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I think you would have to adjust the position almost everyday to keep the exposure equal, so that might be a lot in transaction costs.

and I'm an idiot lol, I knew as soon as I sold it would just keep on rallying without me. Oh well, still a decent locked in profit so it is a good day! Have any of you all been trading the VIX spreads? Seems like there might be some potential the past few days in some of the flys

Actually, I just went ahead and locked in my gain. Sold at $52.95 thinking it was losing a little steam. I will be looking to enter again on any pullbacks, which HOPEFULLY there will be a decent one in the next 48 hours.

Yeah, I still am holding SVXY. I have been trading in and out of it a bit. On this most recent buy I am up $4/share, but I am only in half the position I have been trading. I will say, a big part of me thinks regardless of the FED outcome, volatility might drop a little bit after the...

Yeah, I got long SVXY last week and am up about 6%ish, was just debating on closing it out

If he is unprofitable and a tech company, they will then give him $2 billion lol

How do you think the market will react to it?

Wtf, I never realized he was doing that much size on some trades... http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?attachments/more-free-money-jpg.153145/

I exited yesterday while we were still green, around $49, and had planned on getting back in this morning, but just checked and saw it was already back up to $47. I might still end up entering though shortly as longer term I plan on holding it.

Thanks, I actually had a friend refer me to a guy today who specializes in special needs cases, so I am going to get them to setup a meeting with him and go from there.

Haha definitely not arbitrage, thanks. I'll check on cqg.

Does anybody know of any good sources to get historical data on the exchange based spreads for VIX futures? I've been trying to work with just the individual contract closing prices to manually build the spreads in excel, but I know it isn't the most accurate. I am just trying to find a better...

Yeah, I am debating on getting back out of SVXY now that we have rallied

Well, looks like I need to step it up lol. I forgot he was from TN also.

Thanks for sharing the link! I haven't looked in quite awhile, but a couple years ago I was looking for a cointegration calculating tool, but never had any luck really.

Yeah, I definitely will take a look at it. The living out back plan is just what the in-laws and my wife have pretty much always said. But you are probably right. I will look into all that as well and see what we can make work. I am hoping to help them get everything taken care of so we won't...

Haha no doubt, I let her know that the attorney was the way to go for sure. She got a quote of $750 just now to do a will, trust, and a power of attorney from a local guy. I work for an global insurance broker doing pretty much strictly corporate deals but I have made several connections to...

Yeah, that is why I was wanting to kind of get some feedback on here, because I figured with them not knowing much at all finance wise, an advisor would probably screw them over big time. But so you're saying to put his funds towards the insurance policy premiums so when one of them passes...

And on second thought, since the money is his from SS, for those funds would he even need to set it up in this way? It only is like $6k/yr right now, but I'm sure that will increase as he becomes a bit more independent and they start reporting it as such. Not sure how all the calculations work...

Hey guys, So my brother-in-law is mentally challenged, he just became an adult and receives a small amount of money from social security every month. His parents are pretty much just saving the money he gets, so that when they get older he will have a decent amount set aside to help cover his...