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I lost a few stoxxpoints when my connection to tws broke in the middle of a trade (that will learn me to put in hard stops), and for the fuckup trade that followed (own stubbornness, wanted to 'get back at the market') summary for the day: FESX DEC 03;BOT;1;2556.00;14:04:48;20031120;DTB...

DMB im from the Netherlands :p Tiki

Today I traded my IB account for the first time, and opened the following positions: SHORT MOO straddle 6 - december LONG MOO Call 7 - december LONG MOO Put 5 - december SHORT MOO straddle 6 - april04 LONG 2xMOO call 7 - april04 LONG 2xMOO put 5 - april04 *note I fucked this one up...

I just opened an account at IB a few days ago, all went well, set the markets I wanted to trade, and went on :) The Netherlands-Futures & Options [x] Had that one, however, now im only 'allowed' to trade the futures and futures options, NOT the stock options (even though they are listed in...

Today, my account funding at IB was confirmed. From now on im trading from my IB account, still the dutch markets however!! Tiki

The mother fuckers even gave me a fine for keeping stock overnight. That did it, I liquidated my positions and closed my account with this firm. Total Loss: €900 Opening account at IB. Tiki

This morning, while I was sound asleep, my broker CLOSED my short position MOO (which was, at that moment, at a positive position, and tanking down), REMOVING the hedge for the put options I was still short. I did not notice this until 3 hours later and closed the put options out with a big...

The disclaimer is a simple one: TRADING IS ZERO SUM. For every contract you buy, someone sells one, and for every contract you sell, someone buys one. No money is "MADE" its only transferred. Of course, I dont quite know how to GIVE people money yet, and dont plan to learn it quickly, either...

ChrisM: Check out the thread: "The perfect option position " in this forum, we discussed a position like that there .. Tiki

MOO kept tanking so today I made some trades: Sold 400MOO @ 6.37 (my position is now -200) Closed Apr04 8.00 calls MOO for 0.40 Position is now: Short 200MOO Short Apr04 8.00 puts with MOO @ 6.30 Tiki

Heh this was a cool thread.. i am going to try this puppy out in a month or so, and see what happens. *shit* my cookie fell into a big ole glass of Jack .. ah well im gonna have to drink that one , too , then :) Tiki

Indeed great tread :) how about this boy: Pregnant butterfly in Nov: +2 call/put @ 90 -4 call/put @ 100 +2 call/put @110 (or a condor: +2call /put@90 -2 call/put @95 -2call/put @105 +2call/put @110) Ratio'd spread in Apr: +2 put @ 95 -1 put @ 100 -1 call @ 100 +2...

No, they are usually excercized when the price of the stock is higher then [price of the call] + [strike price] say stock is at 16, and there is a call15 out there priced 2.50 people would be crazy to spend 2.50 to buy something at 15 thats priced 16 comprehende? most of the time...

Stock is called away when the other side of your contracts decides to excersize them. This strategy of yours will only work if you leg into your position (or if you get a sneaky arb going) for buying stock and selling call EQUALS selling a put (so your position would be; ill sell a put and buy a...

make a crazy butterfly :P s 3 nearmonth 100 l 1 nearmonth 95 l 1 nearmonth 105 and combine it with: l 2 longmonth calls 100 l 2 longmonth puts 100 ? Tiki

What is a wrangle? Tiki

Err how do you benefit from a huge breakout? I'd say that when stock rams from 30 to 50, it has also rammed apart your ass (literally: your wallet.) Or did you mistype somewhere and are you supposed to go long on one of the 3? Tiki

We get to test it and reap money (that is, if we win! ;)) Tiki

a couple (say, 10) short nearmonth straddles/strangles combined with MORE (say, 20) long farmonth straddles/strangles. Might be a good one ? Tiki

=========================================== On the MOO trade: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (this I did 17-10.) Long 200MOO @ 7,37 Short 2 C Apr 2004 8,00 @ 1,20 Short 2 P Apr 2004 8,00 @ 1,80 stops: Short 400MOO when it plummets...