First things first..The dividend has "no effect on an option" as it should be accounted for,ASSuming you are using the correct option model.Make...
Havent gone thru this whole thread,but every begginging option trader as well as many advanced traders make this assumption and they are correct...
Interesting comment,and so very true regarding most programs.. As a discretionary trader who believes in a systematic approach to trading,I...
I think you are just explaining that Volatilty increases with the square root of time,and it is NOT an linear relationship..Very good point.. I...
Sorry,no hostility was intended,but I do think Mike was way too judgemental and whether someone trades for a living or not,really isnt at the crux...
there is no doubt a trader must take into account all the other consdierations you brought up,but i don think 1-2.5% is such a bad starting...
Gotha..The poster originally stopped himself down .20.I was wondering how you came up with 80 for the stop
I dont see how you can say the 2% rule is crap,and to be honest i am not sure which case you are arguing..more or less...or just not any hard...
STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let me interrupt this dick swinging contest for a moment before you guys cross swords.... The account is 100K .20 is...
Definetly take a look at Traders Studio....
I do hope you are talking about intraday trading and not position trading. I would strongly suggest one look at the correaltion of the returns...
Since you work at Signal,how about asking the powers that be not to rip our faces off on upgrades.. I had ADVget with TradingTechniques and...
I think you will find that most successful Elliot surfers employ various technical comfirmations before they stand up and ride the wave.... For...
I call..... If you are a pure Elliotician,I would like to see your accuracy. And you are more than welcome to use any if Adv Gets prediction...
Lets face it,Dow Theory,Alan Andrews work and the Elliot wave are all predicated on some sort of wave theory.I think most of us are in agreement...
If i am not mistaken,there is a very good read called "How I lost $1,000,000 trading commodities"..In the first chapter,the author lists 10...
"Elliot Wave" ,when combined with money management, proper position size algorithms applied and basic technical systems(MACD,MA,Stochastic) will...
No disrespect to anyone,but I can not see how you could reccomend to anyone starting out in trading to develop their code in Excel... First of...
For example if we have a histogram of returns with one peak at, let's say, +$1000 and one at -$1000, it doesn't follow that by setting a stop...
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