Look...a paper trading account does not send orders to a live market so you are not acting as a market maker with a paper trading account, you are getting fake fills because it is a paper trading account. If you do not realize this is bullshit or you think it is a real example of you can make those trades in the actual market with real money then the hospital where you reside needs to take away your internet privileges.
You may not "need" it, but your long-term prospects would be considerably more favourable if you took notice of it, rather than dismissing it. This is simply factual.
I DON'T NEED YOUR ADVICE! Got it? Just piss off and don't participate in dicussions of mine! Bye! I don't get it! Why don't these all-better-knowing types just start their own journal instead of meddling in other people's journals and strategies?... I often wrote here that I don't need any advice, because I want to do it my way!
Just out of curiosity, but what is the point of this journal? Unless you are a total newbie on the interwebs and on message boards, you should have known the journal will invite criticism, good or bad. You said you have a partner, so you have someone to discuss the strategy with, so you didn't need to post for discussion or adoration. But you decided to post so why are you crying when people point out the obvious? If you didn't want participation you should have started a blog with no replies, but if you journal on ET, you will get the straight dope, aka facts. I wish you good luck, but if it was this easy to make 30% month after month, others would be doing it too, yet you don't hear about dozens of traders making 300+% annually. So something has to be up, and the real question is, is it the fills or just the strategy got lucky (or both)??? Once you start with real money you will get your answer, and please don't forget about us and post about it. Just for the record, I am also selling options on stocks and when I came up with my strategy I posted about it on a different forum inviting criticism because it just looked too good to be true. The expected returns are much less than yours, but still pretty good, and I thought I must be missing something, thus I asked for input from others. But I don't really see your point for posting, thus my question...
Pekelo, it's just trading my way, nothing more. I don't need any silly, arrogant, destructive and insulting comments here as I don't have the time to reply to every idiotic and unrespectful comments. I already stated that I don't need any advice, and people shall discuss their off-topic crap somewhere else, not here in this trading journal.
I've an edge, and by this I'm testing it out. So far it works, and I'm hopefully it will work forever... (I will even get a further booster once I've fully automated this...) In previous postings I already had written that one has to find the right options and strikes for this to work... And: I've specialised myself on weeklys... All things that matter for this... I have in my postings given IMO some useful tips and hints to the readers...
What number am I supposed to look at on the above to see your progress? The net liquidation value? Or total cash? What did you start with, 1,000,000?