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stopped at 1654.5

short 10690 oct

short 1652, tight stop

Are they?

He still uses TA!!! What else is he suppose to use?

Many thanks for posting. :cool:

Thanks, Alan. I've come to the conclusion that I need less leverage and buying out of the money options as protection against outlier events. Did you ever encounter a Black Swan type of event in your trading career?

Bought some Apple shares at $495 last week. Thought i would follow in the steps of Icahn :D

A couple of points: 1) a stop order is just a market order that is triggered when the price goes to that level. You're not ahead of anyone like you might be with a limit order. 2) Bid offer spreads will increase even in liquid instruments like ES. 3) prices start moving in big...

ROFL!! :D

No, they are not. I'm gonna be rude and request that you please go away. :D

Interesting, but not what I'm seeking, namely the tick by tick price movement during a spike.

August 2nd 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Apparently, oil prices immediately went from around $32 to $40 (+25%), but then collapsed to $22!! I don't have the tick data for this, so don't know the actual data points of the price path (i.e. did prices move immediately to $40 or were they going up in...

Thanks for the reply. I suspect before 9/11, the notion of jumbo jets smashing into a couple of skyscrapers in Manhattan wasn't a "realistic scenario" either. Btw, i was long ES and watching the screen just before the attacks. I was stopped out after the first crash, the market actually...

Bill has a $100,000 account. He's gonna risk 1% ($1000). Decides to go short 4 contracts of CL at exactly $100.00. He has his stop at $100.25. News comes out that a nuclear explosion has occurred in the Ghawar Field in Saudi Arabia. Probable terrorist attack. CL immediately hits $125 (lets...

if a great trade of the year candidate comes along, you should seriously look at max leverage using options.

nadal and federer were knocked out v early on. the guys who beat them, luck or skill? in any knockout tournament, there is an element of luck.

i beg your pardon?

Nitro, thanks for posting those videos. Like the guy in it, i did the same, i sent my trading record (I was trading a small account during my years in college) to various firms when i graduated from university. Didn't take long to be hired :D .

Hmmm. I played or maybe "executed" 4000 hands of blackjack recently. Owing to the house edge of about 0.45%, I should have lost about £200, instead i WON £1530. Does that prove i have an edge? Of course not! I was lucky to the tune of about 2.3 standard deviations.