If anyone is interested, Dr. Data from tastytrade has a link to a monte carlo type simulation of market returns. check it out. Heres an example...
Hey Bobby, glad to see you posting. Loved your journal. Anyway I wanted to ask, currently where do you reside in your journey as far as...
For some reason, when I see someone focusing so much on the losses it peaks my interest. Of course --- adversity makes the man! But, if you truly...
This entire post I'm replying to is the single reason why I decided to create a journal. Thank you for detailing so concisely your current...
That's the thing.. I know somehow vol(var) is the truth. Trading vol is the now and forseeable future and IMO its a solid way to extract alpha. In...
I've been long $UVXY put verticals all last week. (just one lots, as I don't really understand vol-etf's/etn's like I should... but I know somehow...
And that's exactly what creates legends in this game. You make billions and break billions then misplace billions again. The market will feed you...
I) FAT TAILS: I-a)- Randomness at the level of the scale of the distribution generates fat tails. (multi-level stochastic vol) I-b)- Model error...
"Market microstructure encourages implied.vol to be biased high. Market makers make the bulk of their money by collecting the bid-ask spread. They...
Study the current of currency, the flow of liquidity. The trade desks REACT off market conditions. They flood the markets, what are they trading?...
short premo should tend to sell peak gamma and peak vega? ATM has always been the crème de la crème of optionality. It's where the money is at,...
"In statistical terms, I figure I have traded about 2 million contracts, with an average profit of $70 per contract (after slippage of perhaps...
starting a journal to see what my thoughts are. I accumulate so much information and notice a ton of it is being utilized to its minimum because...
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