Good for her , and you here with all the fancy charting , and bs , she is one sharp lady , live and learn.
Who cares what her returns were from 2002-2007? It generally takes at LEAST 5 years to become a good trader...so they were probably not very good returns, and rightly so.
I am actually surprised how open she is about the strategy. Watching the videos and with a little option experience, it can be recreated fairly well. You would think that one with a killer strategy and results would be more secretive.... Anyway, since somebody asked: Well, I do. It is rather irrelevant compared to her fund managment, but it would show giant ballsiness and improvement if after 5 years of nothing she suddenly not just upped the account 10 times, but right away did a 50% return.
haha but the diff is that the local 7-11 doesn't care if someone pays $1 and wins $100 million but she probably would care if she sold a bunch of outs for pennies that are now worth $10. interesting how she started in 2002 - i wonder what would have happened to her superior strategy of selling puts when the market reopened after 9-11.
She does claim to have escaped the financial crisis in 2008. Given that she starts with 50% allocation, does this seem reasonable?
Not without some very specific explaining. You can't have the S&P get cut in half and not blow up when you are picking up nickels in front of a steamroller...unless you have some rules that help you step away. Maybe that's the case, but I didn't hear that or see anyone elude to it here. Either Taleb or Neiderhoffer once said..."When the school marm starts dancing on the table, it's time to leave the bar".