Recent Content by maler

  1. Naked Calls, That's All He Does.

    Find someone that trades for a living (i.e. lives exclusively off the money they pull from the market) to learn from, not a doctor that pulls in...
    Post by: maler, Mar 31, 2025 in forum: Options

  2. Option pricing... what is fair value? How do you know?

    Fair value for an option is best understood in terms of synthetic replication cost. Market makers as a rule don't bet directionally (although they...
    Post by: maler, Mar 28, 2025 in forum: Options

  3. which youtubers provide accurate information to learn from?

    Even though you are not looking for a strategy, you are looking for an edge. What Mark and everyone else is saying, is that someone having a...
    Post by: maler, Feb 24, 2025 in forum: Trading

  4. what trading taught you outside the screen?

    Observing airline stocks falling before 911, pharma stocks rising before covid, defense stocks rising before Hamas paraglinding, etc. teaches you...
    Post by: maler, Feb 20, 2025 in forum: Trading

  5. If You Had a Profitable Expert Advisor (EA), How Would You Use It?

    Great advice from all the posters above. Please make sure you are up to speed with all the registrations, licenses, and regulatory requirements....
    Post by: maler, Feb 10, 2025 in forum: Automated Trading

  6. End Of A Retail's Day Trading Experiment?

    If the graph is the cumulative pnl then yes, there is nothing there. If it were the daily pnl (non-cumulative) then you may have something. From...
    Post by: maler, Oct 28, 2024 in forum: Trading

  7. Curve-fitting to success?

    I suspect you mean over fitting. If that is what you meant, then no, you cannot over fit your way to success. Over fitting pollutes your thinking...
    Post by: maler, Sep 30, 2024 in forum: Automated Trading

  8. In reality, situation could NEVER be worse

    In a stagflationary recession the market may go down a lot in real terms but due to the very high inflation, not so much in nominal terms. Most...
    Post by: maler, Aug 7, 2024 in forum: Trading

  9. The Real Reason Traders Fail

    My 2c: 1. lack of edge; this includes starting with a viable edge which temporarily no longer works in the current market environment, or has...
    Post by: maler, Aug 1, 2024 in forum: Trading

  10. System development and trading

    Thanks, appreciate clarifying this.
    Post by: maler, Jul 11, 2024 in forum: Journals

  11. Dumbest thing you ever did in trading

    Forming a partnership and tolerating the other partners conflicts of interest.
    Post by: maler, Jul 11, 2024 in forum: Trading

  12. System development and trading

    RockMachine, may I ask what fill assumptions you use in your backtest for the option positions in your strategies: do you cross the spread (lift...
    Post by: maler, Jul 11, 2024 in forum: Journals

  13. Can anyone be my trading mentor? (short term trading)

    Unless you have a family member or friend of the family that will take you under their wing it is unlikely you will find a shortcut into this...
    Post by: maler, Jul 8, 2024 in forum: Hook Up

  14. is there ever a good time to average down?

    If your reason for buying remains intact and you have not yet put on all the risk allocated to this bet then averaging down is great. That is why...
    Post by: maler, Jul 2, 2024 in forum: Trading

  15. What's the maximum amount of leverage a trader should use?

    There is probably a lot of wisdom concentrated in that answer. The right leverage depends on the strategy you are trading and on you own...
    Post by: maler, May 2, 2024 in forum: Trading