Study says retail investors are the losers from anomaly that costs more than $3.
8 billion By Rob Mannix The fresh analysis, which builds on work done by the same team in 2023, shows that professional investors benefit from a pricing anomaly in S&P 500 index options that costs retail investors...
with your example (a delta 8 is more premium) the stoplosses for both side would be 105 dollar. Also the premium on both sides should be sort of equal..
Statistics (without tx costs) with 8/3 delta. Slippage 10 cent on the stoplosses. Note that back then you could not trade 0DTE every day..
On average 40 dollar a day net with one IC. If you do 10 a day you could stop working cesfx :-)
I get your point. By using an IC you can exactly determine your max loss (2% of net liq). With naked you had a hard time e.g. in aug 2015 (flash crash). And 80% profit a year should be enough :)
The hitrate is about the same, average profits per day are good. I only open 1 each day (at 9:45), he opens a lot more and closes sometimes in an early stage. Backtest is mechanical, he is trading on own rules..