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it means you are taking part in a pub crawl.

w00t! made .17 on SII haha...i haven't run my spread sheet in months and i had some time to pull it up this morning. the stock market is a silly place :)

sideways

are you talking about the ibankcoin PPT? UPDATE: i think i am retarded and you meant the plunge protection team as a joke....my bad

Example: You have a basket of pairs that cover multiple sectors and you wanted to hedge your portfolio risk for possible economic news that is coming out pre-market. Possible Solution: Beta weight your portfolio against the SPY'ders such that going into the close you would be delta neutral...

have you looked into beta weighting your basket with the s&p (or other correlated instrument) to reduce the bias?

Here is a rundown of my current status. August: I spent the whole month trying to tweak my system to have a better win loss ratio. I also modified my spreadsheet significantly for news, earnings and (up/down) grades. Therefore the results of the system were skewed in such a manor that...

Geeze...don't get all defensive...i wasn't flaming your post i was making a joke. I am sure you are doing fine, keep up the good work.

This is one of those threads that i like to keep up with to remind myself of how far i have come as a trader (because we have all been there in one form or another) and because its almost like a reality tv show :) Heres the formula: Step 1: Have a streak a few weeks long where you make...

How have you been faring with GE added to the no short list?

First time in a week that my moc's filled "normal" instead of completely off whack. I didnt even bother setting up pairs for friday or over the weekend. I have all of my finance pairs blacklisted on my spreadsheet in case for some reason i fall asleep at the wheel ;) We'll see how...

selling iron condors on the indexes... priceless :)

Busy day for the Brights today?

I've been getting hammerd this week on my pairs. It seems like one stock in the pair does nothing and the other stock in the pair goes bonkers. Luckily with the increased volatility it hasn't been too hard to get back the losses and then some. how is everyone else doing?

how about: "I don't stoploss, I margin call!"

reminds me of a quote from a friend who thought trading was easy "i dont stoploss, i margin call!"

I mostly do iron condors and vertical spreads to offset risk. What you are talking about seems more like covered calls/puts or synthetic positioning which is ok but i have not found those strategies to be any better than buying or selling the actual stock. Covered calls/puts have their place...

not me bro, maybe you were thinking of Midas.

its days like today that i am glad i hedge :)

I use excel to do my autotrades, and as far as algorithms i started with Don's framework and traded the openings manually for a while until i got the hang of them (as a human :) ), and gradually moved each element into my spreadsheet as an automated process. hope this helps ~g