Recent Content by TD80

  1. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    Bobby you are going to be just fine, you have an eye to risk and it sounds like a SHTF plan as well, those are the key things missing from both TT...
    Post by: TD80, Oct 25, 2016 in forum: Journals

  2. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    To mitigate convexity risk while doing naked strangles, one needs to keep the leverage pretty low. If you buy wings, this negatively impacts...
    Post by: TD80, Oct 18, 2016 in forum: Journals

  3. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    If you are going to use a lot of leverage, you need wings. Of course by buying wings, it also takes less of a move for you to go to 0 in your...
    Post by: TD80, Oct 17, 2016 in forum: Journals

  4. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    I love the idea of being negative delta, it (essentially) eliminates crash risk. The problem is you are fighting inflation all the time, now as...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 30, 2016 in forum: Journals

  5. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    I think Bobby is playing for theta, IVR being high *may* be a bonus as it *could* lead to a subsequent volatility reversion which would then at...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 30, 2016 in forum: Journals

  6. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    This may be of some interest (I neither endorse nor deny TT methods, but occasionally there are some interesting research notes) :...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 30, 2016 in forum: Journals

  7. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    The problem here is that one can end up getting really crushed on a meltdown. One-way directional risk of accelerating magnitude can bury you if...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 30, 2016 in forum: Journals

  8. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    The whole key to this thing is managing losers. This is a huge point of disagreement between myself and Sos. Anyone who has done this long enough...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 30, 2016 in forum: Journals

  9. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    Well, with portfolio margin on an index you will (note I am not recommending you do) have the ability to sell up to 5 times the value of your cash...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 30, 2016 in forum: Journals

  10. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    I just use an option calculator but yes. If the underlying drops 20% it isn't the vol number you will be killed on, I mean you could go from a VIX...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 30, 2016 in forum: Journals

  11. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    You aren't even going to come close to blowing up if you are using 35% of buying power (assuming your effective BP is 5x1 naked short selling...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 30, 2016 in forum: Journals

  12. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    sle I've only been around since 2000 in terms of trading, so I'm curious if you have seen before then some oddities I have not. If one isn't...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 29, 2016 in forum: Journals

  13. Karen the Supertrader - TastyTrade Hybrid Experiment

    I think there is a soundness to selling premium, just like there is a soundness to selling car insurance. I basically see it as you are trying to...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 29, 2016 in forum: Journals

  14. Dude, Are you still trying to trade trends?

    Day trading and trends don't belong in the same sentence. I merely mention Soros as other people were discussing him earlier in the thread, and I...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 29, 2016 in forum: Trading

  15. Dude, Are you still trying to trade trends?

    Trends exist, people get too focused on just price data and "charts" and such and don't really understand the mechanics. The best trends are where...
    Post by: TD80, Sep 29, 2016 in forum: Trading