Joe, I don't really do TA or charting. Do they have accurate historical options data available? If so can I get it during their free trial?
Wish I had seen your earlier posts. That means thinkBack itself is pretty useless since it is based on the bad data. Edit: They DO fill in...
I've been downloading historical options data from TOS thinkBack. First of all it's tedious, you have to download one day at a time. Then, when...
Update on the Modified Martingale. Just ran my test on 2011 YTD. A single unit would be down .62 points but the MM is actually up 1.02. If I...
Wait for the margin call?
I added the Modified Martingale to the strategy I am testing.This is the one that only goes to a max of two units after two losses, and back to...
(In case anyone is still reading this thread.) I fracked up on checking the weeklys (who knew there was a company named SPX Corp and you need a...
So are you saying he faked his SPX spread results? I got his spreadsheet but I haven't gone back to check to results.
I don't doubt your stats and you have the results to back them up. I was just checking to see if there might be the same "edge' in trading...
It was 1985 to present. I went back and just used 2001 to present and it was still about 50/50 using close-to-close (289 up/240 down, 3 no...
Just for curiosity I downloaded the weekly data from Yahoo on SPX starting in 1985. It is just about 50/50 up weeks/down weeks. It's not exactly...
So I went into thinkBack to test this out. I just happened to pick last July. The first week I tried the SPX was at 1027 on July 1 so I went out...
How about skewing the strikes instead of going equidistant plus and minus?
Would that rhyme with Larry's Lips or Perry's Pips or something? If so he has discovered weeklys and doing basically the same thing claims he...
So how is the client performing on these?
One of the strategies usually mentioned with monthly diagonals or calendars is that you can buy a few months out and roll the shorts several times...
Hasn't that always been the reasoning behind calendars, diagonals, double diags, etc? With weeklys you just get faster theta. As the Greek...
AFAIK most week there won't be anything expiring two weeks out. You have to go with the next monthly expiration, or quarterly if it's closer. This...
They should at least get the terminology right. Bandwidth is a data rate. They are imposing a usage cap.
I went into TOS thinkBack and ran "weekly" short strangles for 2008 on IWM. I just picked whatever was first OTM (whatever TOS selected as ATM). I...
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