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June 10th, 2020, 11:39 PM
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My Brief Summary and Thoughts on this Thread: ...
My Brief Summary and Thoughts on this Thread:
I've been following this thread for many years and have added a few comments here and there over the years. What stands out to me is that selling...
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February 21st, 2018, 01:50 AM
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Trading commodities can be quite different than...
Trading commodities can be quite different than equities. You might want to take a look at Carley Garner's website (decarley trading) as she has a lot of good resources there. One of the main...
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February 15th, 2018, 11:24 PM
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I would never risk 20% max loss for the entire...
I would never risk 20% max loss for the entire account on just one position. The 5% figure you quoted seems more reasonable but is still a bit aggressive. This week I had on 4 total positions (ES,...
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February 15th, 2018, 12:53 AM
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Narnar, I think you have the correct idea...
Narnar, I think you have the correct idea regarding the reason Ron and others have now proposed selling ratio spreads instead of naked options. You are trying to protect yourself against the...
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September 8th, 2016, 12:51 AM
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I agree that it would be a good idea to set up...
I agree that it would be a good idea to set up alerts with your broker based on the price of your sold option breaching a certain threshold. I've now been doing this whenever I sell options and they...
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September 8th, 2016, 12:39 AM
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The key thing is you don't know for sure the...
The key thing is you don't know for sure the market will go up? It could work out OK assuming you are in a bull market and you don't over leverage yourself. However, this is essentially just like...
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September 7th, 2016, 12:40 AM
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So am I understanding the returns for the 2015...
So am I understanding the returns for the 2015 year correctly? They were at least 35% ROI even with the drawdown that occurred in August 2015? During these years there has been several spikes in...
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August 26th, 2016, 12:57 AM
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I was thinking of using a "mental stop loss" and...
I was thinking of using a "mental stop loss" and exiting once it was hit on a closing basis, so the actual loss could be greater than 20%. The flash crash would not have been an issue based on the...
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August 23rd, 2016, 09:06 PM
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Thanks for the response! I understand that your...
Thanks for the response! I understand that your results are using the newer 2 Long + 1 Short strategy, but I was referring to Ron's original strategy of selling naked ES options with a low delta but...
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August 23rd, 2016, 01:36 AM
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I have been thinking about the fact that the...
I have been thinking about the fact that the original strategy using naked shorts with IMx3 only had 1 losing trade (49/50 positive) over a 4-year period. The premise of this strategy seemed to be...
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July 13th, 2016, 01:47 AM
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rsm005 I think you had an error in the...
rsm005 I think you had an error in the calculation of your premium doubling. If your original balance was 100K and the premium taken in was 5K then the new net liq value would be 95K. The premium...
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