every major loss you read about in the paper that needs a bailout is a spread blowout google ltcm long term capital management or amaranth or vic...
i never said nonsensical but im asking juno what the biggest risk is ..what is the biggest risk in spread trading
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i will teach you if you want to learn. i will give you your fitst lesson for free! i am not a coach or a mentor by trade. i have never charged...
ignore the noise. ha. ignore how you will do great 8 months out of the year be lulled into the easiness of it all and then get crushed like ltcm...
you really dont know any real quant traders do you? babysit watch execution no they have algos that do that since the trades are lightening fast...
in futures spreads you always have 1 gain n 1 lose but in options you might get 1 side that screams higher n u will make more because the puts max...
you are dealing with a 2x3 so nq slippage is what..5 buck x4 roundtrip so 20 on the low end lets say 25. and ym is 5 x3 so 15 but lets say its not...
you should be making thousands of dollars in demo easily b4 thinking about live trading. i would stop now and think about how undisciplined you...
i like that your keeping at it but if you cant trade demo and be profitable scalping then you will never be profitable in the unforgiving live...
Imo you are better off trading micro contracts and trading outright holding all day..or getting long es all day and shorting nq all day at certain...
sorry to burst your bubble but trading these index spreads in DEMO and actually believing that is even close to replication when live is thinking...
Volpri, Seeing how much time and energy you put into your posts is extremely rare and I think you should be using your time and energy more...
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