Makin a livin', trading FSLR, POT , TSLA, PHOT
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Nice, you must have sold a couple of hours ago then.
TSLA going pretty hard the other way.Broke 219 and went green for a minute.
Did you dump the TSLA puts yesterday? Down a bit so far this morning.
TSLA that's a bold call on tsla calls. That being said I have watched it go up for hours when I thought it couldn't go higher. If the broader market wasn't down it wouldn't seem as scary but this one is going hard against the current today. Word of advice...never follow me cause next to these other guys my performance sucks.
EDIT BABA dropping too
BIDU could still work out. I'm paper trading puts from just after the open. Didn't see the gap up holding. TSLA....I know you don't like the term but that was just plain ol' bad luck LOL Hey it happens right. BTW I won a $50 gift cert at a Chamber of Commerce meeting Fri night so I guess I do have some good luck too ! Just watching today so you guys make some money!
Yep got to strike "lucky" for sure as using it implies that on occasion I actually have some LOL. "Unlucky" that's harder when it feels like I have that tattooed on my left butt cheek....I just need to be a little sharper and I'll get some winners. Every trade is a chance to learn something.
IWM 125 puts ..80+ now REALLY????? Biach slapped by the market. Trying to get up off the dirt again but getting hard to swallow. Not good at getting "lucky" ...really good at getting unlucky.
Yep can't live on shouda wouda coulda. I based on the likelihood that my position was dead money I made the decision to not take the risk. Thur to Fri hold is like a crap shoot at best but now and then a lucky roll happens. Just not for me. I laughed at one of my kids on the golf team last week. He said Coach I can't play smart golf ! Every time he tried to play the conservative shot it didn't work any better than just going for it. Feelin' his frustration today.
IWM down 1.30 pre market....My 125's would be a small profit at the open if I held.Yours would be a 3x or better. I held 2 days and lost both times so I finally sell to keep from being a total wipe out and this is what happens....Score card this week 1 winner 4 losers . Half my new funds gone. $%@ #$#@ #$&&
IWM 125 puts out .07 getting something instead of nothing. Was a bit better this morning but just wouldn't tank. It will drop a dollar in the morning now that I'm out....
Drinks on Johny!Way to go dude!
Maybe we get a bad unemployment report in the morning and get this heading south..seeya (holding again)
No rush it's groundhog day...again.
IWM I'm thinking if it gets past 125.68 then 127.00 looks easy.AAGGGGGGG Only hanging on cause it's so over bought and it's only Wed. Still the chances of a good outcome getting slim.
IWM 15 min never broke down, 5 min never had a candle close below middle bollie. Might stop at 126.70 ish....it's never my day.
aapl dropping spy getting weak...maybe we get this train going down hill. i hate to even post my trades cause they don't work out too well. You have a better strike. Mine was good yesterday but now not so much.
EDIT IWM forming a bearish engulfing 5 min candle...could this be the top finally?
Man you take care of her and make bucks almost every day and make it look easy! Puttin' us younger guys to shame. LOL
Yep I know your situation pulls you away from the computer so you have to try to protect your money. I'm trying to balance being patient with being stupid so forced discipline in a sense.Most times a can watch things 100% but need to run out or get some chore done and feel trapped here. IWM running over me today. About to get to my limit if it doesn't fade soon.
Hey Roy, you tend to use stops quite a bit. Do you trail and what is your normal margin? Etrade is a min .10 trailing. If not trailing, what your strategy? Thanks Brad BTW would welcome anyone's comments on this subject.
IWM 125 wkly puts ave now .31
indeed you called it.Hope your feeling about iwm is on the money too!
I almost bought the same thing (aapl)this morning but it jumped away from me so I kept waiting. LNKD puts early looked good but I chickened out. It bottomed but never bounced so x'd the call idea.
Big churn to nowhere today. Going to hold my IWM puts. They are a few pennies lower due to premium burn but the ETF is just about exactly where it was when I bought the puts. Maybe this will be the day holding pays?
LOL kind of starving right now. Have a teenager so it seems to disappear quickly .Frig run
IWM 5 min chart slo sto crossing, williams dropping, trying to drop through middle bollie...need some volume to get the cliff dive. Come on IWM buy me some groceries!
sorry Bro not looking for followers or to be followed. Tks anyway. Learned my lesson in penny land.
IWM wly 125 put bot@ .45
edit almost bought LNKD calls but just wasn't feelin' it (or seeing it)dropping again now.
BIDU 21.50 puts dumped at .13 only had a few but the fact that I could get in such a stupid acting stock today hurts more than the money. Wasted my money and time.
iwm 123.50 or 124.50's? Bidu trying to go down now but 2 hours sideways burned a 1/3 of my premium. Boring and painful
IWM one of your old favorites did a nice swan dive this morning. Surprised you weren't on it. You were tied up in a lot of positions already I know. Bidu makin' me crazy ,just tied to 218 for almost 2 hrs now. Who will run out of patience first? The longs or shorts?
Welcome to the "TSLA will bite you in the @$$ club" I'm the president, sec and tres....lol.
You might salvage something, most are fading pretty good now except TSLA going side ways but lower from yesterday. My Bidu 207.50 are sucking wind too.Need a deep drop and soon!
EDIT bearish engulfing trying to form on this 5 min candle now. Might be the trigger down if the volume picks up.
BABA is trying to sell off but this one is stubborn. I'm already not liking my chances here. 2 green 5 min candles with decent volume starting to show. AGGGGGGGG!
I don't even know why it gapped yesterday except a bunch of China internet related stocks rallied over there. Bidu had some bad news out about a big hospital chain pulling their large advertising budget away. The stock had been oversold on the daily but may have been short covering to some degree. Those positions should exhaust you would think?
BIDU wly 212.50 puts bot@ .40
BIDU holding the puts...Thankful the AAPL trade went really well but I don't want to give that back ya know.Have a good evening all and here's to a RED opening !
Was out for a bit..wild ride while I was gone. Who cares what the FED says...lol bidu 212.50 is stubborn support level. Looks like a good break through that area might get a down draft going.No luck so far...
SPY not liking the FED minutes ...selling off. Maybe we got some help on our puts?
BIDU posted wrong strike.. 207.50's ave .69 still not wanting to fade
EDIT I let it fake me around 11:15 looked like 5 min was going to roll over. I had a buy order teed up earlier but cancelled it. The stock traded higher but the bid on the puts stayed firm. Hmmm?
BIDU wputs 205.50's ave .69 (not too good)2 buys .85 and .52
AAPL bot 126 calls .61 (10:50ish)sold .81 (12:30 ish)+ .20 missed .90