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One would suspect that aside from Surf and myself, nobody on this thread knows Vic at all/ But then again this is ET where all posters are experienced, and profitable traders all the time.

I know a lot of really horrible stories of people writing lots of naked calls and getting killed.

Because they don't need to. I know a few old grain traders and they are the same way.

Look for the cane. http://www.dailyspeculations.com/Letter/cane.htm

Mostly stuff you can fade which is why I come here.

Bored, I guess? I'm not in the market right now. I really don't know why I post here but haven't made that many posts in the 5 years or whatever I've had a presence here.

Thanks, but there's no value to putting yourself out there and allowing people you would abhor, know something about you. Plus, someone might figure out how I keep an edge, then my edge would disappear as has happened to guys i know who gave it away and lost their edge.

But now I have a screen in my 9 screen set up just for Facebook. But that is friends, and few friends of friends(who do the vetting for me) in real life that I haven't met yet.

So you remember the old blog. Had to take it down, but I have all the files saved.

I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or an insult.

If you are an exchange member and trade the exchange's electronic platform, you get to see an identifier on who takes the other side of your trade, just like in the old pit days. You still know who your friends are. Things move just a little faster these days.

Put it this way, drinks were on me at 1:30PM at our local watering hole.

About 20 years ago, the wheat market was trading in a 3-5 cent range for the day. We were standing around in the pit picking off the orders, and when the orders were slow coming in, we would play around with the bids and offers, trying to pick each others pockets. When the market was...

Well spoken

One can design their own carry trade. Plenty of possibilities, especially in the interest rate arena.

SWTF????

Isn't the death rate anywhere in the world, 100%?

The best way to make money in the markets is to buy low and sell high....You'll never lose that way

7/11 is always hiring.

I'm sure that if you have to ask, then you cannot afford it:)