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Same here.

Tradernik, No interest in argueing or anything. Just wanted to explain why I asked the question as I see it was quoted here. B1S2's stop loss I think is on the larger side as he placed it below the last reaction low (which most likely will be daily/weekly). That's why I asked him the...

B1S2, Thanks. Yes, it is usually more than for intraday and agree on the timeframes. Some more questions. First, like to say I am not that familiar with your grails. If I'm correct, it is usually something to do with divergences (seen from macd and rsi).Anyway, not much of an indicator...

Thanks. I highly suspect that you were out near the highs instead of waiting for your stop loss to be taken out. If even half of your stop loss were to be taken out, then this method will not be good as one has given up a reasonably large portion of the profits back (regadless of whatever time...

B1S2, When you say get out after an 'obvious reversal', is your reversal usually at the top ( eg: if you are long futures), rather than at the bottom/valley? That means you are usually out way before your trailing stop loss level. Thks Volente, Great questions. Many of the questions such...

I may be totally wrong but I like method 2 the best as one have used the 'scare tactic by market' to benefit on both sides ie : getting a better price for the futures/stock while profiting from the short side (which acts as a hedge and income producing instrument). So what is meant as shaking...

B1S2, Thanks. You mentioned that : 'By the way, what I meant with the adding shorts would be a net position of shorting, You would have sold your longs with part of your sale.' In your situation (where long term you are still bullish but short term you are bearish, would you 1) have...

ok. Thanks rallymode

Momoney. Thanks. I must be dreaming when I wrote about stock price moving far and thus not good for long straddle. :D I do have another question pls. I went to search the post where I initially found the idea. Ok, some correction to my earlier statement. The post mentioned : Quote...

Can someone clarify this. Thanks. I've heard before and this was also mentioned here to buy the front month straddle 1 week before the earnings and to sell it just before the earnings release due to volatility increasing going into earnings. Surely there must be some risks involved as no...

Curious. What's the success rate, how long do you usually hold and how long have you been doing it. Thanks.

B1S2, Thanks. I understand what you mean. Have given it a bit more thought and decide that I should not play with it intraday unless I believe that day is going to be a trend day (if its not a trend day, more often than not one is going to lose--at least from my experience). I may then choose...

No outages but my esignal refused to give me level II for some stocks although the time and sales was working.

Buy1sell2, Ok, I can generally agree with what you are saying about taking whole profits and not scaling out as I've given it thought and run through my past experiences and tested out different scenarios logically (although I initially did not agree). However, there are 1 or 2 scenarios...

Buy1sell2, I have a question (scenario type question) that I would like to ask with regards to the scaling out thread.. Not interested in argueing or anything but would like to know how you would handle this as I'm trying to learn. If you are willing to answer I will post the question here...

Thanks hispatrader

Are you using a different name? There's no name matching 'hispatrader' in traderslaboratory.com. Thanks

Bolter, Thanks for the thread. Pitbulltrader, Will be interested in yours also if you so wish to start a new thread or to include it in this thread (if Bolter feels so)

IMHO, the problem with options is that it curtails your profit a fair bit if you are right and you can't exit out with smaller loss than stocks if you are wrong. It does however protect you from horrible gaps. That's why I'm thinking I may have to hedge by buying options if I want to hold...

thanks