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    Selling puts on SVXY

    One thing that you have to keep in mind is that SVXY is the inverse of VXX, which is meant to replicate the performance of the VIX futures, not VIX itself. The difference is significant, as you can see by examining these charts: VIX VIX futures VXX
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    Green Monday (BTFD)

    What's FI? While we're at it, what's D/V?
  3. J

    Selling puts on SVXY

    Delta/volatility, delta/vega?
  4. J

    Selling puts on SVXY

    Limited, but enough to blow your legs off.
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    ES Journal - 2013

    ES hourly. There should be a breakout from this consolidation area in the next few days. My bias is that it will be to the downside. I'm long SPY June 165 puts from yesterday.
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    2013 medical marijuana stock thread

    Ex-Microsoft manager plans to create first U.S. marijuana brand Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft corporate strategy manager, plans to create the first U.S. national marijuana brand. Shively sees his plan to buy medical cannabis dispensaries in three states creating a leader in...
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    Getting over the fear of placing trades and FOLLOWING THROUGH

    Perhaps learning to detach yourself from the value of money would work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XruhYQW6unA I'm not saying do this, I'm just saying that it does work for some traders.
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    ES Journal - 2013

    SPY 30 min chart. Possible inflection point here, either to the upside or downside.
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    Surfer Alerts

    I agree. Continuously flogging a dead horse or posting off-topic on someone else's journal is in bad form. This argument should have ended long ago. If cornix really wants to argue about possible returns or whatever, he should start a thread for that.
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    RM's occasional market calls...

    Exited at .40/share, for a loss of $280. No big deal.
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    RM's occasional market calls...

    I just looked at the chart and it looks good to me. I'm putting on a small position. I'm long 20 Jun 8.00 puts.
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    Surfer Alerts

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_(finance)
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    Surfer Alerts

    If I'm long stock or calls on that stock, I could hedge my position with puts and my potential profit would only be reduced by the cost of the puts. The maximum potential profit would still be unlimited. "Locking in price" is a different sort of hedging, the sort done by say airlines when they...
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    Atlas Capital Markets?? what is that?

    Here's their website: http://atlascapitalmarkets.com/ Apparently it's been under maintenance since at least April 2nd. Does that inspire you with confidence in them?
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    Surfer Alerts

    Maybe you should ask Steve Tvardek. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=258516
  16. J

    Individual exchange members in Chicago : what structure?

    If what you were referring to with respect to NoDoji was this: then you really, really, really don't understand sarcasm.
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    ES Journal - 2013

    UVOL - DVOL.
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    The no BS, obfuscation-free price action thread

    There are a number of people on this forum who claim to trade profitably by price action alone. For instance, NoDoji says she is consistently profitable by repeatedly trading price action setups that she has back tested and found to provide a positive expectancy. Do you think that if these...
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    ES Journal - 2013

    There's a delete option available within the first 30 minutes of making a post. See the Edit/Delete link in the bottom right of each post?
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    The no BS, obfuscation-free price action thread

    Sorry, I didn't realize the x-axis got cut off. It was a five minute chart, for those who don't know.
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