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For the fun of it. I decided to do a paper trade on your two choices. FOSL 115 CAll @ $3.40 RAX 50 PUT @ 3.30 See what we get today and tomorrow? I have to hold overnight, can´t close the same day.

Ryan Out of curiousity I looked up FOSL and RAX daily charts. I have FOSL going UP. I have RAX going down. Now this is purely from a technical chart reading, standpoint. I don´t know anything about earnings pops.

I´m just coming online. I was just reading about the strangle vs the straddle. I´m familiar with the long straddle. Which returns usually 3% and gives you a win 2 times out of the 3 directions that can happen. The third would or should, at least break even or close to it. Your system...

I´m ahead right now at 11.20 a.m. here. But closing down the computer. I´m going for a swim. The breeze is light, the water green, blue and warm. Just took an hours nap. Not sure whether I´m going to sell out today, or tomorrow or the next day. As a matter of fact, I did get in...

Sorry I dont understand Greek, or Chinese! Or Mayan hyroglyphs. Or sumerian writing.

Well Ryan has certainly amused me and going from $2700 to $7500 in 3 months or less, says something for his system. I had jumped into his thread part way through and since it is the wee hours of the morning here, thought I would go look how his thread started. I loved it. Entertainment at...

Luv u too! :p

Goal Getter I trade QQQ and the OEX. Which are indexes and I use free BIG CHARTS and free freestockcharts.com Big charts is delayed and freestockcharts gives assumed data, for that 15 min. delay required by the exchanges. At the level of buying trigger signals I use...

Okay Ryan I got into two orders on Friday. First one was a targeted buy, 2 QQQ 61 Calls @ $2.90 The second order an hour before the close, when my NEW selected SECRET MAGIC BUY INDICATOR completed and gave me a buy signal. This one for 3 QQQ 62 CALLS @ $2.33 I´m expecting this to...

Lovely day out my open front door. The secret magic buy signal is setting up. Almost completed. Think I have time to go barefoot in some shorts and walk a block or two in the shade of the coconut trees, in my barefeet, then when I get back, see if I have a buy signal yet? I´ll leave the...

Just came back from my swim in the warm waters over the white sand nearby. Ryan I think it was you asked? I have a web page someplace on the internet from some years back, about retiring in Belize and the costs. You get good enough at what you are doing, 35 is not too young to retire! ( grin...

Thats interesting about losing 50% and exiting. Mind you he is trading earnings pops or something in stocks. I hear Apple moves at least 10% a day? Haven´t looked at it yet. I´m more conservative and like indexes. More stodgy in their movements. I´m trying for one, maybe two trades...

Thats interesting thankyou for the contribution. I´m over on Ryan Patricks forum right now with a thread on direct buying and selling contracts. His thread is MY OPTION TRADING. I don´t trade straddles anymore. But since you made money in such a short time, it sort of sounds interesting...

Aaaaah! Montana? Got to be a teenager to live in Montana! Not an old 75 year old like me with one foot in the grave. We have a bit of cloud this morning and the sun is obscured. I´m sitting in my bathing suit, waiting for the sun to come out and then just a short block walk in bare...

Well in trading indexes which are a slower type of trading. I had last night did some homework on predicting the high and low, of next week´s bar. That number got hit this morning on the index, so I bought a token buy. The philosphy is to wait for 2 or 3 hours today and see if my ( GRIN )...

Well I´m in this a.m. 2 April QQQ 61 CALLS @ $2.90/ Got my pre-planned dip. But actually do not have a buy signal yet from my " SECRET MAGIC BUY TRADE INDICATOR" Maybe I will buy again if I get such a signal a little later this morning?

That is my modus operendi. When VIX is below 22, and below 19, I am setting profit targets in the QQQ moves of .30 cents. When it gets to VIX 22 and over, I expect .50 cents to a $1.25. In either case, soon as the volatility in a move stops climbing, I´m exiting. The other day it went...

Jeff That was interesting. I am more or less doing something similar but without a program. Just observation. With VIX low, in QQQ the ATR is too short. though I was just looking at it, about 50 ticks. So I do not enter unless it is after a correction. A minor one of course dealing in 5...

Waiting for a friend to visit and not likely to trade today. Tropical day here in the Caribbean. Anyway, one more question. If you leg out. You will sell your high side and be left with the sold side. Doesn´t that change the margin requirements on your account? Could leave you with...

Okay! Gotcha! Will probably try to paper trade that on indexes. I´m fairly good with calling moves once a week or so. While you are doing the earnings moves, I could simply play a move for volatility in a debit spread and hold longer than I usually do. Few more days. Might work? Though...