Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
I wish I had the money to jump in...maybe if those XLF calls hit. LOL
Flying down to Florida Monday am to pick up my boss' wife's car and bring it back to Ohio and gonna stop to see my family in Hawthorne, FL for a few days before I head home. Probably will miss out on trading most of next week.
My Robinhood app still doesn't show any options available to trade...lol
They just reverse split yesterday...I looked to buy some puts yesterday but there were no options available yet. My buddy is a big fan of HMNY long-term but I think with their current business model, they're going to consistently drop.
Any of you buy some longshot FB puts? Holy fook!!!!
I've got 10 $28.50 XLF calls expiring Friday...sooooo close to hitting...
lol Jesus...no volume no volume no volume EXPLOSIVE VOLUME.
Need to see XLF get over $28.50 before Friday...I've got 10 calls I forgot about at $.07 average.
Wow! SPY took off today!
I just got done raking hay and hopped on to check and found my $280 calls nearly doubled from when I purchased them. I didn't even check the chart since I'm too busy to keep watch. Sold sold sold. lol
Still down from when I funded my account, but recovering I hope.
I gotta feeling with the reaction to Trump's meeting with Putin, the market may take a beating tomorrow...but we shall see.
That is a thing of beauty, especially if it holds that trend :)
A buyout for $6+ would be nice for my $6 calls...
S&P 500 is apparently fighting to push through major resistance so I bought some long shot $289 SPY calls for Friday in case it busts that resistance and takes off on a nice run. Bought 25 @ $.01 so I won't die if it doesn't happen. lol
Yep, I bought a couple $280 calls when it bottomed out a bit ago for Wednesday but it's playing yo-yo currently...
lol...I quit watching and set a sell order for breakeven just in case it launched last minute. It auto-sold at $.07 during the last hour for a 65% loss.
At least I got some money back though...definitely could have left me with nothing.
Are you looking at 2 Day 5 Minute? I can see it on there I believe
I got 2 hrs for it to pop...sitting here at work cleaning my office avoiding any outdoor projects so I can keep an eye on the computer. lol
Almost panicked there...SPY ADX +DI ALMOST crossed below main line and she turned around. Looking good again for the moment.
I put my faith in the chart and it worked...keep climbing baby!
Kind of...they call it "limited margin". They give you margin capabilities and instant settlement but you also have to follow pattern day trading rules.
I can switch to a cash account and disable their margin features but I lose instant settlements which are nive when carrying such a low account balance.
Yeah, Robinhood won't let you buy options on their day of expiration so no go :(
Worse yet...if you're ITM and don't have enough to cover contract execution, they'll sell your options an hour before close.
Not necessarily a bad thing but if it's rocketing and you're not wanting to sell yet, too bad. lol
I got them at $.30
I bought them at $.30 yesterday hoping to sell by EOD with no luck...and Robinhood won't let me average down cuz they expire today. Bah! lol
Thoughts on what SPY is gonna do today?
I've got some $280 calls hoping to see it jump in the money before 3pm
Not seeing any announcements regarding a buyout but a few articles the past couple days suggesting it...I picked up 25 $6 calls for next week just in case ($50 worth).
Dang, man...lol
I'd get that phone switched out on warranty issues...most of my friends have Samsung phones/phablets and love them. I'm running a Pixel and it's pretty finicky at times too. Paid off in November then I can switch to something else. Probably a Pixel 2 because I'm a glutton for punishment.....
I'm still lurking...work is slowing down a bit...we had to put my boss's wife into assisted living so we sent her down to Florida to be near her family. My boss is pretty bored but he's also been trying to adjust up at his lake house so aside from little things, I'm not neaaaaar as busy as I was.
Just transferred a couple hundred into my Robinhood account so I'll jump in here soon. Probably wait until next week unless I happen to catch something crazy good happening.
I will be losing my ability to private message here soon but if any of you need to reach me, I'll either reply on here or via email/FB if it's not able to be publicly discussed! Wish me luck on this go around! Maybe this break will help me become a little more patient. LOL
I have that issue with VXX too...it's the new RAD. LOL
I agree...I dated a girl who's mom hung herself in the backyard a year prior and have a friend who's dad killed himself while she was a young girl playing in the next room over.
I watch a bit of reality tv...not Big Brother/Survivor stuff lol, but like My 600 LB Life and Intervention.
One of the most common causes for both massive weight gain and major drug addiction is traumatic events...either PTSD or they were raped/severely bullied/abused/molested/etc. Most of them didn't start overeating or using hard drugs because they liked junk food or their friends were doing drugs and they wanted to fit in. Most are escaping reality and eating/using drugs provided that escape.
Anyway, good job on SPY today! I can't wait until I can get back into the swing of things.
Yeah, take my word for it...it gets easier, but even then there will be moments. I lost my mom in 2003. Aside from bottling things up, I handled it really well. Graduated school near the top of my class and never got into any criminal trouble. My brother on the other hand ended up moving out at 18 (got a court settlement after being hit by a truck on his moped) and burned up his entire settlement in under 2 years after getting hooked on alcohol and crack cocaine...and buying a lot of stupid infomercial stuff while stoned out of his mind on weed, lol. He's clean and sober now and has been for years, but he really took things hard and we never realized it because he wouldn't talk about it with any of us. My dad tried to self-medicate at the bar and he ended up with a DUI and in a shaky marriage down the road. He's good now too, but it took him years to realize what his problem was and fix it. We all cope differently so the important thing will be to ensure nobody is self-medicating with bad habits. Sudden deaths are even tougher than what we went through because you never have a chance to prepare yourselves. Don't let anyone feel like they're weak for considering meeting with a therapist.
When the kids get a little older, you'll have to teach them to read your charts. That'll consume every bit of their minds and when they start making money, it'll ensure they stay out of trouble too. You got this!
So sorry to hear that, Sam...as someone who lost a parent at 38 (I was 16 and my brother was 14), I can't stress enough how important it is to help those kids cope with her death. Whether it be helping talk them through it all yourselves or obtaining some kind of counseling for them.
I thought I did ok handling it on my own, but emotionally speaking, I developed the habit of bottling everything up and it's wreaked havoc on my relationships. I don't talk about my problems and when someone points it out to me, I immediately shut down and they interpret it as I just don't care, when in reality, I just don't know how to open up about what's on my mind. Do anything you can to help those kids express their feelings and live as normal of a life as possible. It's going to be very tough for a while but it does get easier with time.
I'm still lurking!
On top of being absolutely slammed, my boss' wife had a stroke 2 days ago while I was up there working...she had a major one 4 years or so ago which resulted in her ending up with severe aphasia (she speaks gibberish but her brain thinks and hears perfectly normal speech) and right side weakness.
She also has a history of ministrokes and she doesn't want to end up any worse off so she refuses to go to the hospital with hopes if it's a bad enough stroke, she'll just pass away peacefully. She woke up feeling odd and had difficulty walking and slurred speech. My boss just figured it was a mini stroke because she was still talking and doing things, just a bit slower than normal. She sat down in her chair and took a nap. When she woke up, I evaluated her with my kickass Grey's Anatomy/House skills and informed him that I was pretty certain it was either a stroke or a mini stroke. He agreed and said he'd handle it...so I left for home and about 2 minutes later I get a call to come back. She had to use the restroom and couldn't stand up or walk at all. She'd also lost the use of her entire right arm.
Sooo...she still didn't want to go to the hospital but he was beginning to get nervous and said let's get her back to the main house and we'll evaluate her condition there and decide if we should have a rescue squad come get her or not. She got worse on the drive and he had the rescue squad meet us. They rushed her to the hospital and couldn't conclude it was a stroke via CT but assumed it was and recommended a transfer to Dayton. He agreed and she's been there for 2 days now while I've been there with him providing moral support and helping keep her spirits up. Since I lost my mom as a kid, she's kinda been a mother figure for me since they met and we got really close especially over the past few years as I handled much of her home speech therapy.
Anyway...my boss has decided that it's time to get her into an assisted living facility and he's going to fly her down to Florida to be close to her kids, so it's been hectic trying to keep in contact with everyone and visiting her. If you're the praying type, please keep them in your prayers. Getting old is a shitty thing when medical tragedy strikes.
I've been slammed at work too... working on three houses simultaneously. Not fun.
Today was fun though...bossman and I flew down to Sarasota, Florida at 10am. Arrived at noon, toured his new house, measured everything and came up with a remodel plan, got lunch and visited with his daughter-in-law and her husband, hopped back on the jet and got home about dinnertime.
Busy busy busy.
Now I need to get this all working for me so I can afford a jet. LOL
Dang looks like you guys rocked it this week!
I can't wait to have a life back...really don't want to have to wait til winter before things slow down enough I can trade again.
My stepsis and her husband drag race there and all over...you might be familiar with her husband, Scot Lamar? You wouldn't know my stepsis...he's probably in his 60's but she's my age so she wouldn't have been racing then. lol
Awesome! I have a buddy down in Port St. Lucie
He was in Venice and the new house is in Sarasota...my brother and parents are further north in Hawthorne and Worthington Springs (outside Gainesville).
Couldn't reply to everything since the board blew up today...lol. Good to see everyone is well. Sam, I haven't been to the dentist since HS and every time someone I know goes, they end up "needing" a procedure that makes things worse than it was to begin with. So I bought a Waterpik and I've been using it religiously on my gums where they're receding. Screw the dentist trying to fix me. hahaha
I've been stashing away money for my wedding next April but almost have enough set aside to cover everything...boss is home from Florida but has been staying at his lake house that I had remodeled while he was down south and we're still dialing it in. Now he just bought a new house in Florida and we're gonna fly back and forth to remodel it. Hopefully once we get everything set into motion, things will settle down for me and I can jump back into trading too. I hate NOT trading cuz it also means I put a lot of my potential future on hold too. I'm not gonna live forever...
I'll still be here in the shadows either way...don't wanna get behind on the learning aspect!
Hey guys! Still around...just slammed at work and haven't had time to even think about looking at stock charts. lol
If you guys give that a shot, I'm curious to know how it goes or if you figure out what the "catch" is!
Yeah, Sam, I had those $36 VXX puts...I think I bought 14 @ $.10. Went out of state and let them ride. They kept dropping and dropping...and by Tuesday I think they were at no bid. So I said screw it and set a sell order at $.01 just to get rid of them. I don't think they sold until late Tuesday or Wednesday am.
I took the $14 and bought some VXX calls figuring maybe I could make a few bucks THAT direction...
Thursday my calls went to no bid and out of curiosity I checked to see where my puts would have been at they were at around $.28 I think. So I'm really kicking myself at that point. Thursday night I pull up the options table and see $.94 as the price. I shrug it off thinking it was just because the market is closed and the pricing is wonky. But I check again mid-day Friday and I think it peaked right around $.99.
My $14 in calls expired worthless. LOL
I'd kick myself harder, but that wasn't anything any of us could have predicted...just a gamble play that I could have gotten lucky on had I rode it out. I could have just as easily lost that $14 I got back out of it.
I'm sitting on $41 VXX calls now...they were up yesterday but reversed before I could get them sold. Now I'm way down. Hopefully there's a little market shake up before they expire. I'm sitting on these. hahaha
North Korea canceled meetings with South Korea and threatening to cancel meeting with Trump over South Korea/US military drills... markets could be interesting tomorrow.
Nice!
I'm holding overnight a lot due to taking advantage of Robinhood's "instant settlement" feature...which requires abiding by pattern day trading rules. Once I get my account yp to around $1000, I'm going to revert it to a cash account so I can day trade unrestricted until I run out of settled funds for the day.
I just bought some long shot puts on it for 2 weeks out about an hour or so ago...I don't think bottom is in yet. Hoping to capitalize on it.
...except this time, I'm not selling for $15 if I bet wrong. All or nothing dammit.
Those VXX puts I had... $100 invested. Sold for $14. Had I just decided to eat the $14, I could have sold for $1300 on expiration day.
I sold my $36 VXX puts yesterday for $.01.......
$.21 now.
Sonofabitch.