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  1. IB - do I pay for continuously holding FX trade over weeks,months?

    True, but then I am exposed to currency risk. I will eventually change it back to EUR and I can lose money if EUR is higher.. I found that most...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 27, 2016 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. who is dumb enough to sell weekly calls on SPX/ES

    So what. If the price rises you make money on the underlaying... You cannot loose money if the prices rises.. The risk is on the downside with CC...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 26, 2016 in forum: Options

  3. IB - do I pay for continuously holding FX trade over weeks,months?

    Hi. I am not able to figure this out. I have IB account funded with EUR because I am from Europe. I am trading only US stuff via IB. So for...
    Thread by: Tomaz26, Aug 26, 2016, 25 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers

  4. I want maximum downside protection with some upside is collar the way to go?

    This is also an option ;)! But yeah, I fear 2008 looming with brexit, china and other shit, that is why I would like to have some upside potential...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Jul 3, 2016 in forum: Options

  5. I want maximum downside protection with some upside is collar the way to go?

    My trading capital is not big, about 100.000 EUR. Like I said I would like to double that in max 10 years. TradeCat I like your idea. I saw some...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Jul 3, 2016 in forum: Options

  6. I want maximum downside protection with some upside is collar the way to go?

    Hello. I am very risk averse and I need to protect my capital, but on the other hand I need to double it in next 10 years so I can retire at 45....
    Thread by: Tomaz26, Jul 3, 2016, 14 replies, in forum: Options

  7. Shooud you let the profits run OR take smaller profits and increase position size?

    Just the thing I was looking for, thanks. I will also see through trial and error and last 100 trades if I am leaving too much on the table or if...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Jul 11, 2015 in forum: Trading

  8. Shooud you let the profits run OR take smaller profits and increase position size?

    Some good advice, thanks to all. It is hard sometimes, because you have some big trending days when price breaks up and just runs. If you take...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Jul 8, 2015 in forum: Trading

  9. Shooud you let the profits run OR take smaller profits and increase position size?

    Hello, say for example that you trade intra-day break-outs of range. How do you determine, when to take profits? How do you choose your target?...
    Thread by: Tomaz26, Jul 8, 2015, 28 replies, in forum: Trading

  10. Using options for hedging purposes

    Trying to say something dickhead?
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 30, 2011 in forum: Options

  11. Using options for hedging purposes

    I am doing quite fine,believe me. I have my degree and a lot of money for my age to invest so nothing to worry about... The only one missing a...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 30, 2011 in forum: Options

  12. Using options for hedging purposes

    Yes, my mistake, I wrote declining years as a part of this 99-2002 subperiod, because I thought everyone allready knows that Nasdaq did not just...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 30, 2011 in forum: Options

  13. Using options for hedging purposes

    You are correct, this is the time when QQQ first rallied 100 % and then collapsed 81 % so in this time you made 23 %, which if I understand could...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 30, 2011 in forum: Options

  14. Using options for hedging purposes

    This is not true. Please see the picture. They picked march 1999 because this is the first time options on QQQ were available. They`ve chosen...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 30, 2011 in forum: Options

  15. Using options for hedging purposes

    Well you are correct, they also test the active collar strategy with much better returns, but the returns of 23 % are from the passive strategy....
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 30, 2011 in forum: Options

  16. Using options for hedging purposes

    There there. Now that you say it this way, I am convinced that this research paper is just a load of crap. Can`t argue with your strong arguments...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 30, 2011 in forum: Options

  17. Using options for hedging purposes

    Hmm, could be but I really doubt they would publish the paper without backtest or some kind of proof to back it up. They certainly could not came...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 30, 2011 in forum: Options

  18. Using options for hedging purposes

    thanks for all for great content. Here is the paper I mentioned: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1507991 It is...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 30, 2011 in forum: Options

  19. Using options for hedging purposes

    Thanks for suggestions. I found a very good paper testing different collars for QQQ from 1999 to 2010 with very good results. This strategy of...
    Post by: Tomaz26, Aug 29, 2011 in forum: Options

  20. Using options for hedging purposes

    Hello, I want to start using options to hedge my mostly stock portfolio positions. Is it a good way or too expensive? I know now that...
    Thread by: Tomaz26, Aug 28, 2011, 35 replies, in forum: Options
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