Famous option traders

[HowardCohodas]

Quote from Kevin Schmit:

Which is why most of us had Howard on ignore within a week of his showing up here. You were a little slow picking up on that.

I don't know if you are in the majority or the minority. I only know what people say in the open and in PM. At least you use a real name as your pseudonym, whether your actual name or not.

 

[HowardCohodas]

In only two of the seven trading forums that I participate is my trading trashed and am I accused of being a fraud. Must be that they are the only ones with participants with options expertise given the comments of the "experts" in this thread. :eek: And so it goes.

 

[atticus]

Quote from opt789:

You are one, and I believe I am supposed to be the other. I sent him a series of PMs to try to help and get him to understand his dilemma better. I gave him suggestions as to how he could get beyond the debate as to whether he has been truthful with his track record and accounting, and get back to the important debate of whether people should be teaching noobs to sell OTM options every month. I mentioned to him, because of the jobs I have had over the last two decades, I assume I have more experience with selling OTM options than most anyone here. I was honestly trying to help him and his 1 lot trading, but he ended up just going crazy and attacking me.

I made it clear that I don’t care what or how he does anything, I just figured I would see if I could help him. It was a waste of time other than the fact that I have confirmed he is a fraud and apparently suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. The paranoia is obvious to anyone who has communicated with him, and the fraud is because the very first trade a looked at from his list of trades turned out to be a spread that actually went in the money and he must have been down in the neighborhood of 30% but he just ignored it and got lucky because the market came back so he claimed a 5% winner. It is easy to have a good track record when you don’t use a stop or just ignore it when it seems convenient – it will just come back to haunt you when the big move finally happens.

Well then he's a fraud and a liar, if you want to split hairs. This is the only PM I have ever sent to HoCo, and it was a reply to one of his PMs:

 

[HowardCohodas]

Quote from atticus:

Well then he's a fraud and a liar, if you want to split hairs. This is the only PM I have ever sent to HoCo, and it was a reply to one of his PMs:

Opt789 said you were a ...

Oh wait. I try to refrain from ad hominem attacks.

 

[opt789]

Quote from atticus:

Well then he's a fraud and a liar, if you want to split hairs. This is the only PM I have ever sent to HoCo, and it was a reply to one of his PMs:

My apologies then, based on his PM to me entitled “My battle with atticus” I just assumed he was referring to you in his snide post.

Then he posts again insinuating that I said something negative about you, when in fact I wrote something positive – along the line of you know a lot and he doesn’t so it is inane for him to try to argue options with you. I guess my positive comment about you in a PM is justification in his mind for his earlier pointless post. What can you do – the guys got problems.

 

[tomk96]

well this thread went downhill fast.

 

[HowardCohodas]

My sincere apologies to the OP for the bad manners of atticus and OPT789. Your question deserves better than this.

 

[atticus]

Quote from opt789:

My apologies then, based on his PM to me entitled “My battle with atticus” I just assumed he was referring to you in his snide post.

Then he posts again insinuating that I said something negative about you, when in fact I wrote something positive – along the line of you know a lot and he doesn’t so it is inane for him to try to argue options with you. I guess my positive comment about you in a PM is justification in his mind for his earlier pointless post. What can you do – the guys got problems.

Haha, no worries. He's trying to insinuate that I have had lengthy or frequent PM conversations with him, when in fact the PM I referenced is the only time I've even communicated with HoCo in private.

 

[tomk96]

Quote from HowardCohodas:

My sincere apologies to the OP for the bad manners of atticus and OPT789. Your question deserves better than this.

your first response led to the slide. and from what i've seen on this board, saying you know more than about anybody else here really doesn't mean a lot. and that's no offense to the members, but many, if not the majority, are obviously very new to options.

 

[atticus]

Quote from HowardCohodas:

At least two on this board have told me in PMs that they know more about options than anyone else on ET. Perhaps they want to nominate themselves.

The thread went downhill with this BS. You go on a hit and run spree and wonder what caused the melee?