I trade derivaties for myself and I give technicals out to hedge funds, institutional brokers, and floor brokers down on the NYMEX in the Natural...
I too agree that delta neutral hedging does not accomplish enough. Going delta neutral only creates an illusion that you are safe from harm. I can...
Janitor, look into trading futures. You can easily flip that $16Gs into $64Gs. My first MONTH trading minis, I flipped $12Gs into $33Gs. No...
Bondtrader, I really do think that big banks have suppresed the price of Gold. There was also a lawsuit by a New Orleans firm that was delivered...
M22au, I just have a nasty amount of puts and shorts on equities. I don't actually touch Gold, but I do follow it. I let my equities side of my...
I'll admit I'm pretty bearish, and this is one of the reasons why I am very bearish. I think that the reserve ratio of many banks could be...
Ice my man, I lost a butt-load of money when I first started. I was able to figure out this style of trading after losing money and going...
You are right about burning out. That's what is comes down to. If I've made money and I'm really shaken up...I'll walk away from my computer...
Monee, Monee, Monee. So True, So True, So True!!!!!! You hit the nail on the head in your post. Master a few setups and that's basically all...
I'm so glad that I've found people who agree with me on this topic, especially because of the "real traders" that have given me a bunch of crap...
Make that money!!!
But don't you pay more for futures options because of the spot size of the futures lot? We discussed leverage in this thread. BTW, I did tell...
Yeah, those times are eastern. And I think that you reduce your stress greatly if you do not spend a lot of time in front of the charting...
If you had longed the dec or jan 25 calls on crude when it was at $24.80...you'd be up so much that the commissions wouldn't matter.
60 at 20%, 40 at bracket...right?
My most profitable months trading have days that go like this: Start trading 8:30AM Finish trading 10:00 AM Play video games immediately...
Tell you what, I'm a pretty damn good analyst. I even call turning points to exact numbers all of the time, and I'm almost always right on target....
I trade these sizes in e-mini S&P 500 contracts, 20+. I was just wondering what MMs could handle on the mini dow futures because I'm considering...
Or maybe MMs, would fill you and hedge with the biggies...maybe that wouldn't work so well.
You guys think it is possible to move markets with big size on mini dow futures??? I mean, if you scaled in 1000 lots, you could kill traders...
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