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post your entries and exits..

+1. I'd love to see some ET speculations on both

I was talking in reference to tos

Buying or swelling

Wtf is wrong with you people..... I bet you would follow someone right off a cliff

To be is to be perceived buddy.. :). Berkeley

Do you trade these?

by the way.. i'm in college now... i just don't weight it as highly as some..

i am absolutely sure i learned more about business in middle school selling dope more then i ever did in college.. being good in college just makes you good at going to college.. its like paper trading ... learning discipline has its merits though.. i think the best education is...

Seems hard to game overnight jumps... its binary and probably really random.. that low vol blinking a tick up then blinking a tick down seems like torture trading... mean revert intra session highs and lows seems like a game for people of size with a small edge

i tried to short that zig zag in the last hour of trade.. it broke up.. i reversed went long.. didn't do enough to make anything on the second trade.. -58 bucks.. i might make a new rule for myself.. don't trade direction in ES when vol is low!.. its a noisey mess and i'm new so i don't have a...

+ BOT 1 MA - JAN 18 '13 + FEB 15 '13 530 Call Calendar Spread 10.38 USD SMART 15:36:10 OptTrader 1.41 null sub account

SLD 5K EUR EUR.USD Cash 1.33381 USD IDEALPRO 14:55:39 ChartTrader1743585398 2.50 null sub account now i'm 20k short.. to what number exact number idk.. but i'm not in green numbers even with the other trades from before and the puts..

+ SLD 1 AAPL - JAN 18 '13 + JAN 25 '13 535 Call Calendar Spread 10.70 USD SMART 13:31:52 OptTrader 1.43 null sub account feeling pain on Euro..

this is just my understanding.. typically premium is just that.. a premium.. in that case.. being long will mean that you need to time your hedges to scalp more gamma then the premium theta burn.. So generally speaking its bad to speak generally.. there are so many securities with so many...

i'm still short.. only 15k.. i was only 5k short at 1.30625 added 10k at 1.32250 so i'm 15k short.. taken alot of heat! at this point i obviously didn't reliaze it was going to go up as far as it did.. when it compressed down into the 1.30500 area i figured it would break down...

yeah you neutral at that very moment.. thats the point i was trying to make..

i just was thinking about this thread while i was spacing off eariler.. i have spent many hours thinking and reading about term structure trading in options.. I am new to options trading.. will consider myself new to the deal for years i know there are so many nuances to learn.. But what i was...

thats why i was saying its hard to isolate just vol... its like you have to have accompanied speculations with the other associated risks..

eyeballing it.. saying.. if this.. then that in your head.. cool just wondering .. probably be just as messy if you put math to it..