Well, when you trade es you are already leveraged. It would be pretty expensive to buy protection using puts.
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There is always a tradeoff. Further expiration = more expensive but also protects for more time. OTM = cheaper but provides less protection....
I see those things almost every day, and I'm not surprised anymore. Here is another example: The market expected ORCL to report earnings on a...
Absolutely. The industry earned its bad reputation. But vast majority doesn't mean everyone, and this is the point I was trying to make. People...
It is easy to see who is a real trader and who is not. When someone is sharing hos trades in real time, with screenshots, as I do, any reasonable...
I spent $5k few years ago on options trading mentoring. It was among the best investments I have ever made. Are there scammers in the trading...
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Wrong again. Maybe you should spend few minutes on our website before making fool of yourself over and over again. From the performance page:...
You have serious math problem. No it's not 20k after 6 years. The account value is getting reset to 10k every year. It is 18k in Sep.2017, based...
Yes. You said you place a trade based on what your friend does, and asked for advice how to manage it. "Would anyone in this space close early...
I'm not sharing trades on public forums. You still did not tell us why your approach of holding till expiration is better than mine of closing...
Good luck with the "big boy account".
You are barking on the wrong tree. You might consider looking on our 6 years performance and/or My 2015 Personal Account Return: 80.2% But I...
In my 15 years in the financial markets, I learned few things. But I definitely don't pretend to know everything. I'm still learning something new...
It is not a shame to be down 90%. Many great traders experienced those kinds of losses. What matters is how you recover. The market owes you...
Profits speak for themselves.. till they don't. If you want to continue trading options and ignore the greeks by calling it bs, by all means, do...
Traders who ignore negative gamma will eventually go broke. Sure, the spreads will expire worthless most of the time, maybe for weeks or months....
The problem is that the market doesn't know and doesn't care that you lost 90%. It doesn't care that you need to make 900%. And once you trade...
I think it's a good estimate, at least as an approximate number. The biggest issue with this strategy is its unpredictability. Even if buying...
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