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Post by cosmic on Jan 10, 2011 16:18:34 GMT -5
Yuk day with lots of interesting action. LVS flew as expected, probably will hit my target of $51 tomorrow. After that - SELL CALLS! lol RCL continues strength so I'm sitting with some loss on my puts. They may just decay at which point I'll get out. It'll go down the day after Opex no doubt.  No real trades today except augmenting a few positions. SQNM strategy working quite well. I can take advantage of arbitrage between the short calls and the long stock at any point and actually get a higher return than anticipated.  Hope everyone made some money today and will do so tomorrow. Members, please post your results along with your RDA of new and improved smileys!  |
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Post by Rich on Jan 10, 2011 16:21:08 GMT -5
these spy puts have got me going
I'm up
I'm down
I'm up again
I'm down again
have mercy!
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Post by demanuel2001 on Jan 10, 2011 16:28:12 GMT -5
Nice day for me. Scalped LVS stock 4 times or was it 5? In all the heat and excitement I clean forgot but I felt like a lucky punk. Rolled the weekly short put from $49 to $50 strike. Tried to catch a falling knife and bought AIG in mid-plunge. Got fed up holding my CYOU calls so I said see ya and sold them for a small profit right before the stock moved up another 60 cents. Overall about a 1% up day for the portfolio - it's a living I guess.
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Post by tajmahal9898 on Jan 10, 2011 16:30:11 GMT -5
OK day
closed CHGS position for 8.8K realized profit
shorted LVS at 50.21 (4K) - paper loss of 1.5K..
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Post by timber on Jan 10, 2011 17:00:26 GMT -5
i had a three red bull day today....i will have to go back and get all those trades....i started off bear and went bull in the middle.....so i did great |
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Post by kbk3ck on Jan 10, 2011 17:02:48 GMT -5
Just watched everything go down and come back up. Made 3.14% on SOXL. Holding. Made .90% on TYH and holding. Made 1.53% on TNA and holding. Down .23% on UPRO and holding. Down .88% on ERX an dholding. Bought 123 shares of QPSA @ $12.10 for a hold.
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Post by brosin on Jan 10, 2011 18:57:06 GMT -5
Real LifeFFR was level at .17% and remains squarely in "get your parachutes on watch" territory. IMO, it is giving as clear a sign as we have seen in the last 6 months at minimum that the equity market movement is not to be believed. My FAZ got a little less red, but still remains in the red nonetheless (my avg is $9.25) STEC and MVIS had strong moves to lift my IRA towards the 7% mark YTD in 2011. It still worries the crap out of me to see it moving up this fast.  Monopoly World / real time entries tracked in blog Big Cap - no moves, -1.6% on the day; only decision was not selling my DANG which went nicely green... it is one of only 2 long positions though, so I let it ride I remain 8% long and 92% short w/ a margin call - I'll have to meet it tomorrow if the market has not pulled back scalp trades - no moves, still holding FAZ for big unrealized loss,  acct breakeven / +.9% on the day Options Acct [/url] - no moves, acct -5.6% on the day, SPY $126 Jan puts continue to decay on me and it's starting to look like it will be until just after opex that the market will pull back?  All in all, accounts were down -1.2% on the day
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Post by papasloth on Jan 10, 2011 19:00:58 GMT -5
I posted this in a different thread already, but here it is again:
LDK is one of three positions I'm currently holding in my trading account. The other two are HGSI and SVNT. HGSI also released some good news today at the JP Morgan healthcare conference, and later on CNBC's Fast Money. It's currently trading up 4% after hours, so we'll see what the options prices are like tomorrow. I'm long the stock, short Jan 24 puts and short Apr 26 calls. My hope is that the puts expire out of the money in two weeks (which looks almost certain at this point) and that the calls expire in the money in April, so the stock gets called away.
SVNT didn't do much of anything today, but tomorrow they present at the JP Morgan healthcare conference, so who knows? Maybe they'll actually have something good to say, for once.
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Post by exabi on Jan 10, 2011 19:05:36 GMT -5
Bought a few AA APR 16 Calls....
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Post by rebel on Jan 10, 2011 19:27:47 GMT -5
took the day off.....road 4 wheelers & played with the kids in the snow...sold everything this morning 100% cash left a lot on the table with NVDA  missed the solar this is my 4 year old BOSS Mazie img832.imageshack.us/i/maziesnow2011jpg.jpg/GLTA |
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Post by maxi on Jan 10, 2011 19:29:25 GMT -5
took the day off.....road 4 wheelers & played with the kids in the snow...sold everything this morning 100% cash left a lot on the table with NVDA missed the solar this is my 4 year old BOSS Mazie img832.imageshack.us/i/maziesnow2011jpg.jpg/GLTA What an adorable little flirt! |
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Post by ppppp3571113 on Jan 10, 2011 20:05:07 GMT -5
Playing the volatility. Bought TNA @71 and sold at 74.5. Repeat again tomorrow.
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Post by kbk3ck on Jan 10, 2011 20:13:25 GMT -5
Good job.
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Post by timber on Jan 10, 2011 21:35:28 GMT -5
im going to put my trades down today because maxi wants me to so she can see that i dont hold long  ....i had 24 executions today ....that is pretty active for me....the only trade i lost on was ire and i sold because cos spooked me out of it  1. sell opk in premarket 2. buy ire in premarket 3. sell tza that i bought on close yesterday premarket 4. buy aib premarket 5. screwed up and sold ire 6. rebought ire in premarket 7. buy jaso premarket and sol 8. market opens ....buy admt 9. sell admt....only 3.5 minute hold 10. sell short tza 11. close vix calls 24 feb 12. sell jaso and sol 13. sell flpc 14.close vxx feb 40 callls 15. buy opk 16. buy to cover tza short 17. sell ire for a loss 18. sell short tza again 19. buy to cover tza short 20. sell short ung 21. buy caps 22. sell short tza the last three are after hour holds |
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Post by Rich on Jan 10, 2011 21:39:37 GMT -5
Good God, man!
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Post by timber on Jan 10, 2011 21:41:02 GMT -5
i lumped the solar trades together
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Post by timber on Jan 10, 2011 21:44:50 GMT -5
i think im hyperactive...if im not making money i get antsy |
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Post by kbk3ck on Jan 10, 2011 22:13:29 GMT -5
Man, have a smoke and simmer down before your head explodes.  |
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Post by timber on Jan 10, 2011 22:14:05 GMT -5
i dont smoke joe....i run alot
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Post by kbk3ck on Jan 11, 2011 0:25:17 GMT -5
GL tomorrow. Im back to work thru Friday.
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Post by tajmahal9898 on Jan 11, 2011 0:28:37 GMT -5
im going to put my trades down today because maxi wants me to so she can see that i dont hold long  ....i had 24 executions today ....that is pretty active for me....the only trade i lost on was ire and i sold because cos spooked me out of it 1. sell opk in premarket 2. buy ire in premarket 3. sell tza that i bought on close yesterday premarket 4. buy aib premarket 5. screwed up and sold ire 6. rebought ire in premarket 7. buy jaso premarket and sol 8. market opens ....buy admt 9. sell admt....only 3.5 minute hold 10. sell short tza 11. close vix calls 24 feb 12. sell jaso and sol 13. sell flpc 14.close vxx feb 40 callls 15. buy opk 16. buy to cover tza short 17. sell ire for a loss 18. sell short tza again 19. buy to cover tza short 20. sell short ung 21. buy caps 22. sell short tza the last three are after hour holds timber, can you please share the % return for today.. |
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