Quote from Ghost of Cutten:
Big VIX spike up to 39, intraday puke after a major selloff, fear widespread and market overextended after 2 weeks of constant selling.
I would say a quick bounce back to 1250, maybe 1275, is a good play here. Another way to play it with less risk, is back up the truck on US Treasury put options.
Quote from atlTrader666:
I cant tell if you're being sarcastic since you mentioned average down for several WEEKS lol... If you're serious then wow I hope that hedge is solid.
Patience is key
Quote from 1a2b3cppp:
I'm quite serious. I just got 2,500 shares of SPY @ $115 a few minutes ago. I post all my trades in real time (or as close to real time as possible) in another thread, and have been doing so for months.
Agreed 100%. I'm drawn down quite a bit right now. I don't care. In the meantime I'm making money on the hedge and on SPY dividends, and I know that eventually price will go back up again (since price is random, or at least random to the point that I personally cannot predict it), it will go back up at some point, and I'll have thousands of shares when that happens.
Believe me, if price could be predicted I would much rather do it that way and make thousands a day with 50-100 ES contracts at a time. But I cannot do it, and I haven't met anyone else who could (despite people who PM me and say they will teach me if I pay them a few thousand dollars up front, lol, gtfo with that shit).
Quote from atlTrader666:
Why wouldn't you just trade the ES contract. The SPYs seem like a waste of buying power... you can control the leverage in futures with less size.
What's your plan now with the SPYs? Minimize loses on any rallies? Become a value investor? Are you hedged well?
I remember 2008 too well... called bottoms too many times... it ALWAYS goes lower.
Quote from atlTrader666:
There's a bullshit bounce lol... I'm buying near close if we make a new low in the low teens around 1112... 1105 would be better.
The SPYs got to 1120 to the tick.
I average in conservatively when I try to call bottoms too. I am ALWAYS too early... knowing that I wait and am STILL too early lol.
Anyone know what's up with NEM... see that hard reversal?