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If you've got a system that can trade long options, they are just like extra-mini futures contracts (huge leverage). Because of this, you can trade a small account with the same money management rules that the big boys use in their managed futures systems, if you can find enough volume.

I'm not sure if anyone else was curious about this: Quote from bwolinsky: "The holy grail is the third derivative over various ma period lengths. The change tells you where it has moved to, the change in the change tells you the concavity, and the third derivative's change in the change...

Why not keep a stop under it at all times?

Risk management and emotional control are also part of the edge. When everyone is freaking out, saying focused on the process, rather than the outcome, seems to help. PS........ not sure you know much about the oldest, most time tested edge ever found, which can produce 35% win rates at...

The key to many old strategies (which is not so widely known) is money management rules. To profit from a 35% win rate, you need to make your position sizes much bigger on the winning trades, compared to all the stop outs. Think kickboxing....... good fighters don't get anywhere against each...

I've been trading long options for about a year. Talk about having the odds stacked against you! But you gain a great sense of anticipating exits because of the flame shaped price profile. My edge took about a year to sink in, even though it was presented to me in my first month, via one of...

I just stumbled on this thread. Your idea crystallizes some strange sense I've been getting that the acceleration of the moving average direction might be worth checking. Thanks for the post.