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Well done. ***Nice blog.

Price Price Baby

Hi NP, Are you using a script/indi to put the price labels @ the right side of your TP/SL/entry or did you place a dashed line on top of your orders to get the price labels to show? Would be great to have something that labeled the prices on the ...

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WOW! Great artwork IP.

Iron Pawn's Emini S&D chess game

Followed this company for a long time. Should have held the first time I bought around $6. CEO(Dr. Frost)(very large shareholder) sold his previous company to TEVA for billions.

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JCP (JCPenny): ***CEO bought 50,000 shares today. ($500,000) stock price = $10 Plan #1: Call Spread: Buy Oct16 8 call>> 2.08 Sell Oct16 10 call>> .64 Total Cost = $144 Max profit = $56 (not much but stock doesn't need to rise @ all to make full ...

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Pretty good "history" @ this area on the daily chart. A close below could get slippery :-)

Carpe diem: Intraday tactics for Dax and Dow

Awfully defensive towards someone who didn't say a word. I thought this was your first live trade?? What about Jun. 2nd?? (see below) If you "don't trust binaries" then why trade them?? (see post 1) Why change to "high impact required for posting"?? ...

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Should give credit to the author if copy & paste exact article :-)

Trading Strategy Bladerunner

Watchlist for a buy: OPK (Opko)

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Reached 26.40 area today on strong sell-off but I'll wait a bit as I think silver will drop to 17.90-18 area.

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One to watch near 26.40 SLW (silver miner)(watch silver & gold charts): current stock price = 28.50 Call Spread: Buy Oct16 26 Call >>3.35 Sell Oct16 31 Call >> .95 Total Cost = $240 Max Profit = $260 (with stock returning to recent highs) ROI = 108% ...

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Low cost trade. AUY (gold miner) (current price = 5) Call spread: Buy Oct16 4 Call >>1.10 Sell Oct16 5.5 Call >>.25 Total Cost = $85 Max Profit = $65 (ROI= 76.5%) Break Even = 4.85 ***Might watch when/if stock nears 4.00-4.50 ***Not the best looking ...

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Here's one more "Zeebs" style. Chesapeake Energy (CHK) (followed this company forever:-)) (some "debt" issues but which energy company doesn't) ***nat. gas is acting a bit "perky" lately Covered Call: Buy 100 @ 6.46 Sell Oct16 7 Call for .55 Max ...

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Used to watch that show all the time :-) Now get most info from internet. Cut out all the useless info. ***Wired motels in Shenandoah, Red Oak & Toledo when I was an electrician for 22 years :-)

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Nebraska here :-) My brother farms 2,000 acres. Weather is the one thing that makes grain different than the glut in oil. Weather highly influences supply for grains & changes quickly. War is about the only thing (other than price) that slows the ...

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I grew up on a farm so followed ag my whole life. Fundamentals in grains are as ugly as I've ever seen (beans are the best of a bad bunch) but the price is showing that. Based upon the recent COT report I think the funds might try pushing corn to ...

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