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Ok, went for a walk with the dog in the deep Wisconsin snow, and all is a little better now. But one thing that goes through my mind day after day is RedInk's comment on some thread somewhere when he said "Trading isn't that hard, it just takes a little discipline". The only thing I would...

It's been a while, but let me give you an example. He'd be long 20 sep calls because of a calendar. 15 rows down his sheet, he'd be short 20 sep puts because of debit spread. Long 2000 SPY, right? Well I would go through his entire sheet and figure out he had on a lopsided double diagonal...

It may seem like I just contradicted myself, but I didn't. When I do my thing in stocks, I don't feel like I'm competing. I'm just trading. I used to feel that way, but not anymore. It's just a game. But if you were to put a gun to my head, and throw me into the pits at the CBOE, I would...

B through D make me remember why I'm an equities trader, and why I don't want to compete against a guy like you. But E is actually pretty simplistic to me. This is the stuff I was able to recognize pretty easily.

Maybe I shouldn't have put this in the options category, as it applies to all types of trading, but a buddy of mine used to piss me off so badly with his "complex" options positions, I thought I would put it here. I remember walking over to his desk on a regular basis, and seeing half of a...

Yeah, you're short theta and long IV, so you might just want to take the position at noon on Thursday, and exit at the close on Friday. But (in the voice of David Feherty) I think everyone's thought of that.

Sounds like the day of the flash crash.

I love this quote. Not only because it's funny, but it's true. I can't remember which Market Wizard said it (Larry Hite, maybe?), He said statistically significant events happen in the market far more often than statistical math would indicate.

Don't they all, as long as you disclose what you are doing?

If the market gaps down, and a stock gaps up on high relative volume, and the market touches a -1000 tick, and that stock doesn't fall much, what do you do? Discuss that.

Oh God. What a mess. I haven't seen the Katie Couric interview. Is it worth even paying attention to?

I agree with you completely. But at the same time, I remember how a guy buy the handle of NORDIK use to post every single day. He usually just posted his blotter. He was a true day trader, and posted his flats, as well as big up and down days. But he was consistent as hell, and it was really...

There are those words again. I wish I had some. But thankfully, Brett Steenbarger was right when he said that when you find your niche, you don't need much discipline, because following the rules is all you want to do.

No one said you were selfish, goose. But I guess my idea of the p/l thread was to post consistent numbers so others could see your progress as you grow as a trader. If you only post a random number, then who cares. You're missing the point of the thread in the first place.

Guys, the reason a mod hasn't stepped in to tell Atticus to back off is because he is a top notch options trader. Please keep that in mind. Also, I never posted huge numbers on the old threads, but I posted every single day, even if I didn't trade, just for the sake of consistency. That's...

I've seen Donna's picture on skype. She's a smokin hot hippie.

Ditto. I get a K-1 every year now, and I still use a CPA.

I had a problem many years ago where I had a tax bill on a gross of about $12mm (an actual bill from the IRS telling me how badly I had screwed up the previous year's returns), and I didn't even make money that year. I called the IRS, And the person simply confirmed what I thought when she...

I could use a little global warming right about now. The temp just went below zero for the third night in a row. Yesterday's HIGH was -2. The digital thermometer was at -18 this morning. The high winds have just been a bonus. Good times.

Speaking of football, I bet Ryan wishes he still had Woodhead. That guy is a little animal.