That applies to every single strategy and has nothing to do with straddles, or flies, ICs, long options of any other strat, so I'm not sure what...
Who said anything about guarantees. There are only two guarantees in life - death and taxes. Trading has no guarantees, just probabilities. You...
Seriously? Let's say that two traders sell a 0 DTE straddle at the same time and for the same credit. One closes his position within 15 minutes...
@Matt_ORATS , thanks for the backtest. The problem with all automated backtesting is that there is no allowance for discretion. I did 0 DTE...
@waqfs1233 , what instruments are you paper trading? FX? Stocks? Options? Futures? If you really cannot wait, then open an account in the name of...
I'm not saying selling 0DTE straddles is a good idea, but if you do, then I would recommend buying far OTM wings for 0.10 each, to make it an iron...
Sorry dude, but there IS no trading idea. There's just your backtest results which are based on your black-box algorithm. No one can say if this...
Okay, so you have a set of criteria, which you don't want to mention, which generates signals that, if back-tested, produce the results you show...
Right, so there is some criteria that generates a "open trade!" signal and in 2021, it triggered for 2 major currency pairs, and in 2020 it...
So, basically you enter every trading day. Hmmmm.... So how come you only have 2 trades for 2021? And why aren't the no of trades more than 6 if...
How are you arriving at the "# Trades"? I assume this is based on some entry criteria which gets fulfilled, and each time this criteria is met,...
@markthepadrone , hi. Firstly, don't take any abuse you get personally - there seems to be an un-written rule here that newbies are rarely...
You are probably one of the best Hindsight traders in the world. Incredible! Pls tell me what other trades would have been great, with the benefit...
Do you actually just make up your own words, just cos you think you're special? vol-switch = just say "vol diff", FFS. strips - just say...
You see....to normal people, this reads like.... "Regarding.....blah blah blah.......mark". You buy a calendar at an edge of say three handles...
Wow, you are incredible dude - not only are you one of the greatest calendar traders on the earth (haha), but you can also magically read my mind...
Talking of actual trades, here's my last single name cal - bought and closed on the same day for around 20%+ profit. Put that in your differential...
No worries dude. In my 3-4 years here, having read hundreds of threads, thousands of posts by quants claiming to be able to decipher the vol...
LOL. Yeah, $300 is still a lot more than your woman makes working behind Wendy's.
So, we are in agreement then - that it was naive of Dest to just state that we want vol to rise for cals to be profitable. Can you kindly now...
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