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I've looked at introductory stuff, and that's why I'm asking these questions. I can't figure it out from the basics I've read. Futures options don't seem to work the way stock options do. I found the contract specs...

I often want to take bets in both directions near the same time. I understand futures options allow you to do this and I know the basic terminology, but I'm having trouble understanding the way they work. Below is the options chain that comes up for my futures contract right now (there are lots...

You've cursed me... -650 -940 -990 Nothing Thur -1860 This week was very interrupted. I prepped Mon Wed and Thur for my hearing Friday. Nonetheless, I think it's back to 1 lots. I also still can't get it thru my thick skull to take a short today. 5k in the pit.

And... more fuck up... Got out as it looked bad, and my entry is horrible. Shitty lag I can't get in fast enough. All the classic signs of reversal... uggh this makes me fucking sick...

My strategy is too simple - I don't think that's possible. I've seen day in and out the same thing happening for a year+ now. The only thing stopping me from making a living from trading is mistakes and interruptions. Here's how today played out in my head. I only considered 3 trades. Nearly...

But we're not getting any younger.

-990 -360 +1200 -1430 +80 Really frustrating week... A couple days were cut short due to mandatory appts but that wouldn't have affected my results too much. I was positioned properly to make about 10k this week on just 3 trades. I need to figure something else out. Too many lines causes me to...

For sure... I just should be making more...

+200 +410 +1450 +510 Nothing Fri Missed the 10 point short today... 730 is too early.. really need to go east coast...

I thought I mentioned it; last Fri was possible couple thousand... today again the open short I saw and wanted to take went ten points... that's just 2 recent days! On 6 lots those are at least 1k each! The point is I can easily see how it's possible to day trade for a comfortable living. Just...

I made $1973.81 total in March.

+3380 [Trades] - 1406.19 [Commission] for Mar Subtract two days from Mar and I'd have made 10k. Subtract all the trades I skip, can't take due to horseshit obligations/lag, and ones I don't hold and I think it'd be like 30k. The delay is becoming unbearable on my platform; Often it won't...

Why keep it there? To day trade six lots it costs 3k. The max I imagine I'll ever do is like 15, which would be 7,500. Don't think I'll have a 25k draw down, the worst has been like 5k I think in 2 years?

-210 -110 -2750 +1880 Nothing Fri I withdrew 25k from my account, back to 30k~ So angry at myself for Wed. I didn't sell one time... Thur I didn't take the first couple trades I saw since I have lost confidence due to recent bad results. It was also an interrupted trading day, had the usual...

+700 -3860 -350 +1690 +700 Traded way too much on Tue. Didn't take the best long of the day after losing 3 times. I also didn't see it likely due to psych damage. I had been wrong 3 times by then and I was wrong 2 more when I tried to sell the uptrend after I missed the long. Seems like there...

It's a very long story so I'll try to summarize; my military life's been made torture by supervisors in the past 5 years. Even before I'd joined the military I never worked well under people. I work in medicine, and the supervisors I've had essentially say I'm not competent to do my job, which...

Well yes I am a custodial engineer bc seems like all I do is clean up other peoples shit ... as long as I get paid! -150 -320 +1300 -630 +1160 Very interrupted trading week... Found out this week I have to prep for a hearing. Tue late AM I was interrupted with work nonsense Wed I didn't take...

What do you do when you're right three times in a row before 10 am?

With what I've seen in the last month~, I'll probably be full time once I separate in May 2016.

The longer it takes for your order to get to the exchange from your computer, the worse your fill will be esp if the market is moving fast like it does at the open. I don't use hard stops, I usually exit at market or use a limit depending on the time. I don't like the idea of having resting...