User [gary fullett /152.202.237.31] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 20:59:20 EST 2000 User [lmarsh /208.205.55.183] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 20:59:27 EST 2000 good evening User [mrj /206.251.171.128] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 20:59:37 EST 2000 Hello Gary, Sal & mr J Hi sal gary marsh how is everyone tonight ok well good class last night just ok huh Mr J? I thought it was good enough ditto I think everyone learns something all the time I am going to have amos post his risk magenement ideas ok sounds good for everyone's interest I want to talk about options some more tinight risk maangement is important and I think ust be followed in any biz especially this one I like good chats because so many poeple get the log and I get lots odf email saying how they enjoy class and they like everyones participation hey y'all for fun ya might want to try etrade game $100,000 prize guess the dow? you pick stocks like in ncaa basketball 32, 16, 8 ,,,, we could look at charts and apply wyckoff tha would be eaier than commdites :) they pair stocks and you predict winner of each matchup easier what's the site url sal? starts now thru Mrch 20 etrade.com interesting is there a topic that you would like me to discuss before I talk about options User [amos /62.0.147.90] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 21:05:49 EST 2000 Hi amos hi amos hello amos might be enlightening applying pure wyckoff since we arent as emotionally involved there high low amos etrade has a contest for picking stocks 100k for the winner we should join to put wyckoff on the map what is stocks 100k? i get 10 % for telling ya bout it :) amos they start with 32 stocks paired off like tournament then 16, 8 4 2. $100,000 to winner thats fine sal if we win and we will User [davep /24.147.119.114] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 21:08:19 EST 2000 ow does it work sal how do you win? hi dave hey dave you cam wait up tiil day before matches to enter you choices hi everyone! what do you choose? i m using wyckoff :) hey teach, please explain test they give you pairs , you choose winner for next days greatest % increase what test? I am talking to sal it's over 4 days like b ball elimination tournament we should do this to represent wyckoff then use the money to trade a wyckoff fund :) how can you know according to Wyckoff which stock will do what?? well i'm lookin at their chart , wouldnt you Wyckoff is a "what if" paradigm , not "what" geeeze amos, i thought a chart was a char to wyckoff User [Peggy /206.173.174.243] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 21:12:15 EST 2000 didnt he first apply to stocks Good evening, y'all hi peggy hi peggy hi Peggy hi Peggy but you never know according to W what a stock will do yes sal Is it harder to watch stocks than comm the inforamtion is at the website? etrade.com? oh forget it, i ll play and let ya know how much fun it was You know that if you saw a selling climax, the probability is high that there will be an AR, but you cannot know between two stocks which one will have a sharper AR. amos would u like to talk about gold beans and the crb? May the force be with you, sal :) grains were up again! are these new charts Gold has a daily thrust, and is next week we have a weekly thrust--then we are no peggy going into a middle of the range, and the probability of a rally to continue is very high. Beans has to penterate the 520. Market has time. at what level is the daily upthrust? Crb DId what was expected from an uptrend--the cash made higher high. At this point LOK is low, because you do not know if this resistance will stop User [Peggy /206.173.174.243] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 21:16:59 EST 2000 market for a while or it will explode. All I know is that we are going to 226. When? G-d knows. at what level was the daily upthust in gold? you just said according to wyckoff you never know what a stock will do, but you do beans? good q sal On TUesday GCM went above Monday high aroujnd 295 sal, pleeeeze, I know what a stock is supposed to do, I cannot compare beans gcm is june gold and soymeal and know on a given day which will "win". User [sherri /209.100.189.161] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 21:20:00 EST 2000 thanks gary amos is longer term sal GCM is the "Golden" Composite Man" hi sherri hi it is amos? you did not know? no is that true ? live and learn never heard of it :) Gary, It is Friday in my part of the world, allow, some levity what does that mean, "Golden" CM is that new? It is a pond did u eat breakfast yet? no] amos u r cofusing people by gcm hope you had your coffee ,amos :) you are telling me? coffee and cream hi sheri hi lmarsh Today I had a rather innoccuous comment on INO.COM User [fibo /204.119.225.120] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 21:23:01 EST 2000 hi fibo for a guy by the name of Carl Berkowitz. hello fibo He said the other daythat the DOw is going to explode and hey fibo hi fibo hello everyone I commented that such a language was biasing people. You should have seen the slew of people that attacked me sam berkowitz? I saw "How do I dare to appear from nowhere and slander one of their honest and hypeless peoople on that forum. got a real food fight going on tfc forum that's the bad thing about some forums,.....the bashing So telling me that I am confusing people is no news to me. :) I shall repeat the GCM verdict. ino.com has a post forum? y please do we had a daily thrust above 293.6 Now if next week we go above 298 then the text of the large creek is almost over and we can start a nice rally towards 320. User [Lavona /207.50.1.159] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 21:26:07 EST 2000 Ino.com has Linda Rascke AND a forum hi Lavona hi, Lavona Hello everyone hi Lavona lavona hello talking re June gold yes hi lavona I brought Stillwater Minning stock at 26 it closed today 44 3/4 Love Ggold The point about GCM is that you mUST be long with a stop below 4 days low. It DOES NOT matter if you lose. If you do such a trade 10 times--you will make mopney great trade Lavona :-) 6 out of 10 times--and that is GOOD business/! significance of 4 days? happens to be the last low,. and I am lazy to go see the actual number k I would like to spend a moment on my last sentence if I may? 291.5 please tks Peg thank you peggy Look, folks, this is a game of probabilities. The whole idea of a trade is that you see a "business " opportunity. These business opportunities (i.e. price going up, down or sideways) flash that is a very important statement flash across the screen many tinmes a day, week, month. You are a venture capitalist and peoople like Steven Jobs come to your office and say:" Mr. Venture Capitalist, give me 40 mil so that I can go back to my garage and build a PC. You aske what is a PC? (YOu nvever heard it, accept politically correct) and the shlob in jeans and long hair says Personal COmoputer. What does it do? Oh, it writes, computes etc. OK kid-build a few, if they sell- Iwill finance you. But if I build a few it will cost too much, no one will buy. I must mass produce. now the venture capitalist shows Steven Jobs the door. WHat should he do? I will leave the choices to you, people. What I am trying to say is that we are like that Venture capitalist. We must, in order to survive--make the best decisions we can. So we look at all these exotic commodiiteis that we donot even know what they look like or tast (have you ever seen pork belly? it is GREEN) and we want to invest in something that will have a POSITIVE return. Rule number one--SIFT. So, Wyckoff gave us a good sifting methond. He said: IF you see this, and then you see this and then you see this and this-- Then your chances of making money are better than even. THAT IS ALL and I am not a rabbitt.] that is a great story excellent that is a story to always remeber that I am not a rabbit lost me on the rabbit your are a hare pork bellies are green - is that iraeli propaganda? lol! Bugs Bunny tks fibo lol whats up doc :-) LOL I have a question if we feel go,d is goig higher lol gold wooops and we cant afford the risk of the 4 day low what should one do as to not to miss the probable move? yes amos close very close Gary, if you want to rememmber the above story think what a venture capitalist means--it means he'she is ready to LOSE their money. If you cannot lose that money on that venture--this is NOT your game! gary is there a smaller gold on cbot ? there are several ways to play a market if you can afford the large contract with risk buy gold calls lets examine them 1) buy calls FORGET GOLD, it is the principle that counts. If you see these things happen an spread gold calls unlimited gain limited loss to what you paid for the option d you only trade those, perry soon you will have enough money to even buy the damn rabbit I am talking in general amos lol lol ! Gary, I am talking in major. rabbit as in that movie The principle is important. with Micheal douglass SThe etrade contest is a guessing game. Wyckoff is a s far from guessing as you get. You turn this trading into a real business makiing decision. That is why I like it and that is why I have the word "feel": I do not feel. I measure and guage the facts. If they some up to somehthing that has a chance I trade! If I lose, who cares? gary, finist about options okay amos let a pro take over lol :) hare hare I care if you lose money thanks amos I care if anyone loses money me too isn't "feel" just being so knowlegable that when you see a Wyckoff signal your brain says "see it, i have seen this before" trade it..? If you decision making mechanism is sound--then losing money is the best thing that can happen to you becaue it bvrings you that closer to the next winner. as a former floor trader I use "feel" alot amos and I disagree on that but I know what amos is referring to Oh, Gary, I do feel for you wyckoff pieces a puzzle togeher with facts so that elimainates feel' it appears that amos has started drinking on his weekned LOL:) so are you both saying with Wyckoff there is no subjectivity??? amos care to answer this is a loaded question. User [davep /24.147.119.114] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 21:45:19 EST 2000 my account sure isn't If subjectivity means that I have a tendency to be more prone to react to selling climaxes and another Wyckoff person has had more success with sign of strength--=-then , of course subjectivity is there. But if subjectivity means that I see distribution while you see accumulation then one of us is Wyckoff and the other is ffokcyw :-) lol :) lol (which "sounds" like Foxy) maybe that's myproblem i teach dyslexics :) okay so we are bullish a market what are the ways to play a market? 1) buy calls unlimited gain limited risk buy naked we have a drink with Abby Cohen most conservative way trade naked dance naked is that your cousin amos? yes, kinky Oy 2 ) options call spread buy a more expensive call Gary, let me ask you a question sell a cheaper call limited risk to what what you buy the spread for actaully I amde a mistake this is the most consewrvative way limited gain limited risk why limited gain? example gold is trading at 293 your are bullish you buy a 300 call and sell a 320 call brb User [sherri] left forum at Thu Mar 09 21:51:16 EST 2000 say the differnece is 600 dollars limited risk of 600 dollars this means ou have the right to be long at 300 and omeone has the right to take it away from you at 320 you dont care if they do you make money so you paid 600 and if the options closes above 320 at expiration you make 2000 thousand dolasr minus what you paid 600 or 1400 dollars do you understand this? or anywhere abouve 306 you make some yes y y questions? what would just a 300 call cost? it could cost 1400 and the 320 can cost 800 for this example it is hypothetical understand you can buy a midam gold contract whicj is 1 /3 of the big contract with a proper stop or you can buy the bidg comex contract User [Lavona] left forum at Thu Mar 09 21:56:14 EST 2000 if you want to be a tad more risky you can is it as liquid as the grain midams sell the put options it is fairly liquid selling option have unlimited risk limited profit to what you sell the option for okay? k what option would u sell k u would sell the option strike price User [Lavona /207.50.1.159] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 21:57:59 EST 2000 for the area that you didnt think the market should violate on the downside so if support is at 286 you can sell the 280 put User [sherri /207.112.162.138] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 21:58:39 EST 2000 selling options is very effective especially with 30-40 days left I will go option in detail on monday what is premium on that 280 I have a great wall chart for anyone that wants it I havent priced any options out sal but I can i was giving a hypothetical k with my example it is free let me know if anyone would like it What month are you looking at now? FREE???? :) as I said the best time to sell a put is on the selling cliamx What kind of wall chart is it? yes free everything I provide is FREE is shows every type of option strategy and when it should be used sure, I'll take one. commissions? :) ditto lol if you email to kelly knorris@ltg-trading.com sal I cant do that :) rats i have to pay the clearing firm if I could I would is there anything from the week that anyone has anty wuestions on? any questions bot I have fat fingers... cocoa today okay I mentioned last week corn today that the jump over the creek was the 830 area correct? y next lavona y y then i said there was a trendline resistance next at 850 right? go back to the archives then I said 880 would be key today high was 884 and pullback to support we could retest the creek at 830 but the next move should take u to 910 I would be a buywer in the 830 area looking for a move to 910 what should we look for if this was to occur what type of market behavior? Have we been looking at accumulation since 2-29 yes i would look for a pullback on light volume if it moves back to 830 it should be on lighter volume? why light volume? this willshow lack of supply or selling pressure yes peggy because it will show there is no supply/distribution? do u understand this? yes well there shouldnt be any disribution if the trend is up can I teach class now???????!!!!!!!! lol on reactions u were almost right peggy not there yet\ :) we should retst the creek and go higher just like gold did at the 293 area did they help explain sal? y thnx u r welcome corn what is the trend? up good up where is support? 20 220 it close above 251 CZ y k both are correct 223 ressisatnce? 236 235ish rok 228 1st I would say that support is clser to 222 in mabut 223-220 is the good support area right this looks like the second retest? correct lmarsh longer term correct peggy and mr j yes peggy very good we are in a range before probably moving higher amos disected this bean chart and he said the markets action was construtive when the mrket was at 509 he said that support was 506 area rememeber? y y and that resisatnce was 515-516 y then we said 520 what was the high today? 520 then I said a trendline is at the 522 area reemeber? I am also saying we are going to 6.50 y but what is more important is the longer term move that the grains can have when amos,........only g_d knows? :) got a time frame amos? you should never predict price and time simultaneously but we watch market actin and the support when hit reacted well y so the market is acting the way one would expect if we feel this is accumaltion feel? AMEN corn goes to support at the 222-225 area and seems to bounce well if we observe I like to feel amos sorry These are the choices, you are either barbara streisand or a Jew? so corn appears to have good support User [sal] left forum at Thu Mar 09 22:18:36 EST 2000 and undergoing longer term accumation I though streisand was jewish? but he wants to feel or to observe thanks okay lavona any ohter questons sorry, it is friday yes, a Q on thursday we will have light conversations since it is the end of a long week good points gary, thanks markets like corn and cocoa, would I wait for the area to be hit by price and volume action or okay peggy put an order there waiting you can do both if you have the pocket amos is correct if your funds are limited I would buy support with a stop just undersupport but amos many times like to buy the professionals differentiate between a position and probing a breakout of the 60 minute chart but I believe by buying support u limit risk better but many time sby buying a break out u will make money immediatly but the risk is greater because of the stop loss The difference between buying support and buying a thrust is that with ther first you are kay peggy> it is a matter of style as well not sure to be in the trade, and your risk is lower how far above the break, does it become "support"? with the second you are sure to be in the trend and your risk is higher the creek area peggy please read what amos wrote it what i said as well but very very important any other questions? what day there is a grain report tomorrow at 730 am peggy ...do you know fib numbers? if you want to be out before the report you can get out tonight a little bit, not confidently though pay attention to the Nasdaq. what about the nasdaq? why amos look for those fib retracements of the prior move We may have had a PLSY three days ago and now in a buying climax. ok will the money go to commodities, Amos? why would u say that we are in the biggest bullmarket in history as if I know why fight the trend we can go much higher Gary, we HAD already one sign of supply. isnt this what u told me about crude on tuesday? ;) NOOOO crude may have had its plsy and now the next rally should be watch carefully, I am not guessin, I am trying to follow the market you means lpsy? prelimary supply NO, preliminary supply, not last point of supply the nasdaq has no weekly or monthly resistance but crude does they also both do not have "Z" in their nhames lol amos the nasdaq volume has been about 2 billion shares what would u think the volume would be on a bc? We had a potential plsy2 days ago. That is all I am saying 300 billion? plsy prelimary supply this means that the market has encouterd some selling the cm begins to unload User [sal /216.192.235.66] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 22:31:40 EST 2000 and on the bc unloads the rest of his longs so the psy is the possible beginning of the BC and the end of the uptrend ok psy but it must be watched carefully it is a dangerous market User [Rich /208.223.134.137] joined forum at Thu Mar 09 22:32:54 EST 2000 does anyone know what the margin is on the Nadaq? it sure went up like crazy which one i ws gone? yes a BC nasadq sal thx margin is 48 k more than the s and p and the dow is at 10k and the nasdaq at 5 k so the margin on the nasda is higher than the s and p You do not have to trade a market, just watch its behavior and see if and that you can detect a buying climax. doubled in price I know amos I was just making a point hi rich oh by the way I was told by someone on the floor today fyi hi everyone, got my puker I mean puter back! that procter and gamble will be replaced by Cisco systems in the dow yeah rich how much vol on nasdaq for BC? 2.5 bill? Ia sked amos that I think about 3 billion It will be interesting when all the Dow is hitech... First watch the price action, then the volume when livermore traded it was union Pacific agree amos any other questions? any one has a illema with cotton? what about when cisco has a day like procter & gamble did? dillema maybe 2 late, but tactical ? good night all thanks amos and gary Could one play this market over next 6 mths with put spreads if BC looks confirmed? that will happen sal when they get to the dow they become dogs nite Mr. Jay. See you tomorrow? User [mrj] left forum at Thu Mar 09 22:38:11 EST 2000 nite mrJ! nite mrj night rich imenat mr j rich- if you see a sharp and strong bc-then either sell calls (with protection) or buy puts yes rich if you buy puts you may want to wait for a retest and some distribution first if you buy puts on the BC you must sell them when the reation hits amos, gary, is there much correlation with nasdaq & S&P price movement? other wise is it a coincidence that puts and putz are spelled similiarly? u will pay for volitity since it was out i assume youre talking nasdaq ? lol@amos and time eriosion may hurt lol no rich lol yes sal yes rich. there is a spread and smart money is long it are you talking nasdaw puts or qqq puts? Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge, Gentlemen. Good night. lol amos nite Peggy night maam nite peggy User [Peggy] left forum at Thu Mar 09 22:41:00 EST 2000 nite paggy any other questions? nite peg interesting, thx thanks everyone and a good night I need to be a good son and call my parents and walk the dog so I shall leave you thanx lavona nite Lavona User [Lavona] left forum at Thu Mar 09 22:41:41 EST 2000 nite gary thanks nite gary and amos....thank you thank you fibo rich were you asking about nasdaq puts? have a nice weekend all you know I apprecuiate u good night, & thanks, Gary & Amos dont trade those too thin sorry havent been able to attend lately, but i read all logs gn yest sal? nite sherri thanx davep nite amos good night User [gary fullett] left forum at Thu Mar 09 22:42:31 EST 2000