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sorry if question is redundent but I assume you are putting equal $ amts vs. equal shares? Thanks donna...BTW very interesting thx

Hi coolweb...I like your NVT selection...took a few moments to check it out, while a bit pricy (high price to book/sales) analyst like it and seems to be in a relatively stable channel since Oct. While you are certainly right that all cars and other's will have it...probably not in the next 15...

21st Century has been recomended before....personally I don't know. You will find $100 for a book not terribly expensive. I would echo hopback's recommendation on Laurence McMillian "Options as a Strategic Investment" I bought it at a discount at either half.com or Amazon. In addition I...

Update on Current Calendars: WFMI..booked an $800 loss on the extra 10 contracts written last week...original Calendar however is currently profitable: Have a Mar/April shortMar65/longApr70 put diagnal with the original debt now whittled down to -2.75 a contract. Current value of spread...

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Rather than single out individuals...I have benefited most from the Journals...the people who have taken the time both to post and discuss the methods being used the "whys" and "wherefors" the individuals who have set up the Journals and either real time or same day updates so you can follow the...

Thanks...since I do follow your charts...its nice to know where your "head" is...makes sense

One more thing I've been thinking about in "Donna's World"....I am personally troubled and I think the Market may be as well (especially going into the weekend) over the religious strife in Iraq. If indeed they break out in a Civil war then where is the US roll in THAT conflict? If the bombers...

Really nice charts..again thanks for sharing...however if you go farther back in time could you not find another channel...just courious because its been 6 trading days outside the channel...so at what point is the channel invalidated?

I'm actually not feeling too bad about it...I believe my rational (for buying it back) was right...I never worry about losing money if I'm taking winnings...but when I close a losing play and it immediately changes course...ugh!:(

No...your doing fine...thats right, I'd forgotten about VEGA!

:p it didn't...we need a support group for antsy traders who need to sit on their hands.....Cache don't trade just because your bored! If I had held back ONE more day on my buying back a put I'd have saved $800 bucks:eek:

Hi Chris...makes me feel better that you are in cash...I've been feeling very Skitzo (sp!) abt the mkt. On one had feeling that spx at least will get higher but on the other hand not excited at all abt stocks. Other than some stocks that I'm long in and a few Calendar put spreads that I'm...

by buying Mar selling back months tho arn't you really buying the much higher vols. So if vols go down after reporting you would lose out wouldn't you?

Thx...I'll add it to the paper trade on MRVL I have going on combo/fly conversion along with Coach

Personally I think there are better ways to play neutrality...such as IC's....but neutral spreads seem to work better on the indicies because of event/gap risk in stocks.....so my tendency will be to do directional strategies on individual stocks and neutral strategies on the index such as spx.

That is a great question....I'm trying to figure out. From what I've been reading a calendar can be neutral or directional. I wanted to use calendar's on stocks I'm negative on because I'm not really comfortable yet doing straight puts or put spreads. A calender can be sm loss if you are...

Filled on BTC 10 Mar 65puts at 3.5...so am taking an $800 loss...will continue with the rest of the cal/diag

It makes sense today to buy back 10 of my short 65's as I don't want the significant risk attached to naked puts...but will leave the rest of the calendar (now diagonal) to play out.