Hmmm, 10% sounds like a lot to me, but I'm no trader.

Thank you! How could we manage without our daily Shelby? Luckily he's not a shill, since he explicitly said so.
/s

Indeed the middle class has a hard time finding some inspired leader to voice their issues. That's not only the USA, as far as I know (admittedly not that far).

By the way, I just caught up, with unsuitable equipment and a spotty connection! I had to skip some, or fly over the longest posts (nothing personal, amigo).

Nothing of the kind unfortunately, but thanks anyway  

Great to see you're still hanging around too, quite misguided as usual 

Thanks JSRAW! Technically I'm not back yet, just found some time and the technical means to catch up a little, do I replied on a couple of posts that begged for a word. I'll be back for good in a couple of weeks.

In the meantime, all I've seen is a little sideways motion. It's just as if she wanted her August break after all the tiresome up and down. Well dear, you can have your usual summer rest like just about every year. You can and will do whatever you feel like anyway, of course. You know we still love you!

I did vote sex, and I have several girlfriends. But
 when I think of sex, it very seldom involves any of them. Does that count as if I had none?

Reading a bit when I can, catching up isn't manageable for me on the move. But I just noticed...

We have a new legend!

Congrats Mic!

Are there "other bitcoins"? I think the prefix is a bit different. It does rhyme with "bit", though.

Omg, my backlog grew epically. I can't think of getting back home to a few hundred pages. I only have checked the price a few times during these days, but I was able to see sub 10k and back up. All seems normal on bitcoinland.

Managed to log in, but catching up from a phone is beyond me. I would like to post a game pic as suggested by a reputable peep, but I don't know how to remove exif data or edit the pic to show a slice at a time... I'll see what I can do.

Indeed, my daring half would have just LOVED to leave the long running until kingdom come (well, until end of year or earlier actually). A small FOMO condition. The short was too small to scale the profit taking: one order would have been fine - besides, I like to close shorts as soon as I can because they make me uncomfortable. But the long... the long...

Thanks for your advice, Hairy. The conservative choice has less glitter but more peace of mind while I'm out. But the entry point on that long was sweet indeed...  

Thanks JSRAW! I'll do my best to come back with nice stories and bits - food porn in Mic's honor, maybe. And you, please, mind your digests. We've got to the point where we depend on them...  

Thanks fillippone, I just needed your nudge. Everything closed, 1.46% profit on the play stash. Could've been worse.  

Thanks bitcoin, be a good girl. Or be a bad girl. We still love you either way, and you know it!

You're right fillippone, that's the rational thing to do.
Pity because I'm decently set up if a big run up happens.
I've left similar situations open for one month already a couple of times, and it paid out both times.
But this time... uh, I must be getting old and wimpy.
Long already closed, waiting for a $2 dip to trigger closing the short too.


EDIT Reminder to self: observing 11672.

I'm pleased to see so many fellow observers acknowledged my checkout post. Thanks guys!

At the moment I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I've got a double position as I often do. A long, in the green, and a much smaller short (size is about 20% of the long), in the red. Overall at the moment I'm profiting about 1.5% of the play stash. The dilemma is: close everything or just let it run?

I'm not afraid of the long being liquidated: that would take an apocalypse (under 4k as it is now). The short is so underleveraged it can't actually be liquidated. I've set stops to close the short in profit if it dips, even a slight correction would do.  So the long is safe even if she goes lower than my conservative estimate, since closing the short would boost my margin. If she goes UP UP UP, I will keep profiting with a slight 20% handicap because of the short. The issue is I don't want to miss out on a potential 12k+ run if it happens in these 3-4 weeks.

What would you do if you were in my shoes?

I'm twelve pages behind and I'm leaving in a few hours. It feels bad to leave with a backlog to start  
I will be out for a month more or less, and my access to this forum will be very limited.
I hope she behaves while I'm not here. I will be checking on her anyway

Maybe I'll be able to able to post before I leave. If not, see you in a few weeks.

Bitcoin's hard money
an SSD won't cut it
real hard disk needed

#haiku

@Pamoldar, @LFC - It seems both of you share my thought. 10k is probably going to be the post in the middle of the battlefield. I don't think we've left the 4 digits behind for good. However, my gut does whisper that by the end of 2019 we'll be off to distant shores.

Of course, we all know where stuff from the gut has to pass... this is strictly SOMA.

Good chart, comforting.
But nothing "seems to be sure"
She does what she wants.

#haiku

Corn gently climbing
doesn't feel like a short squeeze
yet, don't say "we're safe"

#haiku