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I don't judge or assume anything, just make sure I understand the discussion as I am very open minded, it's never my way or the highway. Especially in trading.

Would you provide some samples of these please?

I think it's important to note that you do not wait for the turn, is it because you lack bar/candlestick education or you just don't find it reliable ? Thank you for your contribution in this thread.

Why is ET so full of doomers and gloomers ? Yet the market has gone nowhere but up in the past 3 years. Just out... U.S. Senate passes bill to fund federal government for 6 months, putting off a shutdown. Bill now goes to president. Don't fight the fed, it's dumb, embrace it...

Good reasoning.

I constantly swap from brokers and bank accounts. When things are going well, I transfer back to banks. When things are not doing well, I fund from the banks. Trade options using good leverage so works for me and at the same time I minimize the risk of having my capital in non FDIC...

Please do not derail and be considerate, the main topic remains, Averaging Down. If you would like to discuss pivots, or trendlines, or pink elephants, please begin your own discussion. Thank you

I was only referring to that guy's post, I would not know much about trendlines as I am a moving average kind of trader.

Please refer to this post in the thread. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3631104#post3631104

If we are talking about the trade Dustin posted, I strongly disagree, except I don't think he saw it because based on a chart someone posted here earlier, he started earlier. Maybe he did not want to miss it, not sure of the intentions.

I think he said, at his max pain.

It's important to be open minded in trading. However, if you choose not to be, I kindly ask you to at least exercise respect in my thread. Thank you

The roulette would have paid twice as much and quicker, but only 48.65% chance of winning if playing with 1 Zero :)

I don't think the inherited nature of the instrument is as important as it's current price action structure when studied in 2 or more timeframes. At some point every instrument qualifies, including AAPL.

Some good input by obvious experienced traders so thank you for taking the time to participate. I think a key consideration is that averaging down works exponentially better in certain market conditions and exponentially worse in others. It's up to the traders to determine the structure of...

Dustin you close your positions before the close correct? Thank you.

Perv :)

Bad questions sometimes provide an education, I never suggested I would take any of the gambles suggested, just an open to discussion to promote that, discussion.

Ya, absolutely, this makes a huge difference in terms of house odds.

You know something we don't ? Because there's a huge chance those puts expire worthless this Friday.