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So basically it might go up or down, seems your perfectly hedged

I'd go along with that, choppy, ending flat - ish

Anyone fancy stickin ther neck out and predicting whats gonna happen to the SnP today ?

Whilst I was a derivtives traderI sold naked call options 6% OTM with 2 weelks until expiry with at least 17% implied volatility, if the market had ever visited these stikes I would not sell them, carried this out from 1996 to 98 and it worked very successfully, ythose 2 weeks til expiry were...

Tell me about it, their shakin those trees again, and I've fallen out head first !

I myself day trade the indices, and I stongly advise newbies not even to take a sniff at this unless u paper trade it for a year, then take a look at your loss, if u've learnt something papertrade for another year and if u break even then it may show some promise. If you do dive in use only 5 %...

So i'm sitting up here in my office/junk room, I've got an order on and I'm out if I get 10 ticks, markets giving me 9 and I'm shouting, - real loud - "Fill, Fill, Fil, Fill u F*cker, my new neighbour is yelling back to me something, beginning with "what, what" followed by several expletives - ...

Index spreads are very very tight if u use a good provider

:D , brings a tear to my eye every time i remember it

I'd prefer to be long since 1970

So i'm sitting up here in my office/junk room, I've got an order on and I'm out if I get 10 ticks, markets giving me 9 and I'm shouting, - real loud - "Fill, Fill, Fil, Fill u F*cker, my new neighbour is yelling back to me something, beginning with "what, what" followed by several expletives - ...

I play many online games, mainly checkers & backgammon, of which by accident i'm becoming a master, search endlessly on ebay for oddities and throw a few very small lots into the futures markets just to get a "feel" of whats happening, boredom in this game is a huge problem when u feel u just...

My reference is to the futures markets chart traders, not to Buy, hold and pray stock pickers. surprise me

Interesting idea huh, if the stats are right and 97% of us are all losing trying to win, how about trying to lose ? don't tell anyone, its my secret edge :D

away from fast stochastics, momentum etc , lets face it, your instincts are wrong. Oh My God its gonna dump any minute now ! = buy WOW this is brewing up for a massive rally = Sell Try and lose money, i think you'll be surprised how well u wont. works for me :cool:

unfortunatly not most of the time ....:p

timing is everything:p

Just out of interest, what type of arbitrage, most seem to be just stock pickers on here, I myself do index arbitrage.

Writing uncovered call options with exploding volatility hence the 220,000K margin call one day before expiry. Gamma trading ouch !