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In my experience adjustments work fine if they are part of the original trade plan e.g. open a single calendar -> market moves -> turn into double calendar The ones that I have found not to work are the ones where people sit on their hands and pray, then adjust when the position becomes too...

Do they have a bankroll and were they good traders? If its yes to both then maybe learn the poker tour or learn how to sportsbet

Similar thing happened here in Australia this week We had 27.3K jobs created V expectation of -24.9 loss Could the recession be really over?

Wow - even HSBC isnt immune in this crisis

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d5aa24e-23a4-11...?nclick_check=1 Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Published: April 7 2009 20:02 | Last updated: April 7 2009 20:02 1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small. Nothing should ever become...

Im hoping my sarcasm radar is broken and you are not serious about what you just posted

That 1.5% spread could be attributed to the increase in women whoring or stripping. There seemed to be a lot more articles about that trend in the past few months

AIG, knowing it would need to ask for much more capital from the Treasury imminently, decided to throw in the towel, and gifted major bank counter-parties with trades which were egregiously profitable to the banks, and even more egregiously money losing to the U.S. taxpayers, who had to dump...

I thought I read coca cola! If the US stops drinking coke then you know its really bad

LoL - its so true Funnier still is that they tease frugal indians by calling them "paki's"

Im definitely not an expert in economics or bubbles so perhaps we can look at the problem visually? If we were to overlay chart patterns of bubbles say Nasdaq Nikkei Crude Housing with a chart of treasuries...... Could we then compare the similarities and differences and decide if...

Ive been doing some calendars and I have a question about the skew on index options Now I trade the XJO options on the ASX, probably the equivalent of the SPX options. There are futures on the XJO called SPI options, probably the equivalent of the Emini S&P options Now Ive been told...

I would like to develop some skills in programming some of my trading ideas so that it can be automated I did some programming in C++ for a year in University over 10 years ago, so its been a while and I havent kept up to date on the current trends I would like to know where I can start to...

Maybe my sarcasm meter is a little off but is this a serious question?

Thanks for the reply Mark The example shown was just theoretical and I just wanted to get a discussion going The way I see it there seems to be a lot of people who trade iron condors. This strategy is similar to the double calendar or double diagonal in that you want the market to stay...

Great analogy. So back to my original question, it has taken me years to find what works for me trading wise and find my strengths and weaknesses through trial and error. Is there a way or method to help speed up this process of discovery?

Ive been trading for a few years and tried pretty much all markets and all trading styles. Ive finally found a niche where I can make money as the trading style suits my psychological profile. I found options trading works for me and for short term trading in futures or fx I found I was...

Hi Option Punters I've been doing some modelling using options oracle and have been doing some work with diagonals. I just wanted to hear peoples experience with these tricky spreads Here is an example on the SPX SPX @ 880 I am bearish the market so I would like to sell an OTM bear...

I blame Bellringer Buffet

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