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risk, Have you sold any CME premium this month? Also, short basket vols seems to be doing well on the correlation trade. How are the constituent vols reacting in this environment? Thx

It looks like the smart money is turning things around in the BSE Sensex. In the words of Carl Spakler, "It's a real cinderella story".

Agreed. The web developer should be shot!lol :D

I hope my post didn't come off critical or judgemental, I'm just trying to understand your reasoning. I'm quite new to the Forex market, so I'm just trying to get a feel for it. I usually trade gamma, but I might take a small spec EUR long into the meeting tomorrow. I'm a bit perplexed that the...

Do you have any empirical evidence of this? Does this also mean to say that if ECB raises rates, probability favors a EUR rally? EDIT: After looking at the past 3 rate increases on Dec. 6, Mar. 8, Jun.15 the daily range on those days were miniscule. It seems the ECB meeting's recently...

Time frame?

Great advice, Thank you segv! -vp

I was out all day at parties and could barely read the computer screen with one eye open. Last night at the time it looked like MO cracked the DaVinci code to me. Okay, rational thinking in settling in now, it looks pretty hilarious today, LOL. I asked the mod to delete my response but I...

Thanks Mo for giving us a peek inside your mind. Without hedging off any risk in these naked positions, you must constantly monitor these positions, no? Also, do you have a predetermined bailout strategy? I was trying to do a contingent sell stop GTC market order on my condor's but ThinkorSwim...

You 2 are some "wild and crazy guys". You remind me of the Festrunk Brothers. C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\snl54.jpg How in the hell do you show pics on a post? Its' like impossible with all the coding and shit you gotta do. Anyway this is supposed to be a funny pic of the...

A truly remarkable fall from grace story. If he can make a comeback, anyone can. http://www.nickleeson.com/ Pimp, out. :p

that's 390 bips higher than the July ATM's are currently trading. Should we get the $$ from under the mattress's and buy vol here, palms IN, if you will?

Thank you, and sorry if I sounded disrespectful to the good folks on this thread. It was my kneejerk reaction after that huge loss. imo, trading volatility is more stable(and easier to forecast). I hav'ent given up on directional trading, but need to smooth out the equity curve and develop...

Anyone know when they plan to roll out the price improvement mechanism? CBOE To Adopt PIP For Open Outcry 05/22/06 Click here to print this article The Chicago Board Options Exchange wants to adopt a penny price improvement process for open-outcry trading on the floor o provide better...

OMFG.:eek: :eek: out at 127150. that hurt. Directional trading is for suckers. I was up 7500 deltas on the day too. I was right, the s/l didn't get hit at 1268.

short another 5 @ 126500. s/l @1268 :)

mental stop 126600. getting close. w/ the fed imminent, a stop loss will do me no good, imo.

I'm a total ES Newb. Expecting a 4 handle selloff, short 20 es futs @126400. Expect to close after announcement. I need to find another broker, I'm being charged $4K per, shouldn't intraday margin be much better?

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Found it! http://goldenfiddle.com/node/3947#comment