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Excuse me while I PUKE! Well --- going to take a break from this Journal for rest of week --- while I bang my head against the door for exiting SOX Feb 510 Puts/January 540 puts a few days ago --- for a few pennies profit--- and miss today/tomorrow's move. ARgggh! AND to make matters worse...

OIH = 145+ Duh--- wish I was wrong and it DIDN'T trade back to 145+. What can you do ? Was it Pogo that said "we have met the enemy- and they are us"!! Obviosuly my OIH NH puts wre mildly hammered today. The good new is that there is a gap on OIH. What I really should do is buy the...

Friedman Billings ups eBay price target to $52 from $44 gotta love ANALysts - they had all month to upgrade and they pick the day b4 earnings! actually I agree with them though

you know what... I am totally confused about what to do with EBAY. I'd like to think it gaps a lot higher on earnings simply given the strength of the overall market so far in 2006. But there are cross-currents; and this one fooled me before. So I might try to exit/scratch my EBAY positions...

good analysis fortuna - bonne chance

no offense... but do you have any idea why you are saying this... or do you just have nothing better to do. Even if you are correct in theory (or practice) to a certain extent- that it might be better to be mentored by a top performer - why do you sound so angry in your posts? What or whom...

welcome - ty glad you found them useful 1. yes -- after Jan will try to state selection process for trades posted in Journal. Looking back some of my best decisions/trading in the 90s has been intuitive-based. Of course that intuition didn't arrive in a vacuum- something triggered it. When...

u r welcome

I have a tape by Guy Finley recorded at a Ken Robert's trading Seminar in the 90s. Didn't go to the seminar - just bought the tape, and played it a couple dozen times since (called "A Rich Man's Secret"). Only second self-help tape I ever purchased. Not the best name but an excellent excellent...

Ripley, just read your Journal, and have a suggestion for you... .... from this day forward try to never say "I NEED to or I MUST do" with respect to trading goals! Rather -- say "I WILL do... " ! Believe it or not there is a difference in how you talk to yourself each day regarding...

agreed anyone who takes a warm/hot bath in Epsom Salt - and doesn't feel like a total limp noodle afterwards -- needs to see a doc soon. It is absolutely guaranteed to make you relaxed - as if you took a sedative. Be careful not to overdo the time. Only one thing better. :p

found this very interesting. Can definitely relate looking back over the years to the early years in trading. The more flexible and less rigid I became in viewing potential trade opportunities, the more I looked at wider and varying scenarios and thereby broadened my views on what might...

2006 trading really begins next Friday, for me. The focus all year will be position sizing and money management so that I can exploit and maximize gains on the many good trading opportunities I continue to seem to identify. For me, one way to increase gains and let profits run when I am...

novel20 I am getting some new software this week and I will be able to post pnl for open/closed trades much easier in this Journal - as attachments --- then with all of this typing. net down on aapl positions so far-- not to mention all the upside gain missed by not being flexible and...

DNA :confused: unreal...! almost exact moment I post that DNA is in play- BAM it reverses higher -- & in a down market. I was going to enter 10 Feb 80c but offer only got to 7.30 - and I wanted to pay 6.40 or so. So held out for my price even though I identified the right entry point...

DNA :confused: well, knew it was ready for a bounce - so soon as I place order stock reverses and trades higher. Still gonna stick with target - not taking the trade for pennies.

OIH 1800 Feb 135p crossed @ 2.80a

order buying 10 DNA Feb 80c @ 6.1-6.40

DNA on radar screen for a long scalp @ <85 those who read Multioptions Journal last year recall I said short DNA @ 96-97 - and I was (planning) to get long puts near 100. Of course since I was still in too many positions at the time (and still am until next Friday) -- I missed the trade...

added 3 OIH NH (Oil Feb 140 puts) @ 4.40 now +8 @4.66 may be early - OIH may trade to 145 - was actually going long OIH calls when I exited OIH puts yesterday - let's see what happpens - also looks like a potential re-test of broken TL. target on OIH is 135-136