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    what are some interesting/counterintuitive things you have learned trading options?

    i just took statistics.. and i asked specifically why we n-1 in the denominator when finding stardard dev.. remember.. historic vol is just a measure of past volatility.. or standard dev.. if we take a population standard dev we wouldn't use n-1 because there are no degrees of freedom...
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    edge?

    crashing is good for trading if your liquid or long convexity at the end of the day.. bring it on.. haha jk
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    Follow the Smart Money / COT Analysis

    that does give you the idea that sugar could go up... looks like a good chart.. is there a theoretically way to get long with options.. who even knows what the term structure of the futures looks like and what the cost of carrying a long is?
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    How many contracts is too many concerning SPX liquidity?

    thats the question to ask...
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    channels

    funny i knew that looked familar.. i've read about and used relational databases for a while.. basically your talking about a conditional block of code.. every programming language has variants on them... i'm typically used to ones like... if this, then that... or in other cases optimized...
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    Delta hedging on teenies

    interesting.. the first thought i had a bout this idea is liquidity.. your putting it on low vix environment when liquidity is most likely very high compared to when the environment goes to a rising vix.. .. this is relative to the put.. not the call spread.. as the call spread is just a way...
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    channels

    so what is LTL
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    ES Journal - 2013

    retracement or breakout.. when do you think its viable to make that call..
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    Time

    your backtesting is just your trading... i'm sure there could be some real optimization aand backtesting to the time stop idea...
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    what are some interesting/counterintuitive things you have learned trading options?

    everyone has just heard it so many times. its redundent..
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    edge?

    respectively you see a positive skew in commodities options because the tails send prices up..opposite to the index skew... seems impossible to price deep otm's considering the frequency of such events... theoretically you could make millions selling calls on ags for years and retire.. and...
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    what are some interesting/counterintuitive things you have learned trading options?

    wow.. i wish you wouldn't have... update: the most the most counter intuitive thing in trading is leverage as it is not only measurable via a line in your account window but as well your ability to move past fundamental ideas of options... intellectual leverage..
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    storing and accessing option quotes

    http://www.mysql.com/products/connector/ the reason i personally have looked into mysql is because it is so widely used and its free... well and most importantly i plan to host my data remotely so i don't have the responsibliity of keeping the database software up to date... a hosting...
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    storing and accessing option quotes

    there are so many reasons to use a database to me... i mean understand that it requires additional overhead.. but i think the advantages are so great that its just counter intuitive... i've looked into this very issue to some depth .. i've done some web development and realize how quickly a...
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    How many contracts is too many concerning SPX liquidity?

    Liquidity changes agreed? At times of generally low liquid spx is lower.... its at critical times... that's just from what I've read..
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    edge?

    What's PA
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    edge?

    Leverage , credit, etc..... will be out downfall...
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    long euro

    What guess work in trading? Hahs
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    One Minute Hershey Without Volume

    So... what is SCT..... an acronym obviously
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    channels

    I'm lost in acronyms.... ftt? Rmb something.... can anyone explain
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