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  • #10,941
  • Oct 8, 2015 10:43am Oct 8, 2015 10:43am
Quoting StrayDog
Crazy PA on NFLX today....
I just hope it doesn't hurt my kitty.
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #10,942
  • Oct 8, 2015 11:47am Oct 8, 2015 11:47am
Quoting The Fool
I have a SPY Oct/Oct4 $200 calls calendar.... got in on 9/28 when SPY dipped hard under $190 and iv ramped up,looks like it has a chance for a nice finish......maybe net 90c out.....knock on wood ........ looking at big round number $200 around big monthly opex is no accident and if we get into next week and SPY tries to pin there TF will look like genius....even better, he will get paid
SPY motoring above $200 like I thot it would and I have to make a decision on this calendar. still 6 td's to expiry and the chance at a sweet spot finish...maybe SPY bumps on $202 and drops back down....or, get a good profit now while it's near the P/L apex and call it good, maybe SPY keeps motoring up next week and runs the P/L back down towards b/e.

As usual, money in the bank talks loudest & I am trying to cash out for $0.68, a 50c net....
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #10,943
  • Oct 8, 2015 11:50am Oct 8, 2015 11:50am
Quoting The Fool
{quote} I just hope it doesn't hurt my kitty.
Put a helmet on a kitty head, and no problem, esse...

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Quoting The Fool
.... As usual, money in the bank talks loudest ...
Yep.
Hope is dangerous in this game.
  • #10,944
  • Oct 8, 2015 11:59am Oct 8, 2015 11:59am
Quoting StrayDog
Put a helmet on a kitty head, and no problem, esse... .
orale, esse - if anything happened to my NFLX kitty, I would be very dejected.

ay Dios mioooo! - I see NFLX crashing up ^ I needed him to stick around $110....que chingado puto!
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #10,945
  • Oct 8, 2015 12:04pm Oct 8, 2015 12:04pm
Quoting The Fool
{quote} SPY motoring above $200 like I thot it would and I have to make a decision on this calendar. .... I am trying to cash out for $0.68, a 50c net....
TF just a minute late, as usual, fml....oh well, I also have a $206 calls calendar. O/O4, and many $206/207/208 call diagonals, as mentioned above...o please O Great Pumpkin, do not forsake me now!
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #10,946
  • Oct 8, 2015 12:08pm Oct 8, 2015 12:08pm
Quoting The Fool
{quote} orale, esse - if anything happened to my NFLX kitty,
nothing to do for NFLX DD but hold til ER day
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #10,947
  • Oct 8, 2015 12:11pm Oct 8, 2015 12:11pm
Quoting The Fool
{quote} orale, esse - if anything happened to my NFLX kitty, I would be very dejected. ay Dios mioooo! - I see NFLX crashing up ^ I needed him to stick around $110....que chingado puto!
Ah NFLX, hijo de puta!

Well... /NQ from -1.25% to +0.30%, broke the 60 point range, everything is going up... I should ask grandma Yellen to give me her recipe for that cookies...
Hope is dangerous in this game.
  • #10,948
  • Oct 8, 2015 3:31pm Oct 8, 2015 3:31pm
Holy shotzky ... . Love making money while at my day job ... . Out of 19 spreads of one kind or another today; mostly index/sector SPDR stuff put spreads put on on the dips, along with a little TLT action ... . Now I have to turn my attention to selling this rip; hope it sticks around 'til next week, since I'm not a fan of putting stuff on on Fridays (or Mondays for that matter). Fingers crossed for the kitties, TF.
Fireworks are fun ... as long as you don't blow your fingers off.
  • #10,949
  • Oct 8, 2015 3:55pm Oct 8, 2015 3:55pm
Quoting ZebraSquirl
Fingers crossed for the kitties, TF.
we thank ye. I won't be surprised to see a protracted battle around S/P 2020, but I think the bulls will make a run for August highs in October/early Nov....anyway, I love October...I am decorating my trade station with gold and crimson maple leaves and little punkins that I have sharpied smiley faces on....it's a glorious time!
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #10,950
  • Oct 8, 2015 4:05pm Oct 8, 2015 4:05pm
Quoting StrayDog
Ah NFLX, hijo de puta! ...
Holy guacamole, NFLX almost $116 AH, that's my Oct/Oct4 diag short strike!......
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #10,951
  • Oct 8, 2015 5:01pm Oct 8, 2015 5:01pm
Quoting The Fool
{quote} we thank ye. I won't be surprised to see a protracted battle around S/P 2020, but I think the bulls will make a run for August highs in October/early Nov....anyway, I love October...I am decorating my trade station with gold and crimson maple leaves and little punkins that I have sharpied smiley faces on....it's a glorious time!
pictures!
  • #10,952
  • Oct 8, 2015 5:04pm Oct 8, 2015 5:04pm
and did I just walk into a fiesta?
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  • #10,953
  • Edited 7:43pm Oct 8, 2015 7:26pm | Edited 7:43pm
Quoting The Fool
Looking to sell a Oct front week on the SPY O4 $207 calls, which I bought for 14c some days ago. I almost never try legging into spreads....cuz >half the time I end up with something worse - like this, but if SPY will blast thru $200 this week I will get something back and end up with a $207 calendar....
got in & now own the O/O4 $207 calls calendar for 6c debit, below are all the bullish SPY spreads....I need to see a little pullback to <$200.50 tomorrow so I can get out of the $200 calls, then a grind up to $205+ next week
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  • #10,954
  • Oct 9, 2015 8:32am Oct 9, 2015 8:32am
Quoting The Fool
Holy guacamole, NFLX almost $116 AH, that's my Oct/Oct4 diag short strike!......
well with NFLX pushing up to the call strikes, the kitty is dead, and the trade is just a calls diagonal - still lots of potential if NFLX will stick around $115 +/- $1 until ER day....
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  • #10,955
  • Oct 9, 2015 10:16am Oct 9, 2015 10:16am
Quoting The Fool
....I need to see a little pullback to <$200.50 tomorrow so I can get out of the $200 calls, then a grind up to $205+ next week
come to daddy...trying to close O/O4 $200 calls for $0.55 net, will get it if SPY dips below $200.50, will take my chances on next week bull action. Closing $200 calendar today m/l breaks me even on all SPY+VXX trades for Oct expiry, anything else is gravy...
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #10,956
  • Oct 9, 2015 11:32am Oct 9, 2015 11:32am
Quoting The Fool
{quote} come to daddy...trying to close O/O4 $200 calls for $0.55 net,
if it don't make, no problem, it will work next week as well or better
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #10,957
  • Oct 9, 2015 3:43pm Oct 9, 2015 3:43pm
Quoting The Fool
{quote} we thank ye. I won't be surprised to see a protracted battle around S/P 2020, but I think the bulls will make a run for August highs in October/early Nov....anyway, I love October...I am decorating my trade station with gold and crimson maple leaves and little punkins that I have sharpied smiley faces on....it's a glorious time!
September was good to me (up 18.4%), but October's starting off a mixed bag. One trade -- that YUM -- could put a dent in my P&L; everything else is shits and giggles. YUM tacked on two bucks and change today, so there is now a whopping 14% chance that I will expire out of the money by Friday. Naturally, every little bit helps to the upside for a roll, which is the mostly likely outcome. That being said, gonna stick with it on mounting pressure that YUM spin off its Chinese business, which may fuel a speculative up-run in the stock ... .
Fireworks are fun ... as long as you don't blow your fingers off.
  • #10,958
  • Oct 9, 2015 5:06pm Oct 9, 2015 5:06pm
Quoting ZebraSquirl
September was good to me (up 18.4%)........ YUM tacked on two bucks and change today, so there is now a whopping 14% chance that I will expire out of the money by Friday.
tt people did a study on post-ER trends, showed that a big ER up move usually followed by a uptrend, and vice-versa - but I don't remember what "usually" meant - something > 1/2 the time I'm sure.....sooo, definitely ride it and see what you can get back. I have some potential massive gains come Oct opex, but I'm not gonna brag about that, not the cowboy way....just quietly back up the truck and collect my profit tonnage, be on my way, we sure do thank ye.....
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
  • #10,959
  • Edited 7:57pm Oct 9, 2015 6:27pm | Edited 7:57pm
bigass NFLX pop brought the IVR down about 5% & that was enough to cut the projected kitty maxP by >25%.....squirrelly mofos.....now I need NFLX to slide back to the midpoint of the DD, around $103....the drop will pull the iv back up & still get me out >$1.00 net by judgement day
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  • #10,960
  • Oct 9, 2015 7:52pm Oct 9, 2015 7:52pm
AAPL DD debits $0.11 will give back 2x-5x depending on what the iv does up to the 10/27 ER day
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