I asked him for his story and he send me another email. He was capitalizing on earnings, using options solely for leveraging. He started with $23,000, went down to $9,000 then flew up to a whooping $80,000 and now down to $13,000. This kind of plays are very aggressive and stressful, it’s more like gambling. [...]

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Last night while watching the US markets and doing some blogging, I received an email from Indonesia. He was introduced to me by one of my very close friend.
He started trading in July 07 after attending an options trading seminar while on a vacation in Malaysia. He then started a trading account of $50,000 [...]

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Despite of all the uncertainties, if you still went on to bet on earnings then you could have spit blood last night. Anyway this could be a good lesson for you and make sure you get it into your head.
I chose to sell when a company is releasing its earnings, cos the Implied Volatility [...]

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