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1. Are you sincerely ready to put forward 10,000 hours of hard work with no guarantee of success, and the probability of failure? 2. Are you prepared to acknowledge that the time and effort spent on trading will likely be of more value learning another skill or profession? 3. Do you have...

I was pleased to read that he credits Transcendental Meditation as a positive factor in his life. It was, and has been, for me as well.

He gave a terrible speech to the U.N. I had expected better, even of him. Very poorly written, very poorly delivered. He sure didn't do us, or himself, any favors.

In a just world, he would have been sentenced to five minutes in the ring with Tyson.

You are hoping for a patent to cover "intellectual" property? From your posts thus far, I would say it is very unlikely you will get over the first hurdle.

Volatility equates to movement. You might as well ask, "Why does it help me to know the future amount of movement in an instrument or index?" First, it helps you to know whether or not to even engage in the instrument. And second, to what extent? Position sizing. And third, with what risk...

Eventually you'll realize that you're the weak link in your system, and you haven't included your burn-out in the model. As Yoda would say, "Wisdom at that point comes."

Likely I was getting wacked for the first few years, like everyone else.

It's a pretty common experience that the longer one trades, time frames lengthen, not shorten. Think about that and you'll save yourself a lot of time and grief.

People who post useless crap in chat rooms - Gone. Welcome to my ignore list.

Gosh, I may be wrong here, you know, but I'm thinking that you may not want to lead off your presentation with the fact that you have been trading a diversified strategy for seven years and have a thousand bucks to show for your efforts.

This so much reminds me of the late 90s when shorting puts was all the rage during the extended bull market. There will be a lot of people taken out in body bags when the shit hits the fan.

Funny, I know that guy too.

Google "Trading VIX" And do not trade anything you don't understand. This is especially true for VIX derivatives.

Given that your system has strongly under performed buy-and-hold the S&P, I would not wait for the phone to ring.

Your points are well presented. Thanks.

I tend toward extreme simplicity in my trading, and because this particular trade has a very strong positive expectancy, a straight call may be the best bet. But you brought up a good alternative that I'll research further. Regarding a type of move, the trade is actually triggered by a...

Looking for experienced opinions. I haven't traded options related to S&P products in a long time. But I have a solid strategy that will put me long on a Friday and exiting on a Monday afternoon, and I want to limit my downside risk. Thus, long calls seem to be the best way to go. So...

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