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Consumer credit came out not sure why it is so bullish. http://fidweek.econoday.com/byshoweventfull.asp?fid=442732&cust=mam&year=2010#top

Echo this comment as I agree 100%. It was posted around jobs data so hopefully it wasn't missed.

Have you taken into account volatility? For most of 2009 I would let an order sit and the intraday movement would take it off center and get filled. Lately, there have been plenty of days where the market has just sat in a tight trading range and I've needed to move the limit to get filled.

Yes, because you brought it up. I have not seen any hindsight trades either (except yours), why even bring up hindsight trades? I refuse to further comment in B1S2's journal about r10. If you would like to discuss this further, please PM me.

All trading systems are not suitable for all times. I do not disagree with you. I do disagree with you however that r10 is not a workable system.

Not one person to defend the r10 journal? There are plenty of winners there too...the system is down, but less then $1000 (on a 10k account). If the system had traded the original system, (vs. the second system) the account would be up. Imagine that, even with all the volatility...

Cool. Glad we figured it out... no harm no foul I had missed your question as the markets were volatile and it didn't seem that anyone responded to your question. Part of a good strategy is knowing when to make a trade and not to. People who think that making the trade month in month out...

Please see your question above (I have underlined it for you) So yes I am still a proponent to cash secured puts. I guess my first answer didn't exactly spell it out for you verbatim.

You asked the question. I answered it. Sorry you didn't like the answer.

Jahajee, You are the best paper trader I have ever seen.

Yes, but again its all about leverage. Cash covered is fine, naked..not so much. Also see my post about getting hit on 'naked' calls. I put naked in quotes because it was not meant to be leveraged but still happened as I sold early thinking that the Sept calls were too far away and would...

Beat up today on Sept expiration...here is my post about it on r10 thread http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2079208#post2079208

Had my best day thursday and worst day on friday. I voted worst because friday more then took care of my outsized profits on thursday. here's the story for friday http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2079208#post2079208

Anyone want to take over the R10 thread or at least temporarily? The manipulation of the market by the government basically caused me to give back a decent amount of my profits for the year. While I am still up for the year, I am very unhappy how this happened. I'm so upset I need to...

Thanks. (Also to bigb) I downloaded the pdf document on sec.gov http://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2008/34-58592.pdf I also do some pair trading and I am long MER while short BLK. MER owns 49% of BLK. BLK is not on the banned short list.

Its all going to depend on settlement of the Sept contract. Lower would still help, definitely below 1275 and if we got down closer to 1250 I would still have about 50% of my profits for the year. Unfortunately I had to buy some December ES at 1265 in the premarket. I had rewritten...

I have a prelim number of 1279.31. Not sure if it has gone final or when it will.

Is it actually illegal to short? Or is it just proposed? Confused on if it is a proposal or actual regulation.

Thanks. I had to buy some ES to cover in the premarket as I was going to get a margin call (on my trading account)

Technically yes. Only because I thought the Sept options were toast. I will recover but I might just take off for a month as all the hard work just about went poof in this move. This is after I was saying I wouldn't take short setups because it just wasnt right when we were in a...