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Kim, I'm just now reading about these credit spreads, but when I see a trade listed as a huge loss of 100% or 90% or something, isnt that not of an entire account, but just the amount of capital tied up? how is that measured exactly? For example. Stock is at 85 and i sell a call at 90 strike...

Dang trader99, how can anyone compete? How do YOU compete? I want to trade for a living, but the more I read the more I think I should keep serving people at the restaurant lol.

beerntrading, lots of stuff there. So what is your thinking on Amazon stock overall? Is it overprice at 256 or 265 times earnings? Or its just getting ramped up? I think if it can outgrow the market for years and years it almost doesn't have a peak price. But I welcome other thoughts.

PennySnatch, please, tell. I love you.

Weird, those charts are a bit different. One makes us look like we are totally extended, the other makes it seem like we are kind of rationale lol. So what is going on here?

how the hell are they closing down with the market doing so great? this is like volante in here.

PennySnatch, TELL US. We are family here. Will not judge.

Yea, I saw that S2007S. Someone, I think Rickshaw, posted something on that earlier. I think NASDAQ is not just a head of the DOW, but S&P 500 as well. Maybe the whole rest of the market as well.

Diamonds, wtf? Aren't they like way overpriced, and very illiquid? How am I supposed to dump thousands and thousands of $$$ in diamonds quickly? This guy sounds weird.

Jem, I agree with ironchef. Your dad sounds like he was a badarse. Make him proud!!!

Soes is so full of crap. He says he is closing late yesterday, I told him not to. He blocks me. Thus he almost certainly closed. Then he comes here at the end of the day today and posts something sarcastic, indicating that he probably caught today's rise. I call BS. He missed the whole...

Ouch volente. I can definately tell you like to buck the trend!

This is incredible. It keeps going and going and going...

Dang ET180, any idea on the first one why the insiders were buying when it was so close to bankruptcy? If it was months later they might not have known, but if it was just a few weeks later it seems they would have to know about their difficulties!

Thanks Todd. Sorry, I was not trying to say that earnings never expanded and contracted. Obviously that is going to happen. But let's say that, with that happening, its going to be an average of 15% growth for Amazon but 6% growth for the rest of the market. So, for Amazon for example, it...

Dang, still going up even more. Visaria, are you still long I take it?

But isn't it a 100% true statement, and the problem people get into, is rather than comparing the selling of 1 put or the purchase of 100 shares, they compare selling 5 puts or 20 puts to selling the 100 shares? And hence they become was over leveraged, and then end up on a park bench?

Let's say Amazon. If the market's overall earnings growth rate is 6%, but Amazon can grow earnings at 15%, why doesn't it essentially have an infinite valuation? Because, no matter what price you pay, growth at 15% will eventually overtake the growth at 6%. Obviously its better to pay less...

Haha you bought JUST IN TIME for the black swan even that might not come back for several years! :)

Wowzers, you invested 80% of your portfolio in a single strangle? THAT takes balls. :)