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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Maybe time for some more postings of JA??
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Nice head & shoulders on the OEX...
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    Socialized National Health Care DOESN'T WORK!*

    ..blah, blah, blah,... page after page... think anyone actually reads any of this?
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Wanted to point out that ET's Chit Chat forum is highly entertaining if you haven't checked it out yet.... it's kinda like the Jerry Springer show where you laugh AT the people on stage. Chit Chat forum really demonstrates the penetration of AOL dial-up into trailer park communities all...
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    I still don't understand...

    Notwithstanding the occasional CEO gone astray, they're the movers and shakers who define their respective industries... while you're putzing around on a message board, dreaming of making your $50k lunch money into $50M. That's the difference.
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    Does America need Unions any more?

    Are Unions necessary in America today? Do they protect Labor or do they make this nation uncompetitive?
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    Socialized National Health Care DOESN'T WORK!*

    Your trailer park has an Internet connection?
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    Greatest Movie Lines of All Time

    "Wash this!" -- Dom Deloise in Blazing Saddles.
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Ahhh, yes, the good 'ole random word generator.....
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    The weekly chart will give you some great clues about where the market is likely to go based on cycle analysis....
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    You can use VIX (the bottom chart) as an intermediate term market direction indicator. It works very well. And it indicates sideways markets too. The bottom chart is basically two MAs of VIX. Have fun!
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    George Soros is buying put spreads. I think he has a small account at TOS. http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/international/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Broke through pivot at 1260. Next support is 1245.
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    It's a lot worse than "some protesters throwing rocks at a Danish embassy in Afghanistan". Join the dots. First the muslim riots in France. Then Hammas the murderers elected to office. Then Danish embassies burning in multiple countries. And now Iran. These cartoon-hating home-boys are...
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Half the world's gone bananas over some cartoons.. but the market's acting like nothing is going on. Where is this complacency coming from? Anyone looking at some debit put spreads to catch the move down?
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Donna, what I do is not all that different from what coach is doing. Differences are: 1) I put the hedge on the same time as the main spread. I see this as a tax to play the game. 2) I calculate the type and size of the hedge based on what I am willing to lose when SPX/volatility goes...
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    Never pay the stated commission schedule, negotiate....
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    And they also say don't risk more than 2.5% of your trading capital on any one position.... so it's a completely different type of trading than followed on this board.
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    That's what Americans said about Japanese cars 35 years ago......... and look where the US auto industry is today.
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    SPX Credit Spread Trader

    TOS' software developers are all in St. Petersberg, Russia... and their chief software guy is Chinese. Welcome to the global economy. You're still thinking in terms of "borders and cultures" from the last century... watch out, you might get replaced soon by someone twice as smart, working twice...
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