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I want to say this was the most beneficial thread to me since I've been on ET. A decline in my fathers health set me off on some crazy binge eating where I gained a considerable amount of weight in a brief period of time. Something about this thread hit me like a punch in the face and set me...

Always having an exit strategy before you enter. Have the whole trade thought out. For better or for worse.

You've developed a certain level of risk management skills to make certain that is the case and have rules in place that you adhere to to make certain that remains the case. The OP is just guessing and doesn't appear to even be thinking about risk management.

Why would your intuitions ever be Superior to the collective wisdom that makes up the market? Furthermore, betting reports sounds like a damn coin flip to me, even if all you did was trade that one market and knew it inside and out.

Being the individual who said to you the markets are not roulette. That read like someone guessing red or black

That's an understatement. It's amazing how many times I use my Walken impression. And this... this is just the icing on the cake.

I perfectly understand what you are implying, but I have no idea what you are saying. No need to speak in the abstract, if this occurred, put the numbers to it, otherwise everything you wrote is just noise.

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead: You own the team and you are JUST going to stare...I'd violate that thing six ways from Sunday.

My love of wings and teenies doesn't just mean 'close your eyes and blindly buy them.' Options are not necessarily a do one thing and do it over and over again regardless of level. To everything there is a season. A time to be born, a time to die A time to plant, a time to reap A time to kill...

The hero of our story, and proud to say, my best friend.

That's sad, he needs to switch schools. In the mean time tell him to go read some Bayes, Ramsey and Laplace. If he desn't know what to do after that, there's always the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for him to solve. Bet that keeps him busy for a few days... or centuries.

Yeah, laugh all you want. You obviously never woke up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat, from being chased in your dream by 'the negative gamma monster,' which looked like gossamer from bugs bunny, except with sharp pointy teeth shaped like deltas. -true story!

That guy is such an extreme perma-bear. I doubt he has more than a few bhat left by now.

Obviously. I was asking more along the lines of - if you show them the hole, they close it, they win automatically by having that hole closed. Obviously their gain is now your loss. You don't show anyone the hole. You exploit it indefinitely, they continue to suffer. Self-sacrifice for the...

Let me moderately rephrase your question. What if you found something, I won't go so far as to say the 'holy grail,' but something you are sure you could monetize effectively, but you know that 'something' would be more beneficial to present to the rest of the world to advance their...

I vehemently disagree. I'd provide my opinion but will instead defer to the guy who said the following in response to themickey's following comment: "Trading is the game where only the few can achieve, it will always be this way." "Agreed. It's an arduous task. I think "only the few" have the...

Capturing gamma has absolutely nothing to do with OTM to ITM. It is capturing ANY movement. Absolutely not a lotto ticket. Gamma is your friend, unless you are short it, then it's pure evil.

Hopefully it's ready in 6 months. I'll make sure to send you a copy. I promise you'll find it interesting.

Assume you never touched the option, and had bought the underlying when it was trading 700 and it is 960 today. You'd may have gotten long @ 700 but it would be correct to say you are presently long at 960. Same with the 950C. Assume you bought it. Exercising it is identical to buying the UL...

Meh... my point is that a lot of what you attribute to the Fed is just the free market, and the Fed takes credit for what it is not doing, and cannot do. I'll explain in detail, eventually. and as an FYI... I despise gold. Not a fan of purple either. ;)