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Of course I meant "If I just buy an option I lose more in theta than gain in delta".

What is the best option strategy to trade directionally long term? If I just buy an option I lose more in theta than gain in theta. If I buy ATM and sell OTM I don't know what to do when OTM becomes ATM (if I want to close the spread, sometimes I get less than I paid). Below is a distribution in...

You can't speed up trading above certain point. Unless you believe in 10000% a year...

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That's a whole another topic. I always assume that someone somewhere uses the same strategy as mine. Millions of people search for profitable strategies and it's very unlikely that I'm the only one who discovered my strategy. So to some extent it doesn't matter if my strategy is known publicly...

On the other hand, if a buyer believes the system works, it's better for him to pay a one off price, than share the profits.

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I didn't say that. Please keep rereading my post until you understand it. Hint - teaching skills means more people have them.

Don't worry about me understanding trading, fella, have been doing this long enough. Driving and trading is a skill like everything else. Teach someone else - you get more competition.

If you apply this logic to other industries, it sounds ridiculous. Why would anyone teach me to drive, if they can do driving themselves and make more money (less competition). Why would anyone sell graphics program if they could make money using it?

You tried a method for a few days and then you say it doesn't work??? You have to work on a method sometimes for years before you can make money on it.

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According to their website, everyone does it wrong, they're the only ones that are right and they can sell you the software for few grand, so you can be right too. PriceActionLab is a definition of curve fitting, it's surprising that such blatant advertising on ET goes unbanned.

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