Jack: Sorry you had to take such a big loss. I've been there myself and being part of a trading group like this can really help you move...
Please feel free to post your woman's intuition anytime. I wish I could say my account was up 10 grand. Nice work!
I might typically put on 4 to 5 positions a month and I only put on one at a time. So I think, Andy, that this is kind of what you are referring...
One of the guys I follow made the point that the NYSE was up 84 points today, +2% and yet new lows beat out new highs 163 to 156. You want to be...
Okay, Ryan here's something interesting that happened to me today. I placed the following trade this morning: DEC SPX 1285/1300 bear call...
Just so you know, the SET can on occassion (not very often) finish 5 to 10 points or so different from the close on the SPX the Thursday before....
Murray, glad you decided to join the forum. I'm a calendar spread neophyte. Could you be more specific about how volatility helps a calendar...
Interesting thought! But my "better half" already thinks I spend too much time in this chat room. I explained that this is a forum of...
I was gonna say, Donna. Didn't you post on another forum several months ago that members of that forum should "Take the Weekend Off" and now...
Well, maybe my question is too basic. What I was hoping we would do is just a quick primer on what happens to this position if held to April...
So, maybe I'll start with what I did back in April and we can analyze it. Started with the following initiated on 2/28/2005: Buy the...
Gator, thanks for setting this up. I tried one calendar call back in April based on a service's recommendation. I had great fun with it, but...
Thanks, Gator: I'll make this one last post on the calendar spread topic since I want to respect Coach's desire to keep this thread on topic....
Coach: Do you trade calendar spreads, and if so would you be willing to post say one trade a month. I don't know about others, but I wouldn't...
I'm interested.
I'm uninformed on buying T-bills or funds that emulate purchasing T-bills outright. How does one actually do this.
At the time they were place the spreads were deep OTM. Volatility is what caused me to stop. It only took two days for CME to rise over 30...
If I can add one more thing, because Coach is absolutely right. Depending upon how big your loss was you may feel the need to put more margin at...
I've posted here before on a worse situation that I had in July. I made tons of mistakes and the worst of all was not getting out with the loss...
I must be in some kind of weird kharma space or twilight zone. I had an order in with OX to close out an 1100/1110 Nov SPX bull put for $0.05....
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