Lets assume the following scenario exists every week. Where you can construct a trade with the following characteristics for SPY. Do you believe...
My portfolio strategy consists of several hedges which when combined "in theory" should produce the following returns: 1. Sideways market...
On the weekends, I like to pick which companies I plan to buy puts/calls for the upcoming week. Part of this analysis, I need to easily be able to...
What are some of the most popular/heavily traded options around earnings season? I know stocks like AAPL,NFLX,CMG,GOOG are popular with heavy...
Does anyone know of a website or screener which lists only upcoming earnings announcements where the underlining has very liquid options?
Lets assume the stock market is Random. In that scenario, shouldn't the below strategy make you the "house" and over time be profitable? With DIA...
Would you trade a position that had the following characteristics at expiry in 2 weeks: 1. Unchanged +$36 2. -10% from current price -$97 (happens...
Lets say stock X is trading at $206.50 If you buy 100 shares and buy 2 ATM puts you have a synthetic straddle. However, what if instead of...
I have noticed a discrepancy that I am unsure how to explain. I believe it may be telling me something, but I am unsure what exactly. Look at the...
Is there a site where you can download/scrap news releases going back several years for a particular stock? Is there a service you can...
The purpose of this journal will be to track my Diagonal Ratio Backspread trades. While I have been trading for nearly 10 years, I have done very...
I have sold 1 Mar28 87.5 call for .43 I have bought 2 Apr20 90 calls for .54 each The position was entered for a debit of $.65 Stock currently...
<b>Intro</b> The point of this journal will be to share my real money *fully* automated trading results throughout the process of iterative...
Has anyone successfully ran an automated strategy on a "small" instance of EC2? This box will only be used for executing the strategy. I am trying...
I am currently using Interactive Brokers with NinjaTrader, however on Forex trades the minimum commission is $2.5. Are there any Forex brokers...
You may have read my threads in the past dealing with automated intra-day trading. One thing I have come to realize, the "easy" money is in the...
I am testing an intraday strategy that performs the best if all I set is a stop loss, then allow the strategy to only exit on market close (or...
I have struggled for years with developing profitable strategies. Many times I have found what I thought was the "holy grail" only to crash back...
Over the years, I have been asked to be more open about my strategies. In this thread I will be detailing a new strategy I am building from...
If you work for a privately held company, and through that you know important details about a competitor and "lack" of a competitive advantage...
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