@shMark are you saying you make more money trading strategies that you haven't back tested, than you make trading strategies that you have?
Thank you. Neither. I have accidentally misled because my initial hijacking of this was to hypothesize about using lottery-type flies to hedge...
If you think that you can profit simply from time passing, do you think that the person buying the option from you doesn't understand the concept...
As an update, markets have obviously been very kind to anyone doing OtM call flies recently. 10 round-trip trades here. 1 loss & 9 profit closed...
You didn't know that I had opened a couple of small positions to test this. Closing orders filled for the first few this week. 19 days 20 days...
Gotchya; much appreciated. I'll have a go at modelling that over the next week or so as it makes sense as an approach. FWiW, my (very early...
Thanks @destriero I'm not sure what this means? I've been looking at c28DtE timframe initially.
I had a think about this during the Christmas break. Wondering about combining long OtM directional flies (close enough to have +ve expected...
Hi, Thank you. If your spreadsheet provides you with a consistently profitable way to enter and exit a trade, don't share it with a stranger,...
The clue is in the title question. For the 'lottery win' you need to consistently get direction right, magnitude of that move right, AND precise...
I always enter orders via Desktop/laptop, but partially because everything comes from Excel and everything works better on bigger screens than on...
A good trader consistently makes a net risk-adjusted profit (after all costs including their time) across changing markets.
FWiW, I use 0DtE to 3DtE as part of a portfolio and it works well. I'll be long some speculative flies and Calandars when conditions meet my...
hmmm, so wxy's conclusion is that the regulated market is rigged against him, so open an unprotected account, with an unregulated bucketshop,...
Is it possible to make 20% in a month? Yes of course. Can you make 1% twenty times in a month? Is it possible to make 20% every month?...
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