"I use the 15-point mark as a warning mark to re-assess the positions and determine whether I should adjust or not depending on my analysis of the...
Phil, I know your adjustment points are 15 away from the short strikes. Do you adjust during the trading day when the adjustment points have...
Phil, You consistently use short strike + 15 points as the adjustment point. Is the 15 points from experience? Have you looked at 20 points?
"In fact I went long ES futures at around 10:10 with the SPX at 1203.50" -- Nicely done! By the way, last night was an example of ES having...
Phil, Looks like we might have to adjust the 1165/1175 put spread tomorrow (assuming you still have your position).
This is being covered here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54380
Goldtrade, you have a lovely wife :-)
psytrade, Did you mistype 15 instead of 1.5? I've found that 1 ATR(10) is around 2.5% for most of the stocks I trade. I use 2.5 ATR for the...
Sam, Your example is very helpful. Using hypothetical round numbers, say the account size is $100,000 and fully allocated to trading ES, bet...
If my equity position exits at its initial stop, I lose 1% of my account. If my futures position exits at its initial stop, I also lose 1% of my...
MTE, The part that is not clear is the margining with futures contracts.... doesn't it affect position sizing?
I'm trying to get a better understanding of risk management and position sizing when trading futures contracts for position traders, not...
I'm trying to get a better understanding of risk management and position sizing when trading futures contracts -- for YM and ES -- for position...
Do either of them do backtesting?
I believe OptionStar downloads options chains for stocks/indexes from multiple exchanges -- free, 20-minute delay. OptionStar also downloads...
ktm, "As to your other question, yes I do everything in ES/SP - the bodies and hedges and everything else." OK, I get it, you use SP/ES...
OptionsWizard, Yes, thanks for clarifying margin vs. tax treatment: ----------MARGIN------TAX TREATMENT ES--------SPAN--------Section...
ktm, "I only trade commodity regulated, SPAN based section 1256 products. SPX and the like are reg-t and considered securities. Section 1256...
ktm, This is very clever, particularly the part about collecting the condor premium PLUS potentially collecting a full/partial piece of the $10...
Mike -- read Tharp (5), LeBeau (>10), Chande (4), Stridsman (>10), Elder (2). Numbers in parens are the approximate numbers of...
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