You really think you can make 50% return selling deep OTM puts? You think it is that easy? My point stands. You still don't understand it though
Why would you trade spreads and make 5% when you can make 7% by doing nothing I guess you misunderstood
The S&P average is 7% so unless you are beating that consistantly there is no point
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I think that is a good theory on what happened. I was thinking the same thing. In 2013 till oct 2014 the vix was very low and she may have...
I also had so many problems with CQG that I stopped using it after a month. I went back to IB with TWS and their draconian margin requirements
Yes, I have no idea why people think that way. If that was the way it really work people would just roll forever till they win. A roll is...
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This is getting off topic but I wanted to respond this is utter crap. There are many people who make a living trading options. If you would like...
The important part you are missing is that the market snapped back which is easy to backtest against. When the market is down 10% how do know it...
Agreed but you have to remember that her interviews were around 2013-2014 everything she was saying could have been bullsh*t. Tom sold ToS to TD...
MM's hedge risk completely different than retail traders because they have to and because they can. Remember what the role of a MM is, it is to...
I don't know about them but I have done my own backtesting various points on the curve using spreads and got similar results. I also did live...
I agree with you about selling naked. Even selling a very wide spread and allowing enough margin for the position to move against you is better...
And that number is only the ones the SEC is able to catch so you have to assume the numbers of scams are much larger. Karen is peanuts compared...
I will agree with you on that. Since she was lying to her clients about the scheming trades who knows when/if she told the truth on TT. Unless a...
I posted my thoughts on this on the Tastytrade forums and the moderators took it down.... i guess they can't handle it
We have no proof of 2008 that she actually traded through it, so we will leave that out of our discussion. I have no doubt she traded through...
After she incurred the 50% loss there was nothing she could have done. She would not have enough capital to roll out to the next month and create...
It has been stated numerous times why she failed. She sold way too many options on too high of leverage, hence losing 50% of her money on a very...
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