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Judging by the OP I would assume that he/she hasn't thought of that. He simply asked if, "I'm day trading options should I use market orders?". Obviously if he is trading SPY it isn't that relevant but if he is trading spreads or any less liquid markets it is going to make a huge difference...

I don't know if nimble is the right word. For me, it took learning that if you try once and fail it's ok to try again. It's when you fail 3 or 4 times in a row take sometime off and let yourself garner some new ideas to trade. I've also learned to almost never try the same type trade again...

Yeah I've been watching it pretty closely. I actually think you could see more come out of it if we keep going with no real news out of Syria but I think there would maybe be some edge here in owning vol maybe the Sept. 20 134 straddle. I'm just staying away for the rest of today as I just...

I'm out of everything except my 2 lot of mgc that I'm still sitting on. I guess I can keep doing it but I just figured my style, swing trading, and the fact I can go a few days without making a trade would be to boring to garner much interest. Also, I basically focus on one sector. Still...

1) Probably not going to put the AAPL trade on as I am to indecisive on the direction. 2) I notice you continue to put on trades that will capitalize on a move to the downside in the ES. At what point do you change your mind on the bear side? Just curious as I have found myself way out of...

Cool, thanks for the help.

If the bid ask is 20 cents wide and you are trading options intraday good luck using market orders. No offense, if you think market orders are viable then it's pretty clear you have no idea what you are doing.

I'm fairly neutral to bearish on the price as I think the S&P is more than likely a sell this week so even if there is good news out of AAPL tues. on their new product I think the vol gets crushed and the stock doesn't move the 20 pts. you can sell the weekly ATM 500 straddle. The wings were...

Since I've started to get interested in trading vol. I was wondering if you were looking at AAPL tomorrow. Was thinking of putting on the 540/500/460 iron fly? Also curious if you ever look at something like yelp? I can see that not being liquid enough. Do you mainly just trade the indices...

Using market orders and trading options intraday? You are going to get slaughtered by the bid ask.

Lol, is this some weak attempt at a pump and dump or some kind of mentor scheme? One guy comments and he has 1 post and a reg date of august 2013. Hmmmm!?!?

Nice post.

Will probably be adding to my AAPL short or to my TLT calls at EOD today. I also will more than likely add another lot to my MGC long. Will update as I go and give a full run of my positions at the end of today.

Thanks for answering my question. Keep going strong with the journal.

TLT calls are busting my balls right now but will hold them a little longer because they are really oversold and I would expect some kind of bounce out of them. Frankly, I'm more bullish on them here then I was when I bought them.

Bought 3 Gdx Sept. 29 calls for 1.10 3 Gdx Sept. 30 calls for 0.72

Quantity of drugs used at the end of the day.

Really liking the price action today in gold and the miners. Will be looking to get into some gdx calls on the open if this keeps up.

I think the bear side is the right side right now. I'm not sure if we rally into tomorrow I think it's pretty possible that we see some weakness today. Another question, what's your opinion of vol? For the fly you are in are you worried about a possible jump in vol on a down move in ES...

Added one lot to my mgc at 1395. I think the reaction to the Syria postponement is overdone and overall things are still rocky for the world for the next month. I still think it's possible that gold trades 1350 but I think we have a decent chance for a reversal here. I really like the fact...