Today TDA updated my balance in the P&L chart to a more reasonable value as of yesterday, possibly smoothing out the option pricing, or using an...
Yes, so I measure several things to identify realistic option values, mispricings/overpricing/underpricing, and where the option prices should be...
So my current end of the week balance is totally ridiculous and false, showing 10% profit just today, again due to market makers removing their...
BTW, this is what Cem's website says about vol related strategies, with supposedly sufficient alpha to run multiple vol funds/strategies:...
They're trying to build reputation, in an amateur way, planting seeds across millions of websites/forums/comments. Then they sell primitive SEO...
This question may be similar to why IV smile exists when it isn’t predicted by BSM, and actually it’s the source of everyone’s problems with...
Yup, so from this point of view it could be argued that in some cases MMs have unlimited risk to the upside, if GME suddenly opened 300% higher...
BTW, @ET180 , I edited my above reply to add minor assumptions about MMs, but this is actually an interesting topic/question on its own. What, in...
I'm hedged for variety of situations but am definitely not completely hedged and have large pockets of risk, while also still experimenting with...
I love butterflies and calendars, but after running millions of backtests and learning from losing, I made various adjustments to turn them into...
This is becoming ridiculous, today the market is crashing and I'm making a killing. Up 3.5%, mostly thanks to ADBE that dropped almost 9%. If you...
Just checked my Robinhood account where I do occasional option trades for experimenting and fun but not wanting to lose it either. And that one is...
All of the above. This actually can be a trap, because an anomaly that persists for hours may later extend to days or even weeks, expanding the IV.
Well, not sure if they are dumb money because dumb money is usually associated with retail traders. I may often be dealing with "smart money" like...
BTW, here is a list of undelyings for the options I currently hold, so you can see how it all adds up in small amounts. Losses are also shown,...
Just a quick update. I'm fine-tuning my approach, mainly to find more opportunities while lowering the risk. I'm now up over 20% since starting 3...
I'm not trading too much in this account and the balance grows slowly, therefore I'm not updating this journal too often. Here is just the current...
Just a quick weekly update, though not much has happened recently. I'm making some profitable trades but the account is fluctuating due to trading...
I rarely post my actual trades so I didn’t trade these specifically, but I do tinker/experiment with a lot of concepts to learn and figure out...
Currently I also enter option combos manually in TWS, and spend countless of hours doing this. Though I don't use generic combo, but select...
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