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    Greg Coffey retires from (no) Moore Capital

    Is the "Bacon" in Louis Bacon actually pronounced as it reads?
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    Bernanke caught drunk

    This was posted here last year! But it's still good :D
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    CL Redux

    Was looking for a big move down, didn't happen.
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    CL Redux

    stopped out at 8520
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    CL Redux

    Is this storm not going to affect the Gulf of Mexico? I assume not.
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    CL Redux

    Short 8490
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    CL Redux

    The New York Mercantile Exchange, a commodity futures exchange, also will be shutting on Monday its trading floor which is located in a mandatory evacuation zone. The CME Group, which owns NYMEX, said all electronic markets will open at their regularly scheduled times.
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    CL Redux

    3x as much stockpiled, no wonder it spiked down.
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    CL Redux

    No need to catch the knife...
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    gaps in the emini ES

    I've been slipped on stops during RTH on ES.
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    CL Redux

    :D I was lucky and let two trades run, +50 on each!
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    If you hold overnight positions/swing trade, how do you hedge against gaps up/down?

    Ok, you have a point. I think of margin sort of differently in that I nominally fund my trading.
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    If you hold overnight positions/swing trade, how do you hedge against gaps up/down?

    Not true. :D
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    CL Redux

    A good day for scalping :D
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    CL Redux

    It's probably the same or maybe slightly better. I have traded it in the past. But i feel more familiar with NYMEX so I am sticking to that one. Also Brent has slightly annoying (London) times as to when it opens and closes. Note that Brent is THE world benchmark for oil price discovery, not WTI.
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    If you hold overnight positions/swing trade, how do you hedge against gaps up/down?

    No, i was fortunate in that i had a tight stop and was taken out after the first plane hit. The market, after stopping me out actually went back up a bit and then suddenly smashed down after the 2nd plane hit. If i had a larger stop in that particular case, i would have had huge slippage, or...
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    If you hold overnight positions/swing trade, how do you hedge against gaps up/down?

    Not true.
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    If you hold overnight positions/swing trade, how do you hedge against gaps up/down?

    Use no leverage on overnight positions. I don't. Btw, that's still no guarantee than you will not be blown out (eg short some stock which then more than doubles overnight because of a takeover). I note that you are asking about overnight gaps. What about during the day? I had LONG positions...
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    CL Redux

    Trade 1 contract for a week and see if you experience slippage on stops on that.
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    CL Redux

    I don't trade 30-70 contracts so i can't say. I can certainly tell you i've had slippage of 10 ticks on a LOT less than 30 contracts in RTH.
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