Sometimes calendars can be a good stand-in during low volatility environments since they're positive Vega. That is, assuming you expect IV to rebound.
Tradingview can. Not sure if it works on the free tier though. You'll get the alert on your phone, in your email, and it has a setting that allows...
I vote it's a temporary pause lest the short vol trade once again get crowded and a new generation of naive traders are blown to kingdom come...
Very nice. Would be useful to be able to specify start and end date to compare different CEOs' performance during specific market regimes.
Tradingview has it in real time. [ATTACH]
That article is underselling what the VIX did. On both March 13th and March 14th cash VIX was in more extreme backwardation than at any point...
I have been aware of bitcoin since 2011 and actively trading, running bots, and scouring the internet for as many exchanges as I can find with...
Have VPN will "travel"
I'm really enjoying this thread, @johnarb. Thanks for taking the time to post your thoughts, trades, and charts. Very helpful.
You probably already realize this but for any newer traders it's important to remember, unlike most major indexes which are free float market cap...
I've tried a few languages to power my trading bots, namely Go, C, Java, and PHP, but finally settled on Python. It's easy to learn and runs on...
I had a mechanical keyboard once that caused intermittent booting problems so maybe try removing every piece of unnecessary hardware all the way...
UNG is currently holding January contracts while BOIL is holding March contracts.
Holy shit it's actually real. The naïveté of youth knows no bounds. Quoting Steve Carell's character in The Big Short, "They aren't confessing;...
I like XLU, XLP, and XLV. Utilities, healthcare, and consumer staples hold up best in bear markets. I've been swing trading call options on these...
Maybe Kraken. They give 5x on BTC and ETH. Not sure about the rest. Maybe 3x on those. You can short too.
Uprise was continuously rebalancing on the way down, reinvesting paper profits into the short, maintaining or even increasing the leverage. Akin...
Short term price movement mostly boils down to trader sentiment. When buyers become more motivated to buy at a higher price and sellers become...
The strategy seems pretty straight forward: invest in emerging technology that has the potential for high return and, essentially, make an index...
Echoing the sentiments above I'll happily pyramid (scale) a position to infinity as long as the underlying is trending in my direction but as soon...
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