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I don't know if this is just a speculative high risk account or what... but it sounds pretty concentrated... only if its not all of your retirement ;)

you always hear about commodities traders busting or making billions.. more bust though.. like Julia Dreyfus deep pockets as a result of her father..

this is how it started for me.. born in the late seventys myself "This is out of our reach, this is out of our reach This is out of our reach and it's grown" <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2eS5EMYb5hQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> and...

haha well if your long the front month.. obviously you stand only to gain in tail events.. i thought you were spreading more and playing the curve.. i'm new at all this.. i find it interesting that you have it calculated how many bp's your losing by involving yourself in the vxx short term...

man floor traders seem to have such an exciting crazy life.. so attractive to me.. i need to scream degradation to people .. or get degraded and show off how much better i am then everyone.. damn i missed the boat.. haha... the pictures painted of the floor of these exchanges seem so...

yeah.. i'm familar with the roll cost..i haven't quantified it as you have other then in a lost trade on going long the vixy and holding.. which got me into the futures directly.. so we are essentially talking about the same thing.. but the difference is your staying in the one month and not...

is that code..

i'm in a fly with long deltas in dec..

so your taking positions on the precieved value of the future related to the spot and direction in the front month... tough space to trade.. lot of risk up.. lot of current down in the futures ... the entire bleed shows up in the vix etfs... looking at a long term chart on those will show you...

hes just building his thesis for his short apple trade and trying to do it at your expense.. not constructive.. aapl has done this before.. overpriced iphones.. it made the ipod obsolete with the iphone... yes it does cannibalized it self.. it was part of Steves strategy.. read the book..

do you have some system your using to generate signals on directional trades in the futures? you seem to be half playing direction half playing the curve... ?

there is a cost of carry... but its nothing considering the time your in and out.. and yes.. the sale of the same strike put to the purchase of a call offsets the theta.. covering a long position in a day trade would be to sell a call and buy a put.. conversion is what its called...

Ratio meaning -1/+2/-1 sequence.... Or are you talking +1/-2 kinda thing. Do you ever go short the front month calender.. (+1/-1) if you think that vol is to low and the curve is to linear or flat.

Funny that's the first result....

looking to dig in to getting more fluent in dealing with excel.... anysuggestions? Here are the top results for amazon. are anynof these any good..... ive rate myself a 2 out of 10 rating when it comes to programming.. I want more flexibility..... I currently use hoadley... .

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if you were buying the straddle to gamma scalp the underlying or other options.. and you didn't want to own the straddle through earnings..you'd dump it.. anything i think might super tank i would buy otm puts on..

all this gives me the impression that these are customized products that your proprietorially involved with just one dealer with..... what you can't market your deal to others?

see what happens to this by friday.. seems to broke down a little bit.. + BOT 3 TBT NOV 02 '12 - (2) 61.5 + (1) 60 + (1) 62 Put Combo -0.11 USD SMART 15:20:15 OptTrader 4.68 null i keep changing my limit order to increase my commission cost.. your welcome IB

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