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IRA OIH (oil index) + 5 OIH NH @ 4.60 (-1250 u/r pnl) + 5 PIH NI @4.30 (-600 u/r pnl)

I don't know - how was my timing on this one?

TTWO could see 20 tomorrow according to my psychic hotline

TTWO looks ready to pop - but which way? suggest long strangle or straddle and then exiting non-performing leg once a direction (if any) is established APOL = still think long calls is the ticket obviously it was a better put tradewhen I entered Feb 60c for 1.25 -- I paused kinda...

IRA (gonna set up a different Journal over weekend for IRA #1) bought 5 OIH NI @ 4.30 (Feb 145 puts) yesterday I scratched 1/2 of OIH NH (140 puts) for -0- could have scratched them all for no loss but didn't know IF I would get a 2nd chance to get in, and was tired of getting...

bought 8 SJX NT @ 350 (SOX February 500 Puts)

prepapring to close AAPL Jan 80P QAA AP (aapl 80 calls) taking 'some' heat ! but whenever it gets tough and it seems like you are not going to get your reward in positions-- remember that line from the Cruise flick "Cocktail" where Brian Flanagan says to Bryan Brown's character Coughlin...

APOL here's come the Sun on Apollo - caught some upside action; probably just noise OR maybe the Sun god is angry for marking his stock to <55 :D

covered @ 78.8 (figure it could close near 80) sold Feb 80p sold Jan 80c sold Jan 80p let's see what happens- one more day to sweat no too insane - yesterday its down in AH looking like its heading for 75 - today its up @ 81+ = power of options expiry. What's more insane is...

added 10 APOL Feb 60c @ .40 now +20 APOL Feb 60 calls @ .825 u/r pnl = (-850) closed (2) APOL Feb 55c @ 1.75 (sold @ 4.20) pnl = +490 Posted in this Journal my thoughts that APOL could easily be pinned back to 55 after the CEo resigned. It was easy picking for the shorts...

you once told me Gordon: "don't get emotional about stocks--- don't" !! Sorry guys- but one has got to have some passion about what they do, so I can't help myself --- this market is such a fantastic trading market - even losses are more fun lately in a market with so many opportunities...

shorted @ 78.25 next stop for AAPL = <75

order shorting AAPL at 80.50

answer <80 (perhaps <75) covered my short AAPL @ 76.35 will sell Feb 80/85 calls tomorrow - or re-short stock later this session also have sold January 85 calls today AND held my short Feb 80c :D :D :D let's see what happpens tomorrow.

TTWO long strangle APOL (trying) to buy 20 Feb 60c @ .30-.40

AAPL pop quiz: by Friday- willl appl be 1. <80 2. <75? 3. >90 4. none of the above

"volunteer needed for head-butt- no experience required." well at least I am following my plan to exit all my January options strategies this week (except taking delivery on some underlying) raise cash and start trading size on Monday. Good thing the market will be open all year...

now-- the Q of the day "where is the st bottom?"

reasoning/analysis???? gamma/IV crietria?? Let's leave that to the ANALysts at MIT. Confucius say: "when market go DOWN big- put go UP... when market go up Big ... call go UP...!"

one final thought OIL is TOPPING OUT - OIL stocks are TOPPING OUT I am going to continue scaling into OIL puts. I will go out further this time. But anyone who thinks OIL is going to go up forever - I suggest you re-read Hx and look back to 1999-early 2000! The bubble will burst...