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we DO have expiry and a big one and easy to answer. Right between MY strikes of 80-95 where I get NOTHING:D

I keep looking back at that move Sun nite early monday am...we could easily move between 1750 and 1800....this week. Its like the market really wants to test that 1750 and trade between 1750-1775 with a short squeez sometime to 1800...loving the vol.

good recipe for a blow up:eek:

not sure on tick charts they are the same...this is what I saw...could scare the bejebbers out of anyone....sometimes you just get faked out, esp on Sun nite

The reality is that 1) starting a business 2) working part time 3) going to school....leaves you no time to study and invest. Keep socking away the $25 and add to it as you can. When you are finished with school and have more time then start your investing career. You don't need hundreds of...

not sure what you mean...I use the 1600 tick chart...don't really focus on single bars. On a tick chart it just whooshes then moves along

Just finished the book and saw some of those interviews on youtube...very thought provoking.

I got bit. Was watching my charts and when it went down it was so sudden thought there must be something to it and sold...almost at the lows...went to bed ...tossed and turned and sure enough when I got up had to cover at (probably) the highs. This week will be volatile no question but...

right...at least for me it needs to be least 3-1 to be trending..so more of a lagging indicator. I use the 1 minute. Days where it is close or with crosses I'm more inclined to take shorter term positions. I don't use it to make a trading decision but often look at it after the fact to confirm.

I look at uvol/dvol to help define a "trend" day...fairly simple way to look at it, not to try and figure out who is doing what. also uvol/dvol is NYSE not just ES so it just gives you a "flavor" of what the broad mkt is doing

If you own a stock/fund that you really like...stable not extremely volatile then sell both the put and call 1 st dev out or so...its a little more aggressive to the upside but you can always place the put where you would like to own more of the stock.

Agree with oldn that the inverse ETFs would be better for someone not that familiar with options. The other "option" is just sell some calls on some of your "over priced" funds that offer options. Remember a hedge is not supposed to be a winning trade....you hope you will lose on your...

diagonal as a trade is fine...just not as a "income" strategy. Your asking so much from a double diagonal over a period of 31 weeks you just won't have the juice week to week. In a period of low volatility they are pretty safe if kept on a shorter time frame and as Atticus mentions used on the...

DDs can be profitable but it does matter if it trends strongly up or down .......then you will have to take on some risk on the opposite side to generate much income. You basically want the underlying to be range bound. Thhe weeklies drop off n value quickly on the ends.

Only 75 points off:eek: It definitely must have been something I ate....just glad I don't trade on guts or emg.

I can't recommend a good book on leaps. The only traders that I know of who trade leaps are doing for hedge reasons or are doing calendar spreads. Even that I don't know anyone who trades that far out....just too much risk and not enough reward. The most I go out is 3 months because my strat...

Do you mind sharing which strikes? I priced out a DEC 15 but it was 25 pts wide which is a much higher real risk and for only $2300. My margin on it was only $500 but real risk was $2500/

Missed it...on vacation ...oh we'll..hope everyone is enjoying the little Santa Clause gift of vol...

wow...no sooner than I finish my whine and we drop 4 pts...you shorts can send your check to ...GOTCHUCOVRED@paypal :p