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So you had futures transferred into your account out of the blue? This is like receiving extra money from the bank that is obviously an error. Report it - don't mess with the positions at all.

Totally false or more appropriately: not even relevant to what we were just taking about with carry forward losses. Your implication is that without trader status one cannot use carry forward losses against future gains which simply isn't the case.

Dude you are going to get so beat down - you're not heeding anyone's advice and this is classic "I can make a boatload of money selling options!!!" naive stuff. Repeat after me: NO. FREE. MONEY.

Haha yep. Everyone can do this regardless of trader status or not. It still surprises me people think they can somehow only count 3k worth of losses against their gains. That's never the case - it's always been can only deduct 3k worth of NET gain+loss if there's a net loss, the rest carries...

Here, study this options chart:

You obviously don't understand gamma. Don't sell any options until you understand how they're valued.

There'll be a reset of the 20xx area but I'm pretty sure we're not going to be seeing 2100+ record highs.

The reason they're so fixated on this is because if they back off the manipulation even for a week it'll shit itself and guess who will look inept and powerless as a result?

You couldn't pay me enough to touch this thing with a 10-foot pole.

Ackman on suicide watch yet?

You add enough and at the appropriate area such that you're able to maintain the same level of risk you originally took on. Heck you can even move things to break even if you want but the point is your new stop should account for this increased size and you should add size intelligently (both in...

If you want to short VIX or express your long term view then head right to the futures. You might not find the most liquidity far off in the back months but you'll be able to construct your own "products."

It doesn't even really matter what closes first or last. It's irrelevant. All that's relevant is how much have you made on the trade so far and how much have you lost. Also your example, while academic, is a perfect example of how not to add to a position. It's doubling the size, using a stop...

Look, if you're in a trend, and it's continuing to trend, you *can* add. This doesn't mean you *double* your size nor does it mean you keep your stop 200 ticks away including the stop on the new position you just added. They're both separate trades and a combined position. Past each new level...

Sorry, I've found the exact opposite. Everything involving equities is more complicated. Things we do naturally in futures like taking shorts are not as straight-forward with equities. There's borrowing costs, dividends for starters. Secondly margin is not nearly as beneficial with equities...

This is totally product specific or something else is going on here. Never had a problem trading GC options myself. If you pick a product that is illiquid you'll run into issues - so stay away from illiquid products. Here's a list of FOPs I've traded that never had a problem: ES, CL, 6E, 6J, GC...

It's really funny in ways... since technology has progressed and durable goods have now become cheaper to make for the same relative level of quality - we should all be benefitting from that, right? Well newsflash: we *are* benefitting from it. There's really no reason everything we buy and use...

It doesn't matter if they don't set up the *same*. All that matters is they setup *enough* that taking them produces a positive expectancy. If you know this is going to happen why not: Increase your stop and adjust size that'll work risk-wise with that wider stop. Anticipate it about to...

Yet another Q3D anti-day-trading axe-grinding thread. Dude, you need to examine yourself first before blaming the markets for your inability to adapt to examine what's not working. That's where all the difficulty is coming from. You are doomed to repeat the same self-fulfilling negative cycles...