Finally some time for a new entry. Due to personal issues I have been away from the market on the 25th-26th. The market, of course, decided to...
nope. It's a custom indicator I made similar to Bollinger bands in the sense that its width depends on price stdev, but it is recalculated only...
Today basically been doing a whole lot of nothing. After so many days of going down, spot recovered a little bit, didn't sell more puts as it...
-Do you have an idea under which conditions your system A starts to degrade? It would make sense not having the protection in place all the time,...
ok, so it was kind of a busy weekend, didn't have time to update. On Friday I bought the 3.05 calls to neutralize neg delta, sold them (at a...
pre-opening thought year end in chinese market is well known for erratic moves, leveraged bets etc. Come to think about it, I don't exclude a...
Today I closed the Jan 2.9 short puts, as there was not much juice left in them. Now I have a lot of mar 2.85 long puts, a few 1:3 mar 2.85/3.1...
default settings are like that, I got used to it and after a while, it feels normal. Actually I could customize the colors, but I never...
Hi people, I would like to know what types of orders are you using for your trade, and which one works best in different market conditions. For...
This time I'm writing just before the open, yesterday was a bit busy. What to say, It's been a rough day. Killed the jan 3.05 long puts in the...
Today was the day when I got my face chewed. During the morning the beast continued edging higher but without much conviction. I actually had a...
So.. it feels good when you just flipped to delta negative on Friday and on Monday morning spot rally died down.. but while it's true that in the...
Oh, how I was wrong.. Agent orange decided to make his fabulous statement during the week, not over the weekend. The move was big, and It kind of...
Or a trombone. Or both.
It is my understanding that Dest trades these flies with equal risk on the upside/downside. In order to do so, the body distance from the...
Phew, finally home. This morning I bought a few more long dated puts when the etf briefly flirted with the 2.95 level, as they started to become...
today and tomorrow I'm travelling so no access to models/data. P&L up 0.18% due to the upward move almost touching 2.95. Not sure if it will...
as expected the day was flat, but I saw some momentum picking up during the last hours. Better safe than sorry, I closed out the short calls at...
It could be listed through one of those stock connect programs but I don't know, I'm with a chinese broker so I trade directly on the shanghai...
So far so good. the index dropped a tiny bit but overall my P&L is at +0.04% due to IV reduction and time decay. Didn't buy/sell anything today....
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