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I prefer to short the put. also it seems the SPY and IWM especially during panic downswings have a better skew on the put premium due to the panic last minute buyers and the fear factor limiting the number of put sellers willing to take the risk. and if the put option crosses the ex-div date...

as of End of day today. liquid net worth 1M. and will also pay off mortgage 100% tomorrow will transfer funds. house paid. deed in a few weeks from what I was told. Its kind of an odd feeling. I have always been careful with investing and saving.

He runs a Quantitative pairs trading mean reversion strategy. He can sniff out the arb opportunities and signal the trades as needed.

I dont trade ES. I do not day trade period.

Looks good today. My short puts OTM now. I did go long the underlying with the short put premiums SPY at 121.00 even. I could have bought cheaper though on the SPY I got filled the stock at 121 then it went down to 120.30s :) Gonna see how it pans out by expiration week.

So the Ultra rich have to go through all these different prospectus packages and hope to score the rare diamond in the rough that always outperforms the SPY? Look at the Paulson advantage funds, that is down over 30%. do you have an example of a hedge fund that outperforms the SPY net...

nope. https://www.hedgefundresearch.com/hfrx_reg/index.php?fuse=login_bd http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/05/markets/hedge_funds_pensions/index.htm Global hedge fund index. -9.13% YTD worse than SPY ETF. And MUCH MUCH worse than the SPY Putwrite

Just buy SPY and be done with it. That does not require sitting in front of a screen all day. and brokers offer free automatic DRIP.

If they underperform the SPY ETF and the SPY etf has a cost of 0.10% VS 2% and then 10-20% on any profits. And to top it off you get lock out periods where you cannot touch your investment.

No bailouts for MF traders like those at Goldman Sachs got. Not surprising.

Daytrading by individuals is a losing battle with HFT. there are other ways to make money in the markets but no day trading.

Sold the 121 jan puts for 3.29 a contract.

Looks like the economy has to be good, why else not? If people are buying toilets for 130K dollars this means lots of cash moving around and people spending it. Which has to mean expanding economy http://video.msnbc.msn.com/msnbc.com/45698382/

All my IWM short puts got filled for the penny to close. my SPY still waiting. I might just wait the vix is down.

If the risk free return on a 30 year T-note is 2.93% Wont it make more sense to borrow from the discount window at 0.2 and buy the 30 year not at 2.93% instead?

I am buying back my short puts for a dollar a lot (no commission) TD I am not on the Etrade account I will sell on etrade monday since they do not offer free closing buybacks. should I sell the puts today or monday. If no bad news happens then I should be able to grab some week end...

Why do all that work? why not just buy the call option instead?

Looks like RIMM will be a pink sheet stock in 5 years or bought for pennies just like PALM by HP (Only to be thrown out as trash later) RIMM has Two CEOs that means no decisions get made that make sense. RIMM market is shrinking. RIMM technology is Obsolete since the new phones are...

But usually the debt is used for crap acquisitions. Like HP buying Palm and then throwing away the entire technology a few months later. Microsoft buying Danger for 1.2 billion and then throwing out the tech a few months later. Usually the debt is used for acquisitions that end up falling...

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/655-000-malaria-deaths-2010-africa-accounted-91-percent-deaths-article-1.991359 So now the 655K that survive Maleria will just mean they will die of hunger or other diseases when the region they live cannot sustain so many people to begin with.