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    capturing Volatility

    i like the SJ options comment haha +1 ratio backspreads in either puts and calls i've traded.. i thought at first it might have been a superior strategy but i quickly found out that its just another tool to express your view.. putting on otm ratio backspreads can have the equivalent...
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    HFT Killing Retail Traders in ES Futures - NY Times Today

    Very interesting.... most complain out of envy...
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    HFT Killing Retail Traders in ES Futures - NY Times Today

    a sucker is born everyday... if you need people to blame other then yourself for trading losses you will never make money.. i'm sure there are plenty of HFT sucker academic mathematicians that will cause plenty of market disruption for predatory small traders to feed off..
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    Entering trades at wrong place, what do you do?

    Wouldn't it make sense that trend following systems fail in trendless markets? And vice versa
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    Carey's Journal

    BOT 1 AAPL DEC 07 '12 530 Put Option 0.75 USD NASDAQOM 15:17:34 OptTrader 1.51 null sub account SLD 1 AAPL DEC 07 '12 530 Put Option 1.01 USD AMEX 15:24:03 OptTrader 1.07 null sub account quicky... things are going alot better lately.. MA fly coming in good.. and the spx trade this...
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    Favorite Websites?

    i know you meant 15 on the game.. i just was thinking about myself haha.. the first year is much harder ... getting sober is harder then staying sober.
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    Favorite Websites?

    Dec 5th.. 17 years for me yay... that guy is crazy gay for tesl
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    Favorite Websites?

    level five..
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    Favorite Websites?

    http://betterexplained.com/ i love this guys site... i love how he takes away the complexity out of math.. like taking power away from the academics that find their self esteems in how much they know.. and talk way over your head just to see you look confused
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    Favorite Websites?

    i love this guys site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Carey's Journal

    i like this guys site alot.. i'm trying to get a foundation so i can eventually understand whats really going in all these models people are talking about.. http://betterexplained.com/
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    AAPL: Buying the Dips!

    just remember value is a slippery idea in the first place.. if you take a company that has had outrageous growth in the past 5 to 10 years.. and it becomes the largest capitalized stock why does it not make sense that it trades at a very fair value.. price to earnings is a metric used to find...
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    Carey's Journal

    go managed?
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    AAPL: Buying the Dips!

    how do you figure all this information your getting about margin , deliveres isn't overly priced in right now.. not a very wide shoulder for a head a shoulders to me.. confusing times..
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    atticus' single-name delta book

    wow.. i'm only in that MA fly..which should actually start working for me now. was looking at aapl flys and credit spreads the other day.. would have hurt! interested in the flat skew comment about aapl..
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    Looking for specific options scanner

    i get it.. i do like to make it about myself. and i wish i could use that software :) don't mind my sarcasm.. but my point was that your taking a position size when investing in tools just like other things.. maybe his size makes sense of that platform.. my impression it wasn't.. my bad.
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    Looking for specific options scanner

    thanks for sharing.. where do i donate for the advice you give? haha capacity to trade super cedes any particular leverage created by size.
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    F U E.t.

    i first heard that term when i was in rehab.. <<<reading antifragile (taleb) i don't exactly quote him .. but he mentions how much easier it is to teach a street smart business /dealer quant methods and trade successfully as it is some higher level academic.. SLE commented about how...
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    F U E.t.

    Ha that does sound right... but you do have to embrace a certain amount of randomness.. and I totally agree about the inner self thing... the more you intellectualize and deduct the more likely you'll be wrong
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    F U E.t.

    your self talk reminds me of mine... i dont' really hate myself.. its just easier to talk myself into folding and go back into my mental hole of risk adversity. you can't avoid randomness or risk... so embrace it.. is what i try to tell myself..
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