Recent content by InTheMaking

I used to do bear call spreads when I first traded options and used to work pre-Trump, post-first-rate increase. Unless we get a true confirmation of a bear or neutral market, these things are dangerous in up markets. My personal observation of a slingshot move, can be painful. However, it's...

@just21 Members on this forum are a highly opinionated bunch. Since nobody knows the sizes of each others trading accounts, one can claim anything under the veil the anonymity. They could be a 100M fund manager or a just peddling a job, wannabe traders in their mom's basement. (The latter being...

There maybe other methods to "ease" into a long position with AMZN calls without paying so much and reduced theta loss. Have you explored ratio backspreads or a call calendar? Last quarter a mix of backspreads and closing the short calls during minor pullbacks worked well.

I've seen that thread. I'd been selling 2 to 4-week straddles on TSLA hedged with longer dated calendars. Was doing this most of last quarter. It was fetching a premium of 15 to 20, more than my expectations of a move. Stopped doing it now. VIX is getting uneasy. I still have my calendars...

I had a position on INTC last quarter through a covered put. Short Intel stock and financing by short puts. I believe there are better ways to hold a short position. My broker's margin calculations were not attractive for a covered put strategy. It makes more sense to do this when we have...

We've been in discussions with some family offices and it appears that the long/short equity models is waning in favorability due to healthy economy / raging bull market and the challenge of identifying good shorts. What's been more popular, at least from my discussions is a blended model of...

Through Options and Stat-Arb Pair trading techniques. I get it! Einhorn went all short on AMZN! He had an expression that it was overbought and shorted it. So, the question is how did he hedge against that position? Did he construct Call calendar positions for the case AMZN blows to the upside...

I don't get it! Shorting is supposed to be a hedge. And like any insurance policy, hedging is expensive. Why do these "Gods of Trading" use shorting and hedging as a core position? Why not stay neutral and generate some alpha, even if it doesn't beat the S&P???

This has been a good thread! Going Long on CL and minus the cost of hedges and commissions and everything has generated a 6-figure profit! @Buy1Sell2 , lemme know where to send the 10% management fee to, ;)

I'm trying to become a better chartist and started trading NG and CL. Been long on Crude since September. Have you charted a similar steep Up-channel shown in green below? And less steep up-Channel in purple? The red line is a bearish resistance line of the previous tops. Basically I see 3...

My personal returns has been - 40 to 45% annual returns in RE for last 5 years - 85% annual returns in Trading for last 2 years I think I'll keep doing both and keep adding additional streams of income over the years, because I need things to do after 4pm EST and while tenants are not...

If you really really really wanted to get exposure on bitcoin. Do a bit of Stat-Arb pairs trading on it. Go long on one of the more popular forks that you feel bullish about, ripple and/or Litecoin. Then go short on BTC. This way you can stay moderately delta neutral and make money scalping on...

You see that building? I bought that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it 2 years later, made an 800,000 dollar profit. It was better than sex. At the time, I thought that was all the money in the world; now it's a day's pay. -- Gordon Gekko (Wall Street, 1997) You see...

What's the definition of a real trader? - Number of trades per month? - Account Size? - Account Growth? - A threshold for the Ratios - Sharpe / Calmar / Sortino? - Comissions Spent? - Number of Underlyings? - Types of Underlying? Option / Futures / Equities / Forex / Crypto (Ugh) - Number of...

PM me I've got a series of spread builders set up on IB butterfly builder, NDX/SPX insurance builder, Slightly Bullish BackSpread, Bearish Backspread etc. set up. The short call on a strangle is a little challenging for me to adjust. Which is why I do straddles instead. Lot more premium and...