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there is an inherent advantage to selling index puts relative to single name puts.... there are alot of dead single names, and the index is price relatively higher then its constituents put together

if after a year or two of trading you have learned no programming, no math, no risk management, nothing about quantitative methods.. it is obvious why you failed.. If you have been researching alot you will have learned ALOT and that can't be taken away.. Many of the skills are transferable in...

i've tried to join the yahoo groups for amibroker... to get some information about the capacity to use feeds that don't have native adapters built in.. there is a DDE adapter which is a fall back.. but is it possible to use Active Tick with Amibroker? I couldn't seem to get a straight answer...

this thread is like so many before it... i've learned alot over the past year reading similar ones and researching from there.. i think there is sort of progression of trading that happens for the person coming into trading options... you buy premium.. find out about what "theta is"...

nope i wasn't talking about that.. haha never heard of that.. so your nomalizing PA to volume.. that should give you a decent picture of the path of least resistance..

whats 100 volume time frame.. sorry

whats the alternative to bracket trading>>> >???

overall i'm getting quite an education from trading.. Math, finance, etc etc etc...

it seems there is a great divide between guys that are strategy based traders, and options vol traders... like there is not one guy from the options forums that posts in the strategy threads.. yeah.. what your talking about applys to options as well. . its like spread trading from the...

what is CEP? ... i really shouldn't even be thinking at this level.. my thoughts were to build some indicators and or signals to identify consolidations and breakouts for options trading... so if i'm in a butterfly and i get a breakout signal i can take profits... just stuff like that...

omg.. we are a crazy bunch.. haha i've got the crazy part down.. to be a part

haha maybe thats good news for me.. and i'm ok with being stuck in i don't f9cking understand mode..

no problem with that.. its the data that is the killer.. 1300 minimum with tickdata.. for what i'm doing though it won't be necessary.. active tick goes back to 2010 .. "ActiveTick offers complete tick time series for all symbols starting from January 01, 2010 to present time." for...

thanks.. thats what i was looking for... "fast" is what i'm willing to pay for.. i think the guy that wrote that program "gets it" he isn't all tied up in the whole marketability of the platform.. its sort of self selling..

you mean get your stops knocked out?

that xtrader spread trader looks pretty niffty..

i've been looking seriously at Amibroker... seems like more centered around good code instead of flashy interface... plus most people that use it are happy.. its not expensive.. quickly i've found out.. you can't get around data... you need good data...... i start to accumulate data.. there...

Yea...I tend to hate how bad my naratives after the fact... I ageee

i'm thinking thats a bull flag.. and we get a break up.. its respecting all those lines.. i'm doubting a pull back.. just a wild stupid guess. though

yeah well the assumption seems to be.. if your going to backtest.. you are going to automate or not make money.. doesn't make sense to me.. because we as humans now have useless brains..