How so? It's zero sum game: you own the GOOG shares in any case. You sell at $1,200 to satisfy options assignment obligations (becoming a CSP...
...Not exactly bad, but your returns will be significantly worse in a bear market. 80% of NAV seems conservative. Be careful with the rosy return...
So here is an example: 1) You own 1000 shares of google @$1,500 (long shares) = $1.5M paid. 2) You write 10 60-day $1,800 OTM calls for a premium...
You might be one of the rare ones who really buys and holds thru bear markets. Not for me to dissuade what works for you. The idea has merit....
How would the "creator" of an ETF benefit from "triggering" a stoploss that "wipes a bunch of accounts"? BMK
To be honest, i think those Proshares Bear ETF are scam. They are 50% for hedging, 50% to steal money from investors. Their fast time decay always...
Let's see, the 2000 crash lasted 2269 days after the S&P500 went down nearly 50%. The 2007 crash lasted 1702 days and the drawdown was 57%. All...
What bear market? How many times do I have to say it, with regard to the original point I responded to about an edge? The only edge is time....
Well you could be doing both actually. But that's not even the point, if you are long only how can you profit from bear markets?
No. You hold your position and roll. That's all there is to it. Plot it.
And during bear markets, you do what, hibernate in a cave, like this bear here? :D [IMG]
You may want to see if your SQL database supports Regular Expresssions, which would vastly simply your test to something like: company_name...
...'% short %' OR company_name LIKE '%futures%' OR company_name LIKE '% bear' OR company_name LIKE '% bull' OR company_name LIKE 'janus vel%' OR...
...and to sell high if your a bull and sell high and buy low if your a bear, but pigs get slaughtered so don't get greedy. It took me about 7...
...there is an established range and prior to that TR there was a bear trend. I am viewing that range as a sort of bear flag with a likely...
...learning things as I go and so these novice questions; please bear with me :) I need IVol data for a strategy that I am working on. Ideally,...
A bear raid of epic proportion. Where's Dodd? Where's Frank?
...The ES is generally gonna revert back and forth even in bull of bear channels or ranges. but averaging down is not everyones cup of tea so I...
...First purple dot: low probability to enter long, as 7 prior bars are bears 2nd purple dot: good entry 3rd purple dot: good entry. The trades...
...out of the bottom and does so with FT. Why? Because bull channels are bear flags with a likely eventual, successful BO, being south. Therefore,...
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