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    How do you trade strats with american options?

    I don't drink... I substitute sbux... It rarely pays to excise options early.. Basically the almost always trade over intrinsic...... Maybe when the stock is hard to borrow... or deep in the money around dividend......
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    How do you trade strats with american options?

    Seems like a very common concern for people starting out... there's a lot more important things to worry about..
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    Need historical minute data - good source?

    IB data is snapshot....
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    the worst trade I did recently

    Shoulda woulda coulda is like a disease... interesting story for sure... I would have a headache after seeing that... you just can't escape human emotion completely..
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    Then came Ivy Bridge - E 12 cores!!!

    Ahhhh... expensive buying shit right when it hits.. plus you are the first reviewer
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    How many of you are classified as traders?

    what are you talking about?
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    Fading Yen - It has gone parabolic

    Hard to follow what's going on... build losses into future trades?
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    What to read after Natenberg?

    Baird was very good .. Options market making.. very clear and concise.. its not a very big book...
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    Seagate Ships its First Desktop and 3rd Gen Laptop Hybrid HD

    i personally think theres an abundence in hard disk platter style drives .. this is just another way to sell them.. SSD only for me for my boot disk
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    The Timicator Undicator

    ok.. here i am.. haha what is that..
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    Say it aint so? Rally may be in 7th or 8th inning??

    +1.... bad idea getting caught up in narratives.. sure.. free money all that.. i'd like to see how many of these guys are actually putting on short positions.. rather then just looking for confirming opinions relative to their view..
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    Plunge Protection Team (PPT)'s buy button is stuck, market hits new highs

    if you think downside distribution is undervalued buy it.. posts some trades.. otherwise your a talking head
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    Iris

    vix futures? ag spreads?
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    Are there any options that has a daily volume of 50K Contracts or more ?

    this page.. download the csv.. http://www.cboe.com/data/AvgDailyVolArchive.aspx
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    Carey's Journal

    your right.... the calcs are way off :) i gotta mess with it some more.. i'd like to come up with something of a decent particular use to us.. i keep thinking about looking at a surface of the vix curve.. something like the z axis being the price action of every expiration...
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    Carey's Journal

    basically its all wrong.. :) i'm not passing a function i am using from Quantlib the right shieettt... its looking at it as if its one maturity..5/12 .. its looking at it as if the price of the underlying is 459 with yesterdays options prices.. needs some tweaking the function ...
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    Carey's Journal

    i just grabbed all the puts over the entire term structure.. i could trim it back to atm .50 delta.. the entire point of this was merely an exercise..... i know it sort of looks cool and novel.. but it might not have practical use.. but as i become more proficient with R... maybe i'll...
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    What to read after Natenberg?

    who cares... take what you want leave what you dont... you can get some nugs out of that dynamic hedging book... there are tons of people that are full of themselves out there.. i don't care.. stuff is all off subject anyway..
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    Carey's Journal

    APPLE vol surface in R... stuff ive been fooling around with.. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/93790705@N06/8530340752/" title="ivxdelta by cdcaveman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8528/8530340752_00f331f55c_b.jpg" width="911" height="737" alt="ivxdelta"></a>
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