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but it still doesnt protect against overnight risk. My biggest fear of pair trading is what happens when one leg gaps overnight due to blackswan / news. Sure your stop loss will be hit in the morning when market opens but you will already be down/blown up, especially considering most of the...

QFT. Sounds simple but took me a while to understand this point.

As i understand it, if you are not over leveraged and just short and hold whenever vix reachs 30+, you are most likely to win. The problem is there is really no 1 instrument like the es mini for spx, that tracks vix closely. Is this correct?

cant, my account size is not 100k yet to request PM. I will probably want to grow it to around 120k before do so anyway. Tried to close the oct synthetic in the morning for +1 and switch to the oct ssf for a 2pt lock, but couldnt get out of the synthetic due to the spread. I tried for the mid...

I live in jersey city, it's divided into 2 separate worlds. The downtown waterfront is one of the safest and nicest areas around nyc without the city traffic/noise, all luxury condos and wallstreet firms such as the gigantic goldman sachs building etc... Once you step out of that bubble...

If you are looking to turn on the pc from a hard poweroff. you can always go with the mechanical appproach: http://mindstorms.lego.com/buildinginstructions/

Looking for some insight from people who had experience with one or both. I have been trading for a few years as a hobby, most of my trades now involve options and have >10days time frame and am profitable (2-4k a month on a 90k account). I am about to quit my full time job in financial IT...

jcvr, when you say margin, are you referring to reg-t or portfolio margin. For PM you need 100k, for reg-t i believe anyone can get it with the initial deposit of 20k. It might be some of the answers you gave on the form regarding your past trading experience isnt "sufficient".

rejected: http://www.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2008/09/03/2008-09-04T025740Z_01_T164730_RTRIDST_0_LEHMAN-UPDATE-2.html this whole saga is really getting quite comical. With leh tight lipped and media working up a frenzy to fill up their articles with whatever rumor they can think of.

fail.

Options is an alternative tool you can use to control your risk/profit instead of naked long, what you said has nothing to do with my comment on entry based on technical.

thanks atticus, that's good to know. Guess i dont need to setup a custom alert then, just having the email auto forwarded to my cell.

I closed 10x about flat just to get some cash back to trade again. this is more of an academic exercise for me now as i never executed a successful reversal yet! 50k cash lock for ~2 months on remaining 10x contract for a $2k gain :P Still be cool if it actually goes through though. I...

wow don is only 28 years old? That's much younger than i expected! Don, does the 3day and 2 week boot camp only happen once a year? If a new trader is looking to join, do they need to wait until the schedule time to take the training before able to fund the account and start? thanks

As you get older, one of the biggest risk of going bankrupt is from medical bills. Very smart people including the rich often are so caught up in making money they dont bother reviewing their families' medical coveage to ensure it is sufficient as they get older. Then all it take is 1 uncovered...

USO gapped below the 200MA from the last 2 days, wait for confirmation it breaks the 200MA resistence and reverse it as support before any long entry.

please move this shit to chit chat.

HA! direct from the source. So theoretically assume dividend is not in play, you can lock in an arb (at expiration) using efp if the ssf < underlying price ? Very good info, thank you.

Should've done the EFP as atticus suggest. My account is locked right now, cant trade anything due to IB's SMA(special memorandum account) requirement. :/ This is ridculus, I have a position of 20contract on the 85 reversal with a max unrealized loss before expiration under <10k, my excess...

Can you have a true directional neutral position (net delta=0 + net gamma=0 always)? meaning if tomorrow the underlying gaps up 200% or drops to 0, your only gain/loss will be due to theta and vega. Is that possible, i cant think of a way.