Doesn't give a clue to real $$. Implies at least enough money to prevent dumpster diving for the next meal. Usual effect is zero. And, since most people love to tawk about...
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    What is the easiest way to file a tax return for a high volume day trader?

    +1 Easy to do. And, as long as you're not cheating, if the IRS does want/need something, just deal with 'em. They're not out to wipe you out, they just want their $share$. The trading records at the brokerage company ain't goin' anywhere and aren't gonna change either, so it's just a...
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    Opinion for a strategy?

    New to the board here(first post, actually), but I'd offer up the following on this strategy: * As others indicated, probably not gonna work, cuz you need a massive move to pull it off. * It -could- work if you have a fairly reliable indicator of a near term move in your direction. So...
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