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i was thinking .. in every entrepreneurial venture i've taken.. i had to be able to fix my own tools, my own truck , know a little to alot about everything.. or at every turn i was paying the mechanic or some other person money i didn't have to fix things while i sat their and waited... i think...

economic war... Greece leverages up and plays the same hand in cards the big banks played against us in the US ... to big to fail... its the perfect option for a big player.. milk the system .. put the people in harms way where they have to bail you out. Good ole George Soros in his new...

i love all the above comments you made... fakes and shark pools.. i love that! haha They are all gaming you and overtime your curve fitted system gets arbitraged and you get blasted.. especially with large sums of money being traded.. so eloquently put...

is anyone trading options on Currency?? i wanna dip my feet in and get wet.. but i have no experience.. and as i'm sure you guys all know.. i'd like to skip the heavy costs of paying for them with alot of losses to find out... haha Anyone .. Anyone?

After losing on my earnings butterfly for not leaving myself enough time to be right.. i immediately put on another butterfly for next week.. and its working good for me.. i knew the dang thing would gravitate back up.. just not within moments after earnings.. or at least i realized that in...

damn i'm jealous! haha

bottom line is i probably need to mess with it more.. i've never got it to work for me well.. all the necessary ratios to be a good strategy i could not get up to commonly acceptable levels...

umm that sounds scary bro

you know i never looked into scalping.. do you sit there with the market depth window open popping away at hot keys to buy and sell literally all day?

like your name wide tailz... probability distrobuter haha

that being said.. i'm a firm believer in the ideas of Taleb.. and i liked Espen Haug as well.. i've read his book.. and he actually emailed back and forth with me.. this combination of behavorial psych, arbing unexpected events, and bleeding slow to make big sums, is what i'm after.. its...

you know a very good point you make... as probability distros go further out in time they exponentially become more worthless.. Nassim Taleb was a big pusher of that in his books.. I TOTALLY AGREE.. risk to reward ratios are something i follow heavy.. and trading volatility is exactly what...

any system developed to automatically trade doesn't have intutition?. but the development of that system had the intuition of the trader developing it no? you don't come up with this marks on the chart just from darts on a dartbooard? no i don't think so i just like discretionary...

i'd love to hear how some of you guys exploit the vol term structure.. square root of time... so thats like a time adjusted vol skew? meaning that if adjusted for time the volatility smile is actually flatter... would that imply that options that are out of the money at expiration have...

what do you mean??? i'm buying similar vol exposure to a ATM straddle..?

sorry guys if i was unclear.. i put a butterfly with a positive bias on netflix.. and a ratio backspread on for earnings.. i lost on both.. the 65 /65 ratio i closed out at 4.10 debit.. i put the ratio on at a credit of .06 cents.. the butterfly i put on was totally a different trade...

nothing beats a great sense of intution.. NOTHING marks on last weeks chart mean something different then this weeks chart so on and so on..

Does the volatility shape frequently to expire??? Make sense of that

I bought a butterfly not a straddle.. and one ratio .. sorry man no comprende tu.. what do you mean

just to let you guys know.. i had a weekly ratio backspread i just bought back at 4.10 i put it on at a credit of .20 thats really clost to a max loss for a ratio... first time ever.. not that i've put tons of them on.. but i said in this thread eariler its highly unlikely to realize the...