I am thinking of getting a painting of a black swan and hang it in the living room. Next to the Tulipmania of course
Peter Lynch was an amazing money manager, probably better than anyone. to think that there were investors not happy with that kind of a return is...
JSOP, I keep saying the same thing, I am completely confident and I know I will be back.
on what odds offered? In the event of a precipitous drop, anything over 7% would have been catastrophic with no credit elsewhere
TD Ameritrade does not give you all the credit when you sell a naked put or call so this makes the margin requirement go up a bit, they also use a...
Yes it’s real. I’m not going to kill my self. I’m going to make money and come back. If anyone wants screenshots of my tdameritrade I’m happy to...
Kim these are excellent articles. and I see that you wrote them, Thanks for sharing them. Also just so you know, I was correct on my NG trading...
Over leveraged, GREED, and of course downright stupid. 100K account. sold 24K (roughly) on Feb 5th without buying any protection puts closer to...
Thank you very much for this advice and this post
Elite, this is definitely a lot safer, when I come back (and I will come back) I will definitely be looking at this strategy. As I type this I...
Thanks Kim for your insight. I was normally selling about 24 and buying about 12k in a back ratio. This wasn’t the case because I neglected to...
you are correct, I should have only been selling 5% to 7% of my total account. with a 50% put purchase closer to the money as well for safety....
Thank you. I will
indeed this is very true, I have created my own identity with my trading, I was possessed by it. When i was selling calls on NG (natural gas)...
Thank you for your kind and not so kind words. I have a job thank you, I am an entrepreneur of ten plus years. I have also invested in the 10...
I understand the tail risk puts but this very unlucky Thank you for this post.
This is exactly what I usually do, and of course did not do. I had the terminology mixed up with bull spread, but its back ratio. as TD...
You are correct, a bull spread is straight even, I am referring to back ratios for example: Sell 100 ES 1800's @ 1.00 Buy 10 ES 2300's @ 25.00...
I was in the 1800 ESH8 its now 20 days out, it went from 1.00 and change to 3 or 4.00 instantly, I think on this particular contract it moved...
This account was with TD Ameritrade, I don't like IB because they have insane margins requirements
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