Start off by reading coach's SPX credit spread trader thread as a primer. The position is hedged by your long, so you know up front what your risk...
It's good that your aggressive, the markets are not a place for someone that never takes risk. But remember not taking a position is a position of...
Looking off your trades alone, starting from the MSFT trade as the most dated, most of your trades have been the "lottery ticket" type. The NTRI...
Here's your problem, you think you know something. Try going under the assumption that you don't know jack, and then place a bet. When you try to...
There really is only 2 choices unless your account is large to the size where you can negotiate swaps or forwards with a bank. And even so, you...
And I thought Sunny D was a great innovation. Wow. BTW, Zidane sure knows how to make an exit from th world stage eh.
If your doing the synthetic long as a buy and hold approach, be sure to go long term. Reconstructing month to month can be costly. Hedging the...
??? That is what the topic of the thread is.
Any suggestions on other products to hedge exchange rate risk? I'm going to my local bank to check out what they have for fowards.
I understand, but isn't the delta hedge off with the futures either? To hedge 40k USD with a 100k future gives me 60k worth of exchange rate...
For hedging exchange rate risk using futures, would one need a direct amount equivalent to the currency futures or would the futures option be...
Somebody take the opposite side of the OP's trades.
The firm will provide training and capital, not sure as far as mentoring goes. I agree daytrading options is suicidal. It's that most of what I...
Let me rephrase my question. Are the mechanics of daytrading completely different from those of options? Another way of looking at it is, if you...
I've been recently interested in going prop, and have located a prop firm in my city. I'll refrain from mentioning the name. As I have no...
After reading a bunch of posts on ET with a healthy dose of skepticism about how the floor is losing their edge, I have to ask to those who have...
Well, there goes my 2 cents.
Long Straddle. If you had the capital/knowledge of how to gamma scalp, trade the frontmonth to pay for the theta cost. Either case the straddle is...
Stops don't always work. And long vertical spreads with a payoff of 1:1 is a bad vertical spread. A better profile is the payoff should be at...
If you sell premium, sell it hedged. Take it up a notch and ratio wings to the long side to prevent statistical outliers.
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