Oops, didn't realize. Yah, metals and grains. I very rarely trade ES.
Since I have end of day trading systems that I use futures for, perhaps its 20K on day trading futures. I don't have it split out. But my point...
The fact that you think its $4 round trip makes me wonder if you actual trade futures. I never said 25K is what I net a year. I used this year as...
You daytrade futures contracts and beat the S&P on a risk-adjusted basis for a multi-year horizon and with a good size notional (e.g. minimum 100K...
The cost of doing business in futures is so extreme, I would guess only a small group of elite people can consistently beat the S&P on a risk...
Happens fairly often if you trade futures frequently enough and have lots of accounts. You'll have a contract here or there. It never works out...
The game is much harder and edges are fewer and far between and much smaller. Maybe if you are a long-term trader your logic applies, but the...
Really? That's 25% annualized. Can you even name one hedge fund that has done this type of performance over the last 10 years? When you take away...
I don't understand. It's so deep ITM it's highly illiquid, but regardless, as it is worth $0, why would you be able to get out of it for something...
Start with a market value of 30x larger, trade it live for 2 years, give us stats, then let's have a conversation. Due to utility, if I take 10K...
You don't get something for nothing. That's interest my friend. If you held on to your december for a day or two longer, it would just implicitly...
Just roll it on Sunday or Monday. Or do it manual by buying the March selling the December in 2 transactions.
If you had $10M and someone walks up to you and says I have a system I think is good that I have been live with for 1 month do you want to take a...
OMG, this was hilarious!! Hahaha (no offense to Scat or anything, just though the joke was hilarious :D!!)
Instead of 0.1x natural gas futures they needed to go the other direction like 5x or 10x. Super natural gas, like SNG :). Trading regular NG is...
How long have you been live? What are your results, including some risk type metrics? If you have some history, you could put together some key...
Yah, I was referring to the implicit borrowing cost in call options, which theoretically would be risk tree rate and a bit less than what a broker...
Probably trivial, but borrowing would be cheaper with deep in the money options and you get an extraordinarily cheap put option with it (although...
I assume you are trading microcap stocks. Unless someone is an expert in penny stocks and has quantitative understanding of volume risk for these...
Mika, did your situation improve at all? Don't know all your positions so not sure what we should be rooting for. Hope you are doing OK, man....
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