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this thing is still down on pretty big vol. I wonder what's going on over there.....

what do you mean?

I'm staying light until banks report in 2 weeks. maybe we see some vol after that. Might be the calm before the storm. (or rally if i'm wrong)

trash last post. didn't realize you were looking for atr. sry

I kind of agree but no way i'm going long till banks report earnings. I don't mind missing some of the ride to avoid that stress. Do you really want to have a bunch of long positions on 4/17, when Citigroup announces Q1 earnings before the 4/18 bell?

I concentrate on the vix more than anything. there is definitely no direct correlation between the vix and any one stock. Heck it went against the entire index the last few days. you may be more interested in your stocks option pricing vs. the vix. Or as mentioned overlay vix with stock you...

I get the feeling not too many people trade the vix like i do but i found this on the vix and more blog (great site btw). A great writeup about this weeks strange vix action.... As I mentioned yesterday in VIX Follows Markets Down in Early Trading, it is rare for the VIX to drop when the S&P...

Anyone paying attention to the VIX lately? The market keeps going lower this week and the vix hasn't really changed much. It has actually lowered the past 2 days. I've seen it go against the market plenty of times but not on a move this large. I guess it means plenty of people have already...

What if the 3 bedroom is on Park Ave in NYC and the house on the hill is in Niue (county with lowest GDP)?

Anyone catch this interview? If she's right (which she has been lately) we're in for a bad couple months. Basically she downgraded estimates on financals and increased expected write downs. ...dividend cuts, everything... guess we'll see.

Your last post was fine. Anyway my straddle gained about $200 today and I just closed it out. It was on 25 contracts. I'm a little upset I covered with the put yesterday. I was spooked and i closed out the whole position because it's not the way i ever trade so i didn't really know what to...

hedgefundtrader: Thanks for explaining an iron condor to me. lol. Maybe you can figure out a slight difference between scalping .10 cents in an hour and selling iron condors and waiting for time premium to pay. I never said the market is going to retest lows this week. I said i want to...

one other thing.... the only reason i bought 27.5 calls today instead of 25's is because the 27.5's had less bidders and i got in at a better price than i could have got the 25's. You should watch ATM vix option pricing throughout the day sometime. It's not that difficult to scalp .10 cents...

After I posted I realized it must have been confusing to understand. When I meant I was going short, i meant short the market (which to me is long vix calls) Yesterday i bought 25c at around 1:30 and closed them out for a modest profit around 2:30. Today I opened a 27.5calls trade after the...

again pretty bad shorting signs. I shorted ahead of consumer confidence. what good that did me. lol. i think we might rally to the close. i opened a long position (now i'm in a vix straddle) If i profit on the long side i may put to short tomorrow. we'll see. good luck dennis

vix. look at the change in ATM options on any given day.

i would just hold what you have. You still have 2500 shares that you haven't capped the profit on by writing calls. like you said I doub't you're going below 3 at this point. It would have been nice to unload after today's news but you're not really in bad shape. worst case would be getting...

12800 was my original short entry too but 500 or so up points made me step in a little sooner. I just want to scalp a little retrace. I'm actually in the money already. The at the money vix options have insane swings. I'm not too worried that we wont see the 27 or above level before april...

i just went short too. (well long Vix calls technically). Dow doesn't seem to want to break out much above 12600. Been hovering there for a couple hours now. Now that i'm short I'm sure it will surge over. lol.

CNBC keeps saying luxury retailers are the last to bottom/first to rebound. Tiffany's beats earnings and they want us to believe all wall st's troubles are over. Don't worry about the trillions in mortgage/credit mess, Tiffany's beat the street!!!!