I have emailed TOS on this and they seem to say no, but hard to believe. Their Spread Hacker looks amazing, but it is just spreads. But I just...
thanks. Does it do optimization? The competition does. -Darp
I have been working on automated trading since 2001. It is very hard to do for real. History: 1. Started with Tradestation, it could not...
Spindr, Thanks. I have been plugging into Hoadley. In general like the high IV better, as loss much smaller. On FAZ can get $100 cost $800...
Interesting discussion. I have never done an IC even though been through TOS classes. I use IB but TOS software is amazing. Do they let...
Glad I bot back the extra options sold on front part of 50-40 on mkt bounce. What bot back under .60 os now .80. The trade is now up 90% over...
bot back the .64 front month ones sold Thursday at .58, after seeing how much it affected the downside potential. Decided it was not worth...
Thanks. Yes the 50-40 it has done very good, up about 40%. Today I sold 6 of the Sept for .63 (orig .38), but that is a quick trade planning to...
Was able to reconstruct the 25-25 Dec17-Sep30 SPY calendar as I did 1/2 of it today before the drop. Was able to get the exact same IV on the Sep...
Hi Premium, It was a ES 800 March-Oct that I had setup already in Hoadley that just happened to be within $25 of total cost so used. it. I...
Hi Premium, I just did a 85/850 pure calendar at same total risk $3375 ($25 more), its a lot smaller 25-25. At 1100 30 days before exp, it...
Atticus, Thanks for doing that. The concept of slightly ratioing a calendar really seems to be superior to a straight Calendar. That concept...
The setup in mkt looked good enough decided to put 2 trades on before it dropped to much, the mkt really dropped as was putting them on, maybe I...
Redeye, the IV spike greatly helps this trade, if it goes up from 42% now to 55% it makes $7,000 at 100 on Aug 30, way before expire, 7 times more...
Been plugging things into Hoadley and checking the results. If buy 50 SPY dec 18 75 Ps at 1.02 and sell Sept 40 75 Ps for .40, total cost is...
Thanks on butterfly, did read the whole thing.
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This is off shoot to Best way to profit in Crash with options post. BTW got some good tips from that, thanks. In going to implement it, see...
Atticus, The calendar it there not for gain although it will produce nice one at 1125, Its there to prevent a loss if mkt does not crash just...
Many good ideas, appreciate it. And need to plug them into Hoadley to check them out. In terms of what type of crash, think 800-900 by Sept...
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