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took a small gain, moved my short straddles up to 1160, reduced my downside protection to 1.5x, but moved strike up to 1050P. looking to go long on the es again at market close, that's my liquid leg i suppose that i can long/short/reverse on a dime. As options are not tradable outside...

nm it's trending down AGAIN. wtf is with the selloff today? doesnt make any sense. Is it just fear the bill wont get passed in the house tomorrow

looks like we found a temp hold level. market is sideway for the time being this is actually good as the lower we go, the higher we bounce tomorrow if the vote is passed. will looking to go long at close today unless it bounces back significantly before then

holy crap what a selloff!! got stopped out at 1166, then reversed to short and got out about even. damn spect, what do you mean by "10 figures ready to hit?"

anyone playing this? cnbc: on ninja charts: ready ib booktrader: armed! time to have some fun :p

i have a quad core with 3gb of ram and latest version of java runtime. TWS(latest version) worked flawless since today. Then all of sudden today i am not getting es quotes, then tws freezes constantly and every click takes 10-30sec to respond. Reboot/restart didnt do anything. I ended up...

not isp i am getting stock quotes just fine. now my tws is moving very slowly, like every click takes 10 secs arggg what's wrong with my pc.

just came back

All my es futures and options quotes are gone in IB WTF?

does anyone know how qqqq moves in relation to es? although i am getting some good coins on es options, still lost a bundle from their bid/ask spread especially for otm back month legs. qqqq options bid/ask looks a lot better, but how does move similarly to the es and also in term of...

cnn just broke this: "The Senate plans to vote on the $700 billion financial rescue bill Wednesday evening -- two days after the House voted it down." tomorrow will be interesting, you have: 1) today we had a big up move, so market will probably selloff due to profit taking/unloading...

does anyone know why noone is factoring in wed (tomorrow) for any news announcement? also you guys are making this too complicated. mon: no bailout, market tanked tues: bailout looks very likely to get passed again, market rallied on expectation rest of this week: 1) bailout fails...

does anyone know why the news keep saying the vote is on thursday? I thought today is the jewish holiday and tomorrow (wed) is when they will vote in the senate.

fyi, i put up a gtc order "buy to close" on my nov calls on wm for 0.05. and it got filled today when i got home. broker is optionsxpress

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with all due respect guys trying to put chart patterns support/resist on the es right now with any timeframe larger than 1 min is like trying to do it to the vix. Completely pointless.

i just covered my put leg at 46pt :eek: so essentially my call leg is free + pocketing 12pt a pop. Was so sure i would profit from upside not downside, but will take it anyway i can get it!!! new position: sold atm straddle at 1140 for 100pt, and long 2x 1000 put and 1x 880put. on the...

hitting 60s now. 1160 bottom for the day? if we crashed this hard early...hmm.

looks like we heading to 1180 level. not sure how low this thing will go, but expect a rally this week. We are way oversold short term, just waiting for the fuse - probably the baillout getting approved.

Let's see you invested in something you have no idea about, then you lost your money and now want the government to give it back to you? I wouldnt piss on those idiots if they were on fire.