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Speaking of masochistic morons - I just knew that would bring you out of whatever hole you've been hiding in. You do tend to run in packs, don't you?

Sometimes, it can be. In this volatile, spiky environment - see @cesfx's experience - the results are likely to be quite a bit worse than usual (which is why I haven't done it in a year or more.) There's a lot of this kind of thing that goes on among traders, and I see it here. Some strategy...

Nah, just basic troubleshooting ability. For your fleshlight, it's most likely the batteries. For your Kleenex box and Vaseline, it's the empty state that should be a clue. Indulge me if you will... what is it about unarmed morons who just can't resist trying to enter a battle of wits? Is it...

Hah, his system ain't shit. Watch this: #!/usr/bin/perl -w chomp(my @spx = `tac spx.csv`); # SPX daily data for (0..$#spx - 1){ @c = split /\t/, $spx[$_]; map { tr/,//d } @c; print "$c[0]: BOT SPX \@ $c[3] SLD \@ $c[2] Profit: ", sprintf("%.2f", $c[2] - $c[3]), "\n"; } Watch...

I assure you, you have no reason for that burning jealousy - I promise, I wasn't trying to edge you out! Please: just put down the cheap booze and the sleeping pills, and get help. Life is still worth living, even if this, er, object of your ardent desire didn't respond to you. P.S. That shrill...

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D Daaaaaamn... that is what I call a serious smackdown.

Let's see... Person A comes up with some inane bullshit. Person B says "this is inane bullshit." You jump on person *B* with "And you can prove all you say?" I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that this "Hardison" is a sock puppet account of yours, which is why you're defending it. If...

Ouch. It didn't even bother waiting until the last two minutes... oh well. That's life under market volatility. I've been doing OK lately, but only because I'm keeping the tenor short, watching my trades like a hawk, and getting out when it doesn't go my way (reversion be damned.) Also managed...

The problem is that without a good model, you don't really know what moved the needle. And IV on flies is definitely path dependent - even if you just use BSM, you can see the difference between flat vol that flares at the end vs steady or smoothly-trending vol. Makes a big difference.

I keep seeing this go back and forth; had a convo about it directly with Euan Sinclair, who claims to have made a lot of money on it over the years (i.e., he's certain that the "theta clock" keeps running over the weekend/AH.) I don't have a great model for back-testing - keep trying to build...

It's risk-defined and 0DTE; basically a "make 1 or lose 2" binary outcome with a reasonably high chance of winning. No greeks to worry about... just hold and hope that the market was right about pricing %ITM/%OTM. :) From my experience with these, it's best to exit them at least a couple of...

Sounds like me. "OK, I've heard your theory. Now let's actually put the pedal to the metal and find out." :)

It does. $ text2pdf -h text2pdf [options] [filename] text2pdf makes a 7-bit clean PDF file (version 1.1) from any input file. It reads from standard input or a named file, and writes the PDF file to standard output. There are various options as follows: -h show this...

Easy enough to put it all in the same script and make the PDF converter an argument to it - you'd just have to use 'command' to run it. But that "messiness" is why the philosophy of UNIX has "small is beautiful" as its primary postulate... there's a certain Zen aspect to that, and over the...

Since ICs can only blow out on one side, the risk perspective should be the same from that angle.

:) That all sounds like good things. The script just bundles all the text; I wrote it that way on purpose, so you could use whichever PDF converter you wanted to. If the one you're using doesn't like STDIN, well - there's no exact equivalent to 'mktemp(3)' in the shell (auto-delete on exit)...

On a low-leverage, more-or-less binary-outcome trade like an IC, that's not really the case; e.g., a ~20D 0DTE SPY IC with $2 wings is pricing around 0.70 right now. Even assuming $4 in fees, that's not going to affect things much. The worst case expectancy, comms included, would be 0 (67% * 66...

I don't know about OA's comm structure, but e.g. Tastyworks is pretty cheap - $1/lot, $10 max/leg, no closing fees. Lots of other places do $0.60 per. If you're a veteran, TradeStation has their "Salutes" program which is commission-free (outside of exchange and assignment fees, of course.)

Since you have all the wit and option trading ability of a gonorrhea drip, you shutting up is the best outcome anyone can look for. Go hide in your dank hole, and don't stick your head out until someone explicitly calls for an anal chancre.

"Wounds"? From what, you trying to nip at my ankles? You're toothless as well as brainless, so - nope, not even a scratch here. You, on the other hand, are still limping and whining about the merciless beating you get every time you open your trap around me; in every thread where it's happened...