The fed announcement was a big nothing burger. Typically I ignore all news/noise because it correlates with the EW. I was allowing for a move, thus the wider OTM strikes, but usually it will gap up or down AH not intraday. Anyway, just cutting my teeth on 0DTEs so need to make some adjustments to reduce risk in the future. Lesson learned trying to pull a trade on my phone while running errands.
Can you give some numbers (IV or HV, spots etc.) to verify the "almost 3SD" ? Do you mean 3SD of the underlying price? At what time did this happen? Is the following by Ivolatility accurate with your data?
Yes, you better spread your position across 10 different accounts and break it down into small orders. All the professionals do this. Otherwise they’ll know you’re a retail with low informational / technical edge and they’ll sucker you. Just kidding
And put some opposite trades too. also trade some random options. to trade a 100 lot IC, I typically end up trading 3-4000 options to hide the real position.
%% MOST everyone in stocks wants a profit-@ least in their mind. Hard to believe anyone would confuse a Fed day/policy with news noise?? Strange IWM chart also. Plenty of good tech uptrends; but BAC is still down trending below 200day moving average . barchart.com opinion has a IWM [objective]40% buy, so could be a 60% sell also. Looks like Max got the range right; hitting stops in side the range, that would expected. IWM must not have AI[machine learning], ranging in that range. DOW theory says nobody is bigger than the market, so any size or big size [IWM]would not be auto Fed fight winner. MOST common would be hitting stops in a range; but IWM usually has larger 52 average week range than that, all data. Price kerplunk [selling]would be logical also\IWM= underperformer YTD. Hope this helps, it helps me.
They do, but probably not in this case. The chart incorporated all the information available, then the information changed. Your analysis was weak. Zero due diligence. Change your process or expect more of this in the future.
Moot point anyway because making profits selling options is not sustainable. Either way, the idea that this manipulation exists is garbage and should really be illegal. It would be illegal if we were doing it to them...they called in Congress just because retail did it to them once with GameStop. Bunch of cry babies. My solution would be to open the market up 24/7 and cap share ownership at .05% of the float by any one entity. No more after market games.