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I remember someone posted it on this site. It was long volatility, but so mitigate the decay over time it would be long equities or equity futures? Does anyone know about this? Thanks.

I worry about this. But if one only puts a very small part of their account in VIX short products until there is a spike in the VIX, can't one essentially completely mitigate this risk? Like you would only be 100% invested if VIX went to 160. It will probably never go that high, but play it...

I don't suppose anyone has tracked mu200411 performance based on what he said on this thread and has results? Its a looooong thread, so maybe, against all odds, they are good!

ajacobson, thanks a ton. Much appreciated. Let's say one had an account with $2.7 million in assets, $2 million cash and $400k in stocks and $300k in futures, some long some short. How many accounts would you say one should break these amounts into to be totally covered? This coverage seems...

Wholly crap: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=111 Coverage up to $30 million, but only up to $1,000,000 in cash? Crap, most of my money is currently in cash. And futures are not covered at all apparently. Dang, I'm going to have to split up my account into more small ones...

I started worrying about this. If IB somehow goes under, or they abscond with my account balance, for how much am I protected? I got a couple big ones in one account, if you know what I mean. Thanks.

volpri, can you point me towards the proper sources? Thanks.

Thanks Bobby. Sorry for the rookie question, but what is DTE? What criteria do you use to determine on what you sell options? Thanks!

Is vincent really bragging about trades that barely earned him enough to buy a Happy Meal?

When do you buy back Sweet Bobby? Are you using some claer cut formula or metric or really just trading these things on your experience? Thanks.

He has the expertise not to get into a bubble at any time, top or otherwise.

Hahaha, maybe a SLIGHT concern. :)

All looks green. Where is that guy eating the sandwich Rickshaw Man keeps harping on? Oh, wait, he's porking Overnight's mom!!!!

Really? Just ask your mom. She will just dream lolol.

Visiara, glad you are going long! Makes me feel a lot better!

What are you guys talking about the close and the market "turning off"? I'm looking on yahoo finance and nothing much at all happened at close. My accounts don't seem to be down, but instead up a bit after close. I'm getting worried though. A guy at work that doesn't often given predictions...

Oh geez. When the most serious response in the thread comes from lawrence-lugar I know its doomed. :) Bump for any thoughts!

I think most of us believe, given how long this bull market has been going, that a potentially huge pullback, and maybe a bear market, is probably not that far around the corner. Now, I know that most of you that trade daily are generally in and out of positions relatively quickly, so would not...

Thanks Kim. Understood loud and clear. I'm just getting at, how are those loss percentages (and heck, the gains) calculated in those histories you linked, that showed percentage losses in the aggregate far exceeding percentage gains, even if there were a lot more gains overall. In my example...

Thanks tomorton! So, one might come up with a trading system something like, if all 4 are above, go long, if all 4 are below, go short, if they are mixed stay flat? Curious - did you come up with these by backtesting, or by just trial and error, or are these some popular moving averages to...