Diago fly + 1 long call or put depends on direction, my favorite: least margin and commissions. Adjustment: sell bull put if went up short strike...
You can skip one long call and sell more bull put spreads.
@Samer: same concept, slight different legging on NDX. 3-5 days market exposure, enter thursday the week before the expiration week. Market makers...
You can reduce the number of legs by replacing the ratio by a diago, interesting in the put side as the diago likes IV surge that comes when...
Samer; your strategy is ratiospread+long put and call . You risk graph is good but you'll have problems with commissions and slippage even with...
If you make 1% a day on 50000 usd starting capital and you trade 600 day and reinvest to compound, =50000*(1,01)^600 ==> you get 19579169,85 usd...
I don't wait to get too close to short legs, I take profit when we are close to them, get out if we go to quickly in their direction. I took 450...
I don't adjust, if I come close to a dangerous area, I reset my position entirely. Better loose a profit opprtunity than get a loss.
1 month, I don't touch SPX, because of the slippage.
I tend to close before expiry if I'm too far from "the sweet spot", and hold more if I'm within the center of the "sweet spot", the area where my...
When I played Iron condors, when price moved too far from the center, I had to close at loss, if i hold position and hope the price retraces I...
I'm currently using this delta neutral strategy, but at small debit, close to 0. I don't use it on stocks because of possible gaps. Only NDX and...
I'm an IB user and I'm wondering if I can do that: I have : 6 X NDX Bear call spread: +2625 -2650 expiry December 2011 with 15000 usd margin...
Delevrage, play much smaller
Because they are lazy and they think that there is a holy grail method secretly kept by professional traders.
Hey dude you are in the wrong forum. I have the Msc in computer science expertise in C# (certifiied MCPD Winforms .NET 3.5) and I already...
You neither are one of them. And you are probably even a smaller trader than myself and even more likely less profitable than I am.
When you have highly sought after degree, you often get a well paid job and loose you "hunger" to open a business, take risks. Those who have not...
Don't repair, take your loss before the damage becomes unsustainable and you end up covering at the worst moment. Stop playing volatile stocks...
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