Recent Content by shodson

  1. Best momentum/trend following strategy/strategies book/article/research paper in market?

    No, it's an x-day hi/low breakout strategy, filtered by a bullish/bearish regime as defined my two moving averages (fast > slow = bullish, fast <...
    Post by: shodson, Jul 23, 2016 in forum: Trading

  2. Best momentum/trend following strategy/strategies book/article/research paper in market?

    If you're looking for a book on trend following my favorite is Andres Clenow's "Following the Trend" from 2012 [MEDIA] http://amzn.to/2a50wJj He...
    Post by: shodson, Jul 23, 2016 in forum: Trading

  3. Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    In an effort to be productive, I did a backtest of a long straddle pre-earnings. We know IV will rise up into earnings. The question is whether or...
    Post by: shodson, Jul 17, 2016 in forum: Options

  4. Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    Sorry for posting off-topic. I won't post about short straddles anymore. I would think that any time IV in a stock is low and you may foresee...
    Post by: shodson, Jul 17, 2016 in forum: Options

  5. Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    Updated results from my original post. This is one full month's results. I'm still playing with and learning from this (with a real-money account...
    Post by: shodson, Jul 17, 2016 in forum: Options

  6. Who trades ONLY from their Smartphone? (Successfully...)

    I trade my NADEX account solely using their app, my account is up 40+% this year. I have other accounts at other brokerages which I trade on PCs...
    Post by: shodson, Jul 11, 2016 in forum: Trading Software

  7. some real trading results

    For some, a 41% return with very minimal risk exposure to the market is superior to a 50% return requiring 100% of my capital invested in the...
    Post by: shodson, Jul 11, 2016 in forum: Trading

  8. Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    You can't just go selling any old straddle before earnings, you need to have the right conditions in front of you to increase your chance of...
    Post by: shodson, Jul 4, 2016 in forum: Options

  9. Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    MU moved 10% and I still made money. You're selling a vol crush. It'd have to make some pretty big moves to take a big loss, but it can happen....
    Post by: shodson, Jul 2, 2016 in forum: Options

  10. Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    no, holding 1 night only (through the earnings announcement) - sell the straddle before earnings, buy it back the next morning after earnings
    Post by: shodson, Jul 2, 2016 in forum: Options

  11. Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    I've recently started selling straddles right before earnings announcements. Here are my results so far [ATTACH] I have a few rules 1) I only...
    Post by: shodson, Jul 2, 2016 in forum: Options

  12. anti-martingale (ninjatrader)

    An anti-martingale position size would halve your position after a loss, not set it to 0, so the change is (result == win) ? bet_size *= 2 :...
    Post by: shodson, Jun 16, 2016 in forum: App Development

  13. Orange County Traders!

    We have a meetup here in Orange County, CA, USA that meets regularly. Check it out. http://www.meetup.com/Orange-County-Traders-Association/
    Post by: shodson, May 19, 2014 in forum: Hook Up

  14. BMT Elite Membership

    Coming to this thread a little late... I have been following Big Mike before it was a forum and it was just a blog, mainly because I was...
    Post by: shodson, Apr 18, 2014 in forum: Educational Resources

  15. Best "realtime" Quote Data for NYSE $Tick

    I use $TICK in Tradestation, see attached screenshot
    Post by: shodson, Dec 2, 2009 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds