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Despite you calling me a loser, I'm open to influence. If you are long option premium and you have 95% winners, then I'm stumped. This means (I suppose) you are making directional bets with ultra-high accuracy. But no mere mortal has that level of directional accuracy. So what are we to make...

Sounds like you're selling DOTM option premium. At the risk of stating the obvious, picking up nickels in front of a steamroller.

Most traders wouldn't consider contacting the exchange directly so I'm glad you did. I have called them a couple times over the years and have found them to be very responsive and glad to answer questions.

If you really study this topic extensively, you will find one camp that claims market prices are "fractal" in all time frames, just as Apophenia indicates above. IOW, the same technical patterns occur in multiple timeframes, so all timeframes are equally valid for TA. There is another camp...

Fundamental analysis (the kind you've been studying) is useful for determining the valuation of a company. That might be useful if you are buying or selling a company outright. A company's share price traded as stock on a public exchange is a different matter. It has three components 1) broad...

The funny thing about this question is that the FX position often is the hedge.

Trading in size will be expensive using the ETF. Trade the gold futures, has benefits of lower cost with better tax treatment.

Bone, I nominate you for the next open position on the CME Board of Directors. More power to the spread traders!

Aluminum and copper have a lot of spread trading potential. But they're not in the precious metals category.

I applaud any exchange support that promotes spreads. But no interest in spreading these contracts. Take the Gold/Silver spread, for example. Economists and financial journalists write about it. But for traders, it's poorly correlated and poorly cointegrated. It's really a currency vs...

Stat Arb (aka, convergence trading) is challenging because there are so few trading instruments that are cointegrated with consistency. You can apply a Relative Strength model (aka, divergence, trend, or swing trading) to any number of instruments, so there is no difficulty in finding markets...

It's all good :)

I was asking for clarification (I've been a TC2000 subscriber for years). What does "historical data simulation" mean, simulating historical data? More likely, the OP was asking about backtesting a trading system, maybe with walk-forward testing as a feature? Wasn't sure, so I asked. And no...

Let me restate my last post more clearly and accurately (I'm unable to edit it): You want to construct your chart to match the model you are trading. If you are trading a relative strength model where you are expecting one stock to move more than the other, then a ratio chart is appropriate...

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You want to construct your chart to match the model you are trading. If you are trading relative strength where you are expecting one stock to move more than the other in the pair, then a ratio is appropriate. If you are trading stat arb where you are expecting the stock prices to converge to...

Now that's a fair reply. Thanks for the education. Good trading!

You know what they say, when you are in a hole, stop ...

I think you just revealed more about yourself than you wanted to.

Please elaborate on what "historical data simulation" means?