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the sell off pre cash market is overdone, i reckon a bit more of a slide, before a rally taking us to 1960

went short at 1962, out at 1935! d'oh

The $22 billion is not to prop up markets..it's being used to provide some liquidity for banks which have probably taken some hits from the stock market volatility.

This tells me you are a smart young man (i know because i was going to be an actuary, but i found it too dull, so i went into trading, anyway..). Your future career is a high paying one. Concentrate on it. Save your money in a savings account. Don't do any stock market investment...yet. Read up...

Stopped at 1978

hope it takes me out, i'm not convinced one bit... bear trap

short 1967.5, small amount only since i ain't convinced....stop 2000!

sellindexvol66, how did u fare last week?

Yes. But you are talking a lot of money before it becomes a problem.

Very interesting, thanks for posting. I'm guessing that these types of funds are really only for institutional funds who want some protection against bad things happening and willing to invest maybe 5% of their funds. I'm also guessing that the long vol funds have hefty annual fees since most of...

I think it is more to do with the size of the moves that you are looking for. I don't normally daytrade, but last week, i did a lot of intraday trading solely because i expected there would be big moves intraday that could be exploited.

I like this thread. But i see a lot of economic/fundamental bias rather than alignment with the reality of the market price.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/29/federal-reserve-stanley-fischer-rate-increase-inflation

http://jonboorman.com/an-evening-with-ed-seykota/

isnt $8000, a 4 figure sum?

oil up 20% from the year lows!

max drawdown is 4.5%, not 6% leda braga no longer works with platt, has her own fund now (spun off from Bluecrest) bluecrest main fund lost money in the past couple of years Copyright: Visaria

out at 79, just didn't like trade

long 79, stop 65

I don't believe that the retail public have actually entered this market yet, they have been on the sidelines for the last 7 years imo, hence my call for not only the record highs to be broken this year , but 3000 on the sp500 by end of next year.