So based on this we can expect the market to correct deep next week because the trade is closed? Just skeptical that a $600m loss in a fund can...
You're right. The commissions for the year was 44,734 on 316 option trades and 392 stock trades. Target this year would be 100 option trades and...
That is being overly optimistic. I am starting from "ground zero" in my trading now. Confidence is low, size very low - number of trades vastly...
Probably 50-50. The greatest damage has come from the doubling down - yes, i have doubled down also on losses on trades that were initiated 'with...
Given sufficient time those can be done as well. First time to define 'objectively' the type of relationship between one price move and another...
Of course a program could do all the above. You just have to spend more time developing the program, giving it rules, gathering the requisite raw...
No, they are viable without the doubling down. I have checked the data execution price on entry (say first entry), and execution price on exit...
The position sizing does not make sense when I shut down my system. When I operate according to the limits carefully defined and allowed by my...
Below are the trades for the period. You can see it was two days, and especially two trades, on 2016-11-08 and 2016-11-14, that explains the...
Awful month. Account well below 200K now (my new poverty-line). Will not post any further updates until I cross above that line.
Period Update for October (10/01/2016 - 11/05/2016) (5 weeks) Come-back month, up 82K (41%). Well not quite all of it, but a good chunk of the...
Thanks for the story. Seen that so much it is not funny - checking every where for an explanation of what is happening and never being able to...
He just said you are on a WILD GOOSE CHASE, with your limited resources, and you are still keen on the name of the web site?
Probably wont be too long before you can create your own strike and expiry. make your bid, and an offer will appear based on some market-maker's...
Is it possible to eat like an elephant and shit like a bird? Eat once and shit a thousand times?
How did he do in 2008? Averaged down and held till the market recovered? Did he start of with that holding timeframe in mind?
What I risk is often different from what I intend to risk - as happened on that Sep 9th day. So its hard to pin the problem on risk level. I...
Period Update for September (09/03/2016 - 10/01/2016) (4 weeks) Terrible month, down 86K (30%). After the big run-up last month, I could...
It was 4200% in 10 years. It is not 420% per year! Otherwise, Buffet stock performance was: 1000 invested in 1964 was worth 11 million in 2014...
What you are missing in your analysis is the effect of VOLATILITY on LEVERAGE - seems it is hard for you to understand. You are not getting a...
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