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OT a bit but I see a very favorable trade on Bear. July 10 straddle (sell) currently Bid 8.05 Ask 8.45 I sold 2 @ 8.20 Protection to 1.80 and 18.20. Yes this is coming from someone who already took almost a 20k hit on Bear.

The setup is just too good to pass up. I can take the heat on the trade and its a small position overall. That being said, I still have 2+ hours to hit some of my targets. Filled (obv) on 1313 short.

interesting...you don't link it. If you are going to make comments about other people's trading here maybe you should make some live trade posts as well. Good traders take good r:r setups no matter what the news is. I was both long and short yesterday. Lets get back to trading. Filled...

Pek, You've made some nice calls in the past, but they seem only that... calls. I can't remember the last time you actually put out a live trade (at least in this forum) Good trade MB.

VIX was up +4 at the open, now its only +0.4.

just an fyi that IB recently marked down Bear's stock to $2. I stepped away for an hour or two and just saw it when I got back.

no you weren't...no worries. It sucks, but that's part of trading. I had already done the math. I was actually short on the news of the two hedge funds going worthless. In hindsight (obviously) I covered way too early. I made a total (before this debacle) of approx $4600. Edit: Sorry...

Thanks for the math :) When I first saw the news I thought they must mean $20 or $22. Well I guess it could have been worse...I was going to build my position to 1200 shares if the stock got as low as $25. I'm sure employees have lost 100s if not millions. This is why you never have...

wonderful...i m up 2k in trading tonight... Only problem is I went long 600 shares of BSC at an average cost of $33 on Friday. My fundamental thesis was that their prime brokerage has value as well as their investment banking / ipo business. Also their CEO and Chairman both said that...

Filled full position.

i m with ya as well I was looking to get full position long at 1310 but i will buy half my position here at 1313.75. Edit (2:10 EST) First Target at 1319.75. I will move stop to BE on last contract if this fills.

This quote describes one of the rules that has helped my trading tremendously. On Friday, many times the market looked like it was putting in a bottom only to head lower. I kept telling myself don't get long until 1330 as that was where there was support from last weeks low. I waited almost...

Ok finally got my long. Edit (4:12) selling 1 here at first target 1336. have a good weekend everyone

I'm looking for a long at 1330 if we can get there (retest of last week's low) to hold for a few days next week, stop at 1324, target 1355.

jss, you shouldn't care where you make money...only that you make money

Didn't make a trade, got into my range but didnt see my trigger and also getting too close to end of RTH. Flat overnight.

Many times i put the trade in and then follow up with edits on why I made that trade. Now I'm caught up in the thread. Also, in the morning its hard for me to post in real time as I'm taking care of another business. Currently looking for 1339-1342 area for a good rr long. I d like to see...

Sometimes its just because we are too busy and cant post in real time. (currently catching up on the thread as we speak)

Last runner stopped out at BE Re-entering trade (full size) on another weak test 1353.25 stop 2 pts target 10pts

Unfortuantely, I think we are all right there with you. I try to keep my initial stop out of the noise, but when I move to BE it can be in the noise and get stopped out. What I've been working on lately is incorporating into my data (if I don't get stopped out initially) how far did my...