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I cut my losses on the IBM puts and then basically broke even on the MSFT puts when they spiked up. In hindsight, I couldn't do anything with my options after-market, but I realize now that I could have checked the DELTA on my puts and hedged them by going long on the stock before the judge...

lol. Then you could take some of your winnings from CUNT and apply them to a good straddle on COCK. Hopefully ChicagoOne would come out with Futures on CUNT so that we could ARB CUNT constantly. You may want to hedge COCK in case it goes down sharply.

Naturally, this would happen after I sold the puts I bought.

Tips: Don't listen to anyone on ET -- it can be done. It isn't easy. Here is the progression I went (am going through): 1) Total cockiness (i.e. I am a trading machine) 2) Blissful naivity (I could never get hurt in the market!) 3) Total Anxiety attack (I'm in my first f%$%ing...

Here is the flaw as I see it: Schools teach this premise -- "The markets are efficient." First, this is assuming that all participants of the market belond to the same set. This set includes equal acess to information, equal trading platforms and speed, equal pattern recognition, etc...

Doesn't Iowa have enough of them already?

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Yeah but this joint is a dud.

How would you feel about a long straddle or strangle?

I would have to say the markets are more efficient as the ratio of what you know compared to what everyone else knows approaches one. Was the market efficient for those select few who knew THC was going to come out with bad news? Obviously, from their perspective, it could be argued that...

Market theory has always captivated me. As far as I can tell, markets are inefficiently efficient or randomly random, etc. There are periods of trends that take place. I've gone over a lot of the math -- some too complex for me to grasp. I am going to New Jersey with my best friend...

Hindsight is always 20/20

Lower deltas ...

THC is toast.

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Haven't tried -- but that does suck.

Pretty good arb opps so far on a lot of them.

You could sell the overvalued and hedge it .. or buy an undervalued and do the same ...

The market is 9:30 - 4:00. Then you have extended trading. The thing you want to watch out for is large spreads during extended trading.

Where? MSFT futures are undervalued right now.