they actually recommend to exit when the loss goes beyond 2X max credit
make a newsletter revealing every week 1 or 2 shitcoins that will go bust and a link to your website, where you reveal to paid subscribers ALL the...
my biggest loss ever was while I was still following the tasty trade method.. sell strangles at 30Delta OTM, roll up one strike, roll out the...
Hey Chef, So far on ET the general consensus seems to be that for equities it is sticky strike. On Sinclair's book he says that actually it's a...
thanks a lot guys, you gave me a lot of things to think about. To be more precise regarding my situation: my underlying is an index ETF. My...
Cool! My question became blog material!
@jamesbp thanks for the inputs.. regarding the first two suggestions, the name gatheral sends shivers down my spine (I'm no phd!), and Peter...
The problem with options is that you need to have also an opinion about the volatility and the timing of the move, not simply about the direction....
Hi all, recently I have been bumping my head on the vol surface (pun intended). My conundrum is: I only have data for options expiring in 1M,...
maybe a bit off topic but.. you should keep a journal where every day you write your thoughts about the market and some what/if analysis of likely...
man, I would advise you to stay as far as possible from the china futures space. thats were all the worst abuses/insider trading cases happen....
I didnt see this post on time to cast a vote.. that would have been another "no!". I joined this forum only very recently but it didnt take long...
@bone I'm not discussing the merits of the dispute, in fact the situation in China has been like a festering wound for so many years, sooner or...
I disagree on the fact that Xi is tied by the will of other party officials. The man is the equivalent of the ancient emperor, he could force the...
Cool stuff man!
@tommcginnis yep in the back of my mind I also suspected it was just another "glorified moving average", however there is one thing I want to...
Recently I started reading "volatility trading" by Euan Sinclair. On the chapter about forecasting RV he talks about the GARCH model, but he kind...
would be interesting to backtest the likelihood of a thread derailing on ET...
as expected.. no free lunch whatsoever. now I'm happy that I just bought 1 lot... Anyways.. I will let this thing run until the next shocking...
Thanks.. ok now that you brought in the topic of interest rates I'm starting to think about it.. basically the risk profile of put vs call...
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