My friend, you don't realize the tremendous amount of risk one takes investing/trading with ones own capital, especially it when it becomes a...
Actually @lawrence-lugar is right! Its nothing more than keeping score and collecting points. Just figure out a way to spend those points wisely....
Haha! Only if you'd only divested into weed and smut, would've made staring at the IB-TWS greek tables more psychedelic and tad bit arousing, ;)
I had an hour-long conversation with sle last night. It was enlightening talking to a professional about the outlook of the hedge fund industry....
Actually, I should've been more specific. I don't "martingale" futures. I keep adding insurance and hedges at attractive price points. They're...
@ironchef I realize you were responding to the OP, but I had a similar posting about collaboration after a chest-thumping equity curve. However,...
Hi @SimpleMeLike I didn't mean to *load up* on the edge or strategy, but to load-up on a mispricing. A good mispricing arbitrage is riskless. In...
That's how I started out, 2 yrs ago, simple spreads on SPX indices. You're chugging along with picking up daily theta at 1% to 2% per week! If...
Wow! I just started following this thread. 80% profit by selling 20 delta strangles and ratio'ed strangles on an index, eh? Seems like the short...
Actualy I agree whole-heartedly with @Jzwu2017 There is a social stigma attached with trading especially for some of us who come from science and...
I just wikipedia'ed Martingale. I don't know much about gambling, but I do know how to run a business and have done several businesses (since...
There is investments and then there is trading. Two different things. Investment is picking undervalued equities and wait for the pop and ride...
What's your metric? - Raw Account Growth - % of Winning Trades - High Sharpe, Sortino and Calmar Ratios of 5 and better? - Reduced Drawdowns - Or...
How do you take advantage of skew on multi-legs? I havn't seen too many traders use skew very effectively besides arbitrage. Some use it for...
Dear Friend, I realize the posting would solicit a bit of snark especially with the chest beating. In the most sincerest way, it wasn't meant to...
Last night, while chatting with a trader acquaintance of mine who is starting a option trader group, he approached me as "successful trader" to...
IB's TWS platform. They recently introduced the 3D plots. I don't claim any level of sophistication in using them. I usually put ratio spreads to...
In general, SPX skew charts have always shown the downsides having higher IV even in a raging bull market. Doesn't mean that the market is...
YESSSSS!!!!
This kind of intellectually curiosity will make you a successful trader. I learned from a guy a who trading 20B index arb desk at Deutche bank you...
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