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Hey Rallymode.... I'm still puttng on OTM spreads but am also looking at better R/R CTM spreads. If we break SPX 1362 I'll put on a CTM call spread.

Seriously, Heatheranderson, if you can't simply spend 30 seconds googling "ES options quotes" and going to one of the 20+ sites which show these quotes for free.... then set aside options for a while and instead, read a few dozen books on Initiative. Yeeeeesh!!!!!!!!!

Seems like you're jumping around a lot -- strategy du jour. No offense, but have you perfected any one strategy yet?

And how would you know that?

WoW! I'm looking for exactly the opposite... I must have stumbled into the Bizarro world.

Can you comment on the course? Anything substantially different from what we're doing here? Is it worth the $4000?

No... that's Terry Allen

Since we're discussing options courses, has anyone taken Terry Haupt's course?

My philiosophy in general on all of this is to let others much smarter I do all the hard work (such as figuring out COT, bull/bear Rydex ratios, etc.) and I just take that information, form an opinion, add to it my two-bit mickey mouse TA and make a decision. Seems to work most of the time.....

Why would you go long on such an overextended market? - The latest Commitment of Traders is $34B short (an extreme level) - The SPX is hovering far above it's 20-day EMA (typically an entry point for dip buyers) - The NAZ just closed under the 1730 level (showing it was a false...

VIX went up today despite the rally....

Bizarre. I think a couple of other futures spiked up too. Anyone know why?

rdemyan, my 2 cents in response to your three points in reverse order since that's how I see their importance: 3) I'm certain that your performance will improve dramatically once you grasp technical analysis. It's been posted here that to make these trades work, you have to be right on...

Great environent for buying calls.....

Election year antics? Bizarre......

Coach, An observation: I seem to get filled much faster on trades that, over the course of the next 2 to 4 weeks after my fill, turn out to be directionally wrong. Conversely, it takes longer to get filled on trades which turn out to be directionally correct in the weeks to follow. It's...

riskarb, do you have a link to the German guy's fund?

Well done TOS. My ballpark calculations on the founders' net gain: If Technology Crossover took a 40% stake for $22.5M, that left 60% -- let's say 35% for employees/management and 25% for 2 founders -- 12.5% each. Assume TCV had participating preferred shares with 1x liquidation...

Cache, Riskarb, Why so bearish?

Coach (and everyone else), 1) How much below the mid are you having to go these days? I'm not getting filled until $0.15 at least... 2) Do you calculate the fair value of a credit spread before you put it on? For example for AUG 1130/1140 bull put spread with a mid at xx cents, do bother...