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Shan I am well thanks for asking. I think new people overtrade, and take too much risk. In other words people swing for the fences instead of trying to hit singles, EVERY trader is guilty of this. Nothing like being wrong on a big trade, this is when if you don't honor your uncle point you...

bump.

here is todays print of the April 650 straddle both price and vol have come in with the vol at 35.10. This is why you have to be very careful if you trade April contracts which expire today. If you do not understand this then myself or one of the regulars can explain this. :)

Here is a screen shot of the GOOG april 650 straddle, per TOS it went out at 39.60 or close to the expected move. The vol was 103.22 highlighted in red. Earnings were a dud in the sense that GOOG opened up flat, meaning punters got killed and anyone who sold vol did well (in general terms)...

magic coin flip says heads...buy em. :p

first I don't know what your position is, but if you are long puts and calls you are long theta and theta (time decay is working against you). An iron condor is by definition a put and call spread. I am simply suggesting you create a spread around the position that way you won't bleed to death...

you are long puts and calls, if you sold options above and below each strike what would you create position wise?

Falcon a delta hedge can be different from delta neutral, it is not averaging. If you were long 1,000 shares of stock and you wanted to hedge, you could sell options against all or part of the position. Newworld said he was hedging, not sure what the position is. :)

Falcon this is when you should notice vega increasing, all of a sudden people feel "risk" in the market, this is that balloon you are always going on about. You should be watching straddle prices here. So for example at the height of the panic you sell a straddle with positive delta you should...

double bottom in zb

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/04/nonfarm-payroll-120000-unemployment.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnalysis+%28Mish%27s+Global+Economic+Trend+Analysis%29[/url] Mish on unemployment

you may find this useful on zn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utcm3u4Dm04&context=C46430fbADvjVQa1PpcFPdVFuqA_FPAPwVqIz_iWIEC68r1t31O44=

There's only one way to escape et, hope you ate your wheaties!:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCVdVocHe18

this is not ACD but wanted to mention this as the signal was perfect this year, you could add this into your current level on the indexes. Mkt bottomed last year Oct 4. http://www.stocktradersalmanac.com/sta/research_tool_MACDEntryExitDOW.jsp

This traded all the way down to 1.62 back in 1998, the Russians were not too pleased by that. :)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577319870715221322.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

forex forex gave himself a plus one on one of his market comments, now that's HUMONGO!! (if only I could put this comment is colored ink, dag) :p

Good luck with your trading here. First you should know there is an ignore function so that you don't have to read posts from people who are inappropriate. Simply click on the persons name and then put them on ignore. I would recommend reading a book callled "Market Wizards" when you get time...

fair enough thanks.....:)

If you could please expand on this. I have limited understanding of this myself. I think it could be helpful to some of the more intermediate option traders. The point I was trying make is that once the option exchange closes most retail traders assume they are done till the open. I never...