How would you go about protecting your assets, realistically speaking? Doomers are always saying to buy physical gold and silver. But wouldn't...
Well looks like my straddle may be finally paying off...
lol
Is there any good reason why it won't? I'm seeing layoffs after layoffs from banks, pharma to tech, but it still hasn't lost its relentless march...
I still think its too early to be shorting the S&P. The Euro crisis is going to be back in June if Brexit happens which may in turn drive up US...
The intraday data provided by sites such as Stockcharts, Trading view, Yahoo and Google finance all seem to be encoded within the graph rather...
You're probably doing far more advanced stuff than me. I don't have access to intraday data nor an automated trading system. I mainly backtest an...
You can put stops on option trades? Thats news to me. I do keep a record of my trades. I use mainly TA so I keep a note of the trend. But I don't...
I bought some weekly ATM puts at 2080 on the S&P in anticipation that falling crude prices would push it down a bit a few %. Obviously I got...
Like this one for example: [MEDIA] I don't really understand how a sharp drop in volume leads to big advancements in price. And similarly if...
Which is better? 1) Setting tight stops that quickly fail at a small loss if you're wrong about the trend. 2) Or setting stops that are far away...
5 figures? 6 figures? Otherwise I'm finding it very difficult to stick with the 2% rule when options are costing me >$300 for just 1 contract...
When I look at the volatility graphs of the instrument I want to trade, all I see is just noise with peaks and troughs here and there....
Then what do you use
The entire historical data of the instrument
Literally just using 1 parameter and thats a moving average. I don't know how much simpler I can get
lol machine learning is way beyond my league.
So my backtesting model which is supposed to give atleast a 4.6 win/loss ratio from a sample size that covered 68% of the backtested price data,...
Lets say you got the trend wrong, it doesn't matter which option you bought/wrote based on optimal values for delta, gamma, theta or vega at the...
I realise now straddles only work in insanely high volatile events. Otherwise the breakeven is too high upon expiration of either the call or put...
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