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universaller.... congrats! great job! Can I ask some questions? 1. How many trades do you put (in average) a week/month? 2. Do you use weeklys or monthlys or both? 2. What is the maximum level of your capital at risk when you put all the trades? 3. How many capital/margin do you allocate...

Very simple!! Good Job! Thx!

Universaller can you explain what kind of trades do you use to achieve this kind of returns? Please?

KISS is the best approach

Thank you dejatrader for your ideas and your data. I'm doing something similar selling puts on some stocks that I confortably take ownership If assignment occurs.

Do you still use this strategy for AAPL after the split?

The trade of the site in question is a debit trade!

+1

Leverage -in my point of view- is crucial, any startup has leverage in some way and we as traders are not be exempt from this, specially if the trading capital is small - like mine. In my own experience, my first year of trading my approach was very conservative and with ZERO usage of leverage...

Totally agree!

I'm only have 100K :(

You're absolute right the guy from the site syas that the success or failure of each trade is based on the price at which you can get open and close the transaction, ie, get a good price between the wide bid and ask (discount price) and then sell back to the market at a "fair" price.

After reading the comments and responses, I wonder..... To make a living of trading with average returns of 8%-10% annual (I think this is doable in a consistent manner with a lot of stress) you must have between 500K and above depending on your lifestlyle and where you live. I'm sometimes ask...

You are absolute right, thank you! I will check Augen's book!

Thank you for your replies, and of course I want to do more than 18% (I've done the math). What if doing covered calls (ATM or slightly OTM) on 5 or 6 solid stocks and using margin, my broker allows 4x of margin on stocks, why not to use that? if the interest on margin is very low? and if...