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Just a simple example: Lets say you short a stock at 16.30 and then you see it is going up. Then you sell weekly PUT 17 at 0.8 plus lots of PUT 15. Without PUT 15, you are safe up to 17.1. With PUTs 15, you will be safe like up to 17.20. Lets say stock goes to 17.10 next week. You make on PUTs...

I don't trade and leave. I do over 10,000 contracts a month. So just imagine trading about $500 contracts a day. Your assumption that I shorted at $16 and did nothing and came back today and I see I am making money is wrong. If you doubt, I can teach you how to trade in 3 weeks for only $20,000...

My cash withrawals this month. They are withrawals and not deposits which are signs of profit. $40K this month.:D :D :D :) :p

I did not even read the posts after mine. I just saw that by accident. It brought a smile to my face seeing that some people think I am wiped out by bad trades. Just today I did more than 600 contracts. If you have noticed my posts I have always said shorting is for experts (like me) and you...

I almost trade options and I use margin up to my ears and usually on Thursdays and Fridays I see big change in margin and I get margin call. I handle the case by selling some more options which brings me more cash and then setting the positions (mostly profitable ones ) to get liquidated first...

All of them consistantly need 30% (29.1%) except UBP which needs 40%.

Here are the results: For index ETFs like SPY, IWM, you will need 9% and for general stocks like AAPL and INTC, you will need 30%

Tell me some of the equities that you want to trade and I will put a fake order and see how much margin it needs and then I will let you know.

I have PM margin account with IB. I don't know how to exactly calculate margin in PM as I can do in Reg T and I dont try to do it. I know that it is higher. As you said, it fluctates a lot. One day you have positive cash and the next day even though the market goes in your favour, you get out of...

FB and RIMM have lots of fleas under their fur. Beaten dirty dogs jump sometimes. If you just add the third element (GRPN) to your portfolio, you would never retire !!. I was not planning to mock you. I wanted to give you a harsh wakeup call before bad things happen. Please care about...

Consider TZA (3x bear Russel 2000) and TNA (3x bull Russel 2000). If you short both of them (the same dollar amount) and not the same number of shares, most probably you will make money. If you had done that this year with no trade adjustment, you would have made about 10%. You can short 100k of...

Compare AAPL with RIMM. No one thought RIMM will go a kind of bankrupt. So we can see AAPL at $40 in less than 2 years. I don't say it will happen, I say it might happen.

Obama will be president. Rep will have majority in house and Senate will be in the hands of Democrats. That is why the futures are down 1%.

Update: YHOO has gone up from the time that I called it a short. I am still shorting it and at the same time selling PUT to maximize the profit. This is the same YHOO which was traded at $14 3 months ago. These are the last days of the run up. No stock goes up or down for ever. I also know...

Many people don't do that. The profit would be 1.1% in 3 weeks or 14% a year. Yes I know it is low !!. 200% profit is normal in the market:)

Trading for income: Sell PUT 15 for November 16. Bid/Ask are 0.02/0.03 Sell at 2 cents. This trade is for those who pay low commission on options. This is a very safe trade with modertae profit.

Actually I liked your post and I was kidding in my post. Your post had some good info

I feel you are trying to scare off shorts in an innocent way. Market will be down big when it opens on Wednesday even if we see a fake calmness at open.

Just heard on TV. They are hoping to open the market on Wednesday.