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after you cleaned up your chair...right?...:D

don't feel bad we all learn the hard way... now... i have 2 ups and 2 workstations...one pukes the other carries the load... that's why i guess redundant does not rhyme with dumb...

1 short hpq +40.00 covered quick -.8 / +.7 % meant to block ...got lucky...:eek:

3 fills / 3 shorts -145.00 -1 / +.5 % broke rules lost money.... cut short a winner and watched a small winner turn into a loser... damn...:mad:

4 fills / 4 longs +910.00 -.7 / +.8 % happy monday...finally btw this strategy dosn't work so don't try this at home kids....:)

they seem to strike at night... no rest for the wicked...

complete mental screwup this morning... 10 fills / 1 short / 9 long -87.00... -.75 / +.75 % should have been ..... 5 fills / 3 short / 2 long $???.?? - 1.0 / + .5 % forgot to change skew on entry software... system says correct percentages would have made money... to...

4 fills / 1000 shares each 3 short / 1 long +65.00 short = loser .... not blocking nearly as much -.8 / +.7 %

3 fills / 2 short / 1 long +126.00 -.4 / +1.1% coulda been better...

bash don on some other forum.... i actually learned alot here... quit clogging my mail box... you guys are worse than chicks... by the way i don't see any of the whiners posting strategies of any kind..

4 fills all short -220.00 -.45 / +1.05 % tried to wait it out... cost about 120.00 to wait.... stopped out on all 4 orders

the "intuition" as i call it is an adjunct to the math... as i look at an earnings straddle or whatever the play may be i take past history of my experiences and try to guess-timate the value of the play in respect to the current values being bid or offered... it does not fit a historical...

the knowledge that you got.... that the others don't.... options are mostly math and part intuition...would you not agree... just fishing for the "experts"... have a good weekend..

i bought the straddle... a push would have been if the straddle and strangle were priced at the strike interval of 2.50. straddle = 3.5 strangle = 1.5 difference 2.00...the straddle is the better expectancy.... break evens are better on the straddle because of this... i thought...

an actual trade.... ebay earnings....tonight aug 35 straddle trading 3.50 aug 32.5 put / 37.5 call trading 1.50 which one did i do....and why i will answer in a minute or too underlying trading 34.78

one of the great thing about options is that you only have to be sort of right to make money.... you can be bullish...bearish ...or you can pick a range where the underlying will go... you can even say that nothing will happen and watch premium decay.... however when you are wrong make...

3 fills / 1000 shares each 2 long / 1 short +350.00 -.95 / +.55 % ran stops a little too tight today... gotta learn some more patience....

the fact that you bought "overpriced puts" is what i would call a discretionary edge over the pure options greek trader... one can put anticipated volatility " stock is going to hell "in your value and it looks cheap to you...basically you are replacing shorting the stock by buying the put...

agreed!!! when all else fails look up from your screen and see what is happening

boys... it sounds like you were up way to late drinking way too much... anseld does sound a tad bitter.... he makes some valid points..but then so does my wife when she is ripping into me... i will watch this tread today and if anyone gets bitchy ...well...i guess i'll have to push...