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so the short straddle would have been profitable? generating 1400ish?

good to hear you are still crushing it. To be clear I was referring to long/short into the binary option. Great things ahead, good to see you.

nice, i'd be in but not sure about that firm.

nice, risk, what are you up to? Still trading into the barriers?

One thing we do is buy 2 for every 1 sold, for a credit. If you can invert vega, crash become much more manageable. sorry for the losses.

emails win again...

stops on spreads are always in place for our butterfly model using IB. It is liquid enough for what we are accomplishing.

on spx it will do well, and then take a huge hit once in a while. edge in random option selling is dropping, but still there. Iron Flies make much more sense. Rolling them with the trend, even more so. have an indicator which sells atm flies for each bar of a chart to test for drift. Used...

to turn their track record around.

It really is a valid question. And even more so for hedge funds. Most funds are not impressive. I've offered to help, even offered to buy their firms, to no avail.

welcome to high prob trading. spx and spy both have their evils...

i was long dotm spx puts for .20, sold them for 8.00, that's how...

it is likely having a rough 2015, but did well the prior 6 years...

nothing awkward about it, if you look successful.

the real question is how much you think you can charge.