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Ah yes, good old BoWo. Still have a "conversation" with him over in his thread if you want the entertainment. It's basically me pointing out things he could do better and him saying that he, his wife and his mother (I cannot make stuff like this up) are the greatest ever at what they do. You...

Ah BoWo... and here is a clear illustration of another problem with the BoWo PTQQ2: Do you think if a system goes from "almost overbought" to "nearly oversold" in two days and then back to "nearly overbought" in a one day move in a tight little rangebound market... that you might be doing...

It's also quite likely to be a difference in the adjustment for dividends. Different data services will do it slightly differently.

Ok. Good start. I did not have a chance to go through your trades carefully, but they are slightly different than mine. I did code mine from scratch so there's a chance the mistake is actually mine... haven't had a chance to check carefully but I'm fairly sure what I did is correct...

Yikes, made a mistake with what i posted. Correction here in bold: The rule I posted is fine, but there was a potential issue with entries and exits that you'll see if you use it. You should set up your testing structure, however you do it, so that these things are variables... making a...

Ok. And? Is this just a random observation or was there a point?

Ok... cool... but how about this deal? You guys do the work. I'll give ideas and lay out each step, but it's up to the readers of this thread to actually crunch the numbers and come up with answers to each step. As long as we get good answers or good attempts at answers I'll go through the...

Yeah the more I think about it the more I think that's not fair though. Let's stick with the system as I posted it. Only issue there is that we may not actually trade it here so we won't have actual fills to compare. That's ok too though I suppose and if it's a choice between having some...

Question for the forum: I had a thought. I could develop a rough system around the technical pullback idea, post some of the backtest, talk about how to optimize it properly, and then track it going forward in this thread on a handful of stocks. Obviously, this sounds interesting, right...

Ok starting with #3, the programming question. First off, be clear I am not a programmer. If I started listing the dozen or so languages that I have programmed in you might disagree, but you would be wrong. :) As you probably know, real programming is a skill... there's a beauty and elegance...

Mr Wolinksy has a number of funny habits, but one of the most obvious is that when he is challenged and proven wrong, he just ignores the challenge. Someone pm'd and suggested it would be nice to show the trades from my improvement of BoWo's system. The only problem with that is that I did...

Who's the idiot that can't read English? I said calculate your price before the open based on where it will open. I said nothing about unwinding after hours. Also, my advice was to take half off the table first thing on the open and I gave the OP specific advice on how to get the best...

Yes I do trade for a living, and yes I trade a lot of options. Your rudeness is misplaced. Of course this is not a vol trade, but the issue is that the OP bought an option with inflated implied vol before earnings. (A silly thing to do btw.) He got a gift. From an execution...

BoWo, Have a nice trip. When you get a chance kindly take a look at the system I posted last night. Will be happy to discuss, but I think it's clear the distribution from this is quite a bit better than the one from your 2.0 system. I'm happy to discuss your oversights and errors and we...

First, answer this: What typically happens wrt implied volatility in a situation like RIMM this morning?

I know BoWo is probably in his Winnebago on a long trip to Kentucky... and I'm sure he will tear up a little and have a respectful moment of silence (maybe even take his hand out of the bag of cheetos in his lap and wipe his little yellow fingers on his shirt before he wipes the tears from his...

it's a silly suggestion to "hedge" by shorting the stock. read my answer above... that's how i'd play it unless i wanted to play the direction of the stock... but that's a different play tomorrow. people screw around thinking theyre hedging but they are just complicating the position. for...

<sigh> no. wrong.

Calculate the fair value of the option using the implied vol the option closed with yesterday and the price the stock will open. This has to be done 5 mins or less before the open. Sell at a limit maybe 5% above that price. Get the order in at the open. If not filled in the opening...

Lol. You caught the Hallmark thing too? I believe she is "one of the greatest" Hallmark designers but not sure. I also just took another 3 minutes to run the QID QLD 3.0 system on SSO SDS and it works just as well with the exact same parameters as QID QLD. I know he's having some trouble...