Kudos to MMs

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by nitro, Oct 23, 2008.

  1. nitro

    nitro

    I either get stopped out or I don't. The number is 1290.
     
    #3231     Jul 29, 2011
  2. Maverick74

    Maverick74

    You have a stop on options or a mental stop?
     
    #3232     Jul 29, 2011
  3. nitro

    nitro

    Mental.
     
    #3233     Jul 29, 2011
  4. When was the last time the FV was below the market price? Seems to me your model has a permanent long bias.
     
    #3234     Jul 29, 2011
  5. nitro

    nitro

    It has been a very long time, probably closing in on six months I would have to check.

    I completely agree with its assessment that the market is undervalued by close to 100 points. The market sell-off in the last five days or so is a one off event based on circumstances never seen and inconceivable to most people until just a few days ago. One way to think about it is to ask where SPX would be if the debt celing was raised without the political infighting. I am completely comfortable with at least 1372.

    I could adjoin ad-hoc rules to the system to handle this [these] situation, but that is the wrong way to go about it imo. The question is one of money management: should I have added, or should I have overridden the system and taken profits in light of a possible rare exogenous event? That is a question of discipline, and imo I did the right thing by adding. There is no way to code for irrationality except by ad-hoc rules that exist more on the human level than at the level of computer code.

    It would be great if I had a program that went and read newspapers and assessed quantitatively the odds of exogenous events and somehow priced that in, but that is not happening any time soon. I have heard of these sorts of programs, but I suspect they are relatively sophisticated AI programs...

    Another possibility is to add some sort of TA module and weight that accordingly, but I suspect that this addition would at best break even in the times it kept me out of the market correctly, and the times it didn't incorrectly.
     
    #3235     Jul 29, 2011
  6. Maverick74

    Maverick74

    Did you stop out?
     
    #3236     Jul 29, 2011
  7. nitro

    nitro

    At 1287.
     
    #3237     Jul 29, 2011
  8. nitro

    nitro

    Looking to go long at 1272, then 1260 ish then 1242. Also long again on a cross from below at 1300.

    This time will be using 75 delta options
     
    #3238     Jul 29, 2011
  9. Maverick74

    Maverick74

    I congratulate you on your discipline. That will keep you in the game. Good job.
     
    #3239     Jul 29, 2011
  10. you should have been a politician
     
    #3240     Jul 29, 2011