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Well I do have kids and they're out of school for the summer. The fact is that the wife and kids have a very early schedule. They're out of the house by 7 am EST and they begin coming home after 12 noon EST. Distractions galore.

What does that have to do with Market Profile?

You gonna need to keep a lot of money in the account for margin ... especially is you sell naked options.

Separate trading office I'll state it here … I enjoy trading from an office rather than home. I do admit that I do have a trading setup at home in a spare bedroom so that I can peruse the internet or charts etc. at nights or on weekends. Also there are times when I can and do trade...

Cease trading for the day should the daily loss equal or exceed 2% of equity. Cease trading for the week should the weekly loss equal or exceed 3% of equity. Cease trading for the month should the monthly loss equal or exceed 4% of equity. Just an idea !

When you trade with a directional bias ( long or short ), you can always hedge the position buy also buying options. But when you put on a spread how do you hedge it. How do you protect yourself against an adverse move in the SN3/SX3 spread ?

Why did you sell calls as opposed to buying puts.

I thought Realtick had upgraded their servers for institutional use ... yeah right !

I can see MM's buying premium ... after the've sold premium during the run-up.

In general i'd agree that you buy options when premiums are low; but, remember that options are very sensitive to time also. The rate of decay of premium of an option accelerates going into the last 10 trading days. Especially if it's an out of the money option.

I own ... spyders (unmargined) in my IRA.

Hyperfeed use to rule back in the days of the internet bubble. Now, I don't know anyone who uses it.

Okay finally got a fill back ... I sold an sp1010 call at 9.5. I couldn't get ten. I chose the 1010 strike price because its just above today's highs; which may be the highs for some time. Let's see. I wish I had sold a call during the morning run-up. Those same call blew up to 13...

Since the option expiration is just around the corner, I like the idea of receiving premium from selling calls rather than buying insurance in the form of puts. I have 90 minutes to decide which calls I will sell.

garbo man, you're hilarious.

I know two weeks to go to cash in on call premium. Should I go ITM, ATM, or OTM?

I'm testing ideas on how to trade from the short side though ... Thanks for the fib stuff.

Sounds like hocus pocus ... Still, I don't see any reason to get out of a very profitable long position. After all, the market is still up.

retest of highs ? Yes, I think so.

Same here ... Esignal is faster but only by 1 sec.