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To Don and diaooptions Your comments are well taken. I dont find the straddle a bad performer at all. It is rather slow and doesn´t earn any more than a debit or credit spread. I have not experienced with my experimenting anything like losing money with a straddle. It is a very...

STRADDLE TRADING REVIEW after two years. I still like STRADDLES. You can get two trades a month out of STRADDLES earning a net profit of 3% each time, with little or no risk. I did some experimenting and haven´t finished with this yet. To get more OMMPH! out of a STRADDLE as far as...

Fortunately I don´t get the humor. I´m just the way I am. I think in a certain way. I sort of like to analyze things to death. Comes of living in a different environment than you guys. Sorry if that offends, some of you that think in a different way. While I remember, thanks also to...

Thankyou for the nice comments friend Don Bright In a rather subjective review over two years. The straight option buyers did better than the option sellers. Admittedly, we didn´t get any kind of measuring returns from most sellers. The straight option buyers and these were small...

Ha! Ha! guys. Guess that didn´t come out the right way? :) Actually I was summing up my two year foray and trying to isolate the ideas and methods that worked. Sorry if I offended you. I´m getting quite a bit of private emails from newbies that are more positive. It is hard to...

Well I´m mulling over my choices. First off, I´m cleaning this beach apartment, doing some carpentry repairs and getting ready to leave after 4 months here for my health. Going back home. I´m waiting for some feedback, from a new friend and it looks like I may have my new strategy...

The only person I know consistantly increasing his equity balance on these forums seems to be Ryan Patrick. Unfortunately I don´t have the knowledge, or the emotional characteristics to trade his style of earnings gambling. But I sure admire that guy. Also for posting his equity balance...

Thanks for the inpùt Don. :D In another week I will be approaching my two years of trading options. One year was paper trading, the second year was trading with CASH. I´ve been mulling over whether I want to go into a third year and if so, what approach to take. My account was...

AAA in the beltway. Thanks for the correction. Making me think indeed. I have lost tremendous in Black Swan credit spreads. I´m not sure of the difference in the sense of trading as one method? In credit spreads, given no big market deviations, you can double your money in five months...

Piker for life Thankyou for that hint on OTM Verticals. For lower spreads. Worth it´s weight in gold that information. Will check it out shortly on this Sunday. re: the TOS analysis stuff. That is for desktop. I´m using web based. Due to being in a foreign country with uncertain...

Ooh! Before I sign off. One last question for WhistlingLeaf. I don´t want to intrude, or be nosy about your private business, but it would go a long way toward forming some sort of impression of your trading system, if you would care to share, your account equity growth, or losses over...

Out of curiousity this Sunday morning. I calculated the QQQ has dropped -11% from the high. Trying to figure what it will do for next week.

Well I do appreciate the educational stuff from Whistling Leaf and the more expert stuff from Atticus and some others. I´m getting educated, it is a rather slow process. I´m going to have to go to 1 contract again, this coming week, having lost all my cushion of profit. I´m down to $7058...

Man this is great. I´m reading through this thread, and I actually understood a good portion of what was being said. Progress is being made in knowledge by this novice. But not in my equity sadly. I win it and still lose it.

Since Atticus says it makes no difference if you are OTM, or itm OR atm. I was just wondering. I did do some OTM trades a week ago ( and lost ) but they don´t move as rapidly in price as ITM options. So if you put the BOX on two opposing Verticals and made sure they were at least 2 nd...

Whistling leaf I found that interesting about 50 + more long term positions in Vertical spreads. Care to be a bit more specific on the technical details for us novices who have not tried that yet? I mostly trade the QQQ as I´m a beginner. But in a month, the QQQ will swing up and...

A technical question. If are trading weeklies and trying to project where your trading vehicle will be in one week. I have had no problem while trading while the market was going sideways. But now we are in a BEAR TREND, I find it exceedingly difficult to project 7 days into the future...

With all the recent hurrah on here with clashing egos. I might as well as chime in and praise Don Bright for helping me understand Delta Neutral trading. I found it rather complicated the way you figure it out. I guess it isn´t, but it was too me. But I am forever grateful to Don Bright for...

Lets talk TECHNICAL skills for novices like me. If the pro´s would chime in? Reading about butterflies. The interesting thing is they describe the butterfly trade, but in some commentary, they say you cannot lose, because you are able to sell off pieces of the butterfly and morph the...

I was all set to trade a HORIZONTAL CALENDAR and a CONDOR tomorrow. Got myself all psyched up about it, and wondering if I would get the order blank filled in properly in TOS. Having made a mess of it the last two beginning times I did so. Anyway I was all set to do so. But this strong...