Nice trading on the Encana calls, Rob! I wish you continued success. Regarding the CAD/USD trading, please be careful on going by that info I...
No problem... i'm not really familiar with ECA. For an oil-related stock, I've been watching RIG for a while. That might be the one I'll...
Got the info on the ECA Canada version of the calls, Rob... Just to add wrt Canada and Oil: I recently signed-up with XpressTrade (may...
Thanks, Rob. Congrats on your ECA! it went up quite a bit, today. hope it continues going up. oil is hitting new highs and ECA is gonna...
Sounds like an interesting and exciting class! Have fun...
mini-update 8/23/05: NTES Dec 75 calls - (qty=5) risk-capital is $2700 reasoning: "swallowed" the jim rogers' interview article on asia...
Thanks... i just cannot do anymore high-risk/high-return plays for a while... i've been there... it seems you pick one way and it goes the...
1st question: yes... if the only reason for the puts was pure "insurance". i'd have probably picked spy puts, though. the position is...
update for the week ending 8/19/2005: loss of about $2200 (comm included in the figure). basically, the loss came from the high-risk play on...
nevermind... it looks like it was a misprint?
actually, i didn't know that there was that little difference :) i mentioned in my previous post that i only like to risk less than $3K per...
nice entries (on both the Feb and the Aug)! congrats. i trade the underlying directionally and use the options for leverage. the slightly...
i would try to argue in a philosphical sense: insurance premiums are based on statistics (i.e. the number of deaths per millions for such age,...
comments: looking to re-enter the NFLX Dec 22.5 calls here... unable to pull the trigger as that would put me heavily on the long side....
mini-update 8/18/2005: put a call-position on VPHM: Feb 06 VPHM 17.5 calls - wow! it's so rare that maybe it only happened to me once...
Thanks, Chagi. Appreciate your inputs. there were only a few times that adding to a losing position have worked for me. maybe 2 or 3 and...
well, there goes the high-risk play for a while... no more risky plays until the lost capital has been recovered from other plays (if it happens...
done. 8 more contracts @ .5 each 15 contracts, total risk capital a little over $2K ..... Good Trading (not mine :) )
yup... tough position i'm seeing right now. it looks like the stock has stabilized and found some support. i could more than double up for less...
Thanks, Rob! exciting, yes... but when things don't work out, it's kind of a downer :) . in the hole over 1200 so far. leverage works both...
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