I brought closing orders in during the gyrations yesterday, and the other Calendar spread (#264) closed in profit. Trade date: 10 October 2022...
Use the RANK function to number your peaks and troughs, then use the date as the operator. If date of MAX > date of MAX-1, then Peaks are rising...
The formula will be straightforward. As you have seen, defining it is the difficult bit! For ease of auditing / unpicking / modifying later,...
The Nasdaq Calendar put (#264) closed today at a good profit. RUT has been moving around so not sure how that one will go. Trade date: 10...
Although the thread title is Swing Trading, I use different approaches for my swing trades and the Calendars and Flies that I write about on here...
Opened a couple of Calendars on Nasdaq and Russell 2000. Trade date: 10 October 2022 Security: RUT Price at opening: 1695.9 Direction: Put Expiry...
I use Kelly for position sizing @qlai , reduced for the number of securities that I'm trading. Also, my account balance is spread across other...
How sweet! ^^^^ Now that everybody has everybody else on ignore, we'll have to cope without E-I's valued contributions and get back to the...
Response to E-I's comment in #248 "but it seems you didn't like my reply and have blocked me" If you look back through my thread you will see...
Thanks @taowave I can't see/reply to E-I but responses would be: q. Is it really that easy to make such big profits with such 3 or 4 legged...
SPX Fly closed the day after it was opened, in profit. Trade date: 04 October 2022 Security: SPX Price at opening: 3,777.1 Implied Vol 30.1%...
Opened a Put Fly on S&P500 yesterday. Trade date: 04 October 2022 Security: SPX Price at opening: 3,777.1 Implied Vol 30.1% Direction: Put Expiry...
Opened another Russell 2000 Calendar. Trade date: 03 October 2022 Security: RUT Price at opening: 1701.2 Direction: Put Expiry date (short side):...
Was away for the weekend and didn't add this as it filled after I left my desk, and has already closed today in profit. Trade date: 30 September...
Thanks for the example @cesfx A couple of thoughts: after the 100-point rise, my temptation would also be to take the almost`100% profit...
Thanks @cesfx Q: I read that you also trade longer term verticals. Do you ever convert them into riskless fly's? A: I do, and I haven't....
AMZN fly and SPX Calendar both closed yesterday at a profit. A good week :D Trade date: 27 September 2022 Security: AMZN Price at opening: 116.1...
Closing orders for The Russell 2000 Calendar filled and I'm expecting to close the others later today or tomorrow. Trade date: 26 September 2022...
Back from the beach and pleased to see that my attempts to hedge a long portfolio held up well. In addition, popped a couple of calendars on...
Thanks @Adam777 I'm swing trading using vertical spreads with longer durations than the trades that have ended up on this journal, then using...
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