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  1. iceman1

    Spanish89- Opportunist Trades (2nd journal)

    Averaging down price... now that's a sign of a great trader. What if it hits 100+ first before having a key reversal. what possible basis is there for averaging the short unless there is some articulable reason. What is that reason?? Are you doing it on fundamentals???! lol why didn't you...
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    Spanish89- Opportunist Trades (2nd journal)

    why is that weird?!! because you didn't expect it or it doesn't comply with your dogmatic approach to being right all the time! It makes perfect sense to me.
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    Safer option strategies

    Why is your post so short. Next time write a novel simply to ask a few basic questions a lot of which can be answered by actually putting out some time and effort on your part to study and learn, and then asking about those concepts that you need some further input about!! But then why do that...
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    Trading on "Instynct" (NQ)

    Listen bro, if you were in Chicago I'd say let's get a drink and commisurate I exited a FOUR LOT of AAPL 405p (bought @2.86) and 395p yesterday (bought at 63 cents!) Today they went up at least 8500 - I took it off the screen because I was ready to put my head through the wall. LOL. Sure I...
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    For all who are currently short S&P or Dow, what is your target level??

    what price did you short them at i am showing 103/116 seems like a crappy r/r to make a few $
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    This Forum overtrades options

    i agree with some of his points... I have heard many times from many others - "why trade options and complicate things if you can be reasonably good with directional trading". I also see options as being appropriate for stocks like AAPL GOOG, AMZN etc. etc. so you do not have to commit as...
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    Trading on "Instynct" (NQ)

    Why on earth would you close at the point shown on your chart. What happened to patience? There were lower lows that continued fairly consistently for multiple bars to 2306-2310, when we saw a reversal pattern.Further as you noted the double top did not actually become a "double top" until the...
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    Trading on "Instynct" (NQ)

    If you admit to yourself that you truly don’t have the will to win at this game, don’t try to trade. It is too easy to lose too much money. Many people think that they’ll enjoy trading when they really don’t. It’s boring at times, lonely during the day, mentally trying, with little...
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    Trading on "Instynct" (NQ)

    5 trades and you lost 2.50 points!! I made 2 trades against the trend, just for fun in the last 15 minutes... and made +7 points. I don't even trade futures that often ( I trade options); but seems fairly easy to turn a profit. do you not know how to read a chart ?? Is your size too...
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    Market Outlook

    I typically use the 6.725 hour chart
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    I sold 32 deep OTM calls on SPY on tue

    2013?? yes
  12. iceman1

    Buying ITM Puts and Calls

    to OP bought AAPL Nov18 395c and sold for profit in one hour... may re-enter. Do you know why the ITM calls went higher albeit <30 to expiry??
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    Market Outlook

    now i understand! mea culpa lol
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    Market Outlook

    in all seriousness, bro... do you like sounding like a fool... or do you need the attention. Even a fricking broken clock is right. Markets go up and down - - - all the time. How does that get your rocks off by calling for an incessant downside in the face of the largest 4-5 week move...
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    does every gap opening get sold

    Mod: can you change title to "gap openings - exiting long options" and move to 'Options' forum Thanks!!
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    does every gap opening get sold

    Wondering if any position or swing trader (option trader) has some input on trading opening gaps. +AAPL Nov11 400c at 2.90 Gap opening. I figure it will sell-off, so take profits in first 2 minutes, leaving 2++ points on the table. One of my rules is: exit within 15% of what I believe...
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    Conquering trading anxiety

    Agree - well said A very good friend was a MM on CBOE; left cold Chicago, moved to AZ and kept trading ES, options etc. successfully. When I first started, I would be very relaxed (almost cavalier) and say or do some of the absurd things I now read on ET.com. I would go to sleep with so...
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    Conquering trading anxiety

    how can anyone you use the word "guarantee" with anything remotely having to do with trading? I guess like everything else, people want it all to be so easy; no effort, no stress, no anxiety, no sacrifices, no work. No wonder Europe and USA are in such bad shape. no wonder people blow up and...
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    Trading Long Straddles

    did you not notice... or were you not looking - last month the indexes had some of the largest moves higher in how many decades??!!! You gotta figure in these economic times it would be followed by choppy markets or even downside.
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    Considering moving into options

    The OP "wavel" put the following on another thread in March 2010 (see below). So, here we have a guy who 18 months later asks a total dufus uninformed options Q - yet he is pretentious enough or so misguided back in March 2010 as to think he can post anything meaningful about how to trade...
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