Well, were are almost to the end of the two week point on this five week expiration cycle, so far things are looking good! Almost every position that I have out there is sitting near the middle of the trading range. The fed announcement this week didn’t cause me any heartburn, however many [...]
Posted on March 24, 2006 at 7:56 pm
By Ryan in Web Development
Wow! Its been a while since I wrote my last textpattern basics article, and life has been quite busy! Well, its back to basics time! So lets talk page forms. Page forms are the heart of each section in a textpattern site. Generally speaking the page form controls what will actually [...]
The settlements have just hit the market, and my March SPX position was 100% profitable! This was a great position – all in all the position yielded a 12% profit! The folks at thinkorswim are great, I didn’t even have to ask to have my margin freed up on this trade, so I’m [...]
Well this is supposed to be the scary day of the option cycle. I have about 30 minutes to decide if I want to bail out and close my March positions, or let the settlement prices determine my fate! Given the nice big cushions that my current March positions have, I’m going to hold [...]
Well its the last week of the March option cycle, and I’ve got a couple of nice fat cushions on each of my positions. This morning the market opened up, as I write this is the SPX is up 5.53 and the RUT is up 7.43; currently they sit as 1287 and 733 respectively. [...]
I’ve been looking through my logs and stats and noticed that quite a few people have stumbled across this site in search of the iron condor. As a result, I’m going to dive into my favorite little option trade and talk about the iron condor!
Lets start by defining what on earth this crazy “iron [...]
Recently I have been heavily involved in the evaluation and possible opening of a franchise business. As a part of this process I have done a ton of analysis, have been interviewing people like crazy and have learned a lot! I’m going to try and go through my process a bit and try [...]
In my last article textpattern basics – part 1 I reviewed some of the basic concepts in textpattern. As promised, this article will dive a bit deeper into sections, and I’ll start to peel the onion on page forms.
Sections
First off – I’m going to give credit to Thame at erratic wisdom and quote some of [...]
I have to admit it… I’m addicted to Google. I can’t live without their search, email and other services. I think the company is great and I’m hooked on their silly stock. Yesterday was a crazy day for google. They lost $8,000,000,000 (yes that is 9 zeros!) in market capitalization due to [...]
