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Riding the market up and down: https://twitter.com/JBSTrades/status/454646471187369984/photo/1 Then this came along last Friday, ended the day with 30% short may spy butterfly 60% long nflx/plcn/amzn weekly butterfly: https://twitter.com/JBSTrades/status/454713660267442176/photo/1 Then sold...

bloody day. gave back about 1/3 of the gains made last week!

PAMM is some kind of percent allocation? With how I trade and only trading options, I find it to be difficult to do multiple accounts and a % allocation. A lot of times I get partial fills and fills with lots of different prices. Thanks for the idea.

Do people simply post their dollar amounts of p/l here or do people post trades too? I put together a summary of my trades for the week that I posted on Twitter (https://twitter.com/JBSTrades)

Thanks sellindexvol66. Bad weeks happen to everyone and all the time. No sweat and I'm sure you will do better shortly. Good trading. Cheers

Definitely think the 140 character limit creates certain dynamics that both promote more participation and also what types of posts are of value. I notice that most people who do post trades are discriminating in what they post and generally only posting winners in hopes of drumming up interest...

Generally discretionary trading, focusing on SPY and other liquid stocks. As it relates to entries and exits, it's a combination of using TA and managing my risk. Also I will structure the trade based on my expectation of price movement and where possible on IV. This gives me some leeway in...

My results for the day

is this futures trading only? I only trade options could I post here?

what do you guys all think about posting trades on twitter? I have been posting mine on Twitter, not sure to what purpose, but would welcome your thoughts. https://twitter.com/JBSTrades

Actually, now that I think back, I received a refund for my initial combine after it finished. I was busy with real life changes so didn't want to start up another combined. Then a couple weeks later, they allowed me to do a follow up combine for free. In my books, TST was a good experience...

As an aside, I also sent them statements that documented trades over a 6 month period when I turned 35k into 350k.

When I failed the second combine, the original fees were not refunded. They changed objectives since then. Originally it was a pure profit objective of 5000 and you can't hit then 1000 max loss per day. I think i hit it 3 times but ultimately still made 17k for the 20 trading days. 5 lot...

I did the combine and although I met profit objectives, my style of trading required more time for TST's analysis and I didn't ultimately get funded. I found the process educational and didn't really mind paying the $200 bucks or whatever it cost. My combined was back in November of 2011. I...

The OP came to ask for opinions on how this might affect the overall market. I have no clue. But you are nonsensically attacking the OP when the question at hand is not centered around daytrading futures. While you are correct in stating that it wouldn't affect intraday trading because...

It's amazing how trendy does not know how to read. We ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT DAYTRADING FUTURES. The change in margin affects other participants who are not daytrading future, and the maintenance requirement DOES affect them. This is NOT about you nor is it about the ability to enter positions...

The OP didn't ask about daytrading margin. He, like me, is wondering how this would affect the overall market. If changes to the maintenance require would cause additional forced liquidation, which again has nothing to do with daytrading or daytrading margins.

so has anyone here or know of anyone who has made it through their incubation program onto firm capital?

Thanks for all your thoughts.. I ended up just buying a call on OTM september SPY calls after the mid day sell off and when vix had dropped back down a bit. Will sell the August to create a calendar spread when/if we get a decent bounce in the market.

Point taken. But if the market does settle down, and starts to retrace some of this carnage, could one anticipate that the Vix and IV would drop during the bounce? And if so, buying calls would have to deal with both the theta decay and IV retracement. The 25 Delta IV on SPY calls was at...