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Of course a program could do all the above. You just have to spend more time developing the program, giving it rules, gathering the requisite raw data. It could easily be a full time job. The more experience with manual trading you have the greater the amount of nuances you have to take care of...

No, they are viable without the doubling down. I have checked the data execution price on entry (say first entry), and execution price on exit (say last exit). Play them with fixed sum or fixed % of account, and the performance for the year would be GREAT! So i don't think I'm doing it because...

The position sizing does not make sense when I shut down my system. When I operate according to the limits carefully defined and allowed by my system, I have no problem with the size. No, I don't want wild fluctuations deep down - I want to retire with a good cash balance and ability to have an...

Below are the trades for the period. You can see it was two days, and especially two trades, on 2016-11-08 and 2016-11-14, that explains the month. Again it was from known issues - shutting down system and doubling down. All my analysis shows me that this would be a "great" year without...

Awful month. Account well below 200K now (my new poverty-line). Will not post any further updates until I cross above that line.

Period Update for October (10/01/2016 - 11/05/2016) (5 weeks) Come-back month, up 82K (41%). Well not quite all of it, but a good chunk of the loss last month. Earnings season played its part, for which I am grateful. Now need to be extra cautious to avoid going the way of last month...

Thanks for the story. Seen that so much it is not funny - checking every where for an explanation of what is happening and never being able to find it. Even if you want to scrape for news on finance sites like Yahoo Finance, there is so much crap thrown at you, you get tired before getting to...

He just said you are on a WILD GOOSE CHASE, with your limited resources, and you are still keen on the name of the web site?

Probably wont be too long before you can create your own strike and expiry. make your bid, and an offer will appear based on some market-maker's model. If you know say earnings news is coming out on Monday evening on NFLX, all you need is to hold overnight to say Tues Noon. So on monday you ask...

Is it possible to eat like an elephant and shit like a bird? Eat once and shit a thousand times?

How did he do in 2008? Averaged down and held till the market recovered? Did he start of with that holding timeframe in mind?

What I risk is often different from what I intend to risk - as happened on that Sep 9th day. So its hard to pin the problem on risk level. I suppose that 'only' is being sarcastic.

Period Update for September (09/03/2016 - 10/01/2016) (4 weeks) Terrible month, down 86K (30%). After the big run-up last month, I could probably have foreseen a pull-back, but not on this scale. Started brilliantly with the momentum form last month, until the market collapse on Sep 9th posted...

It was 4200% in 10 years. It is not 420% per year! Otherwise, Buffet stock performance was: 1000 invested in 1964 was worth 11 million in 2014 (1100000% over 50 years or 22,000% per year) easily topping your figure :) :) :)

What you are missing in your analysis is the effect of VOLATILITY on LEVERAGE - seems it is hard for you to understand. You are not getting a cushy 5-10% on asset value in a straight line. Get some data. The S&P over the last 5 years has returned like 11% per year (compounded). Get the daily...

Didn't take long to hear from you, friend. Tell me of your partnership experience.

Yes, long a number of calls on expiration day, and with big size - occasioned by my acceleration formula. Timing was very wrong, especially as I did not limit the position to one in accordance with acceleration rules. All the prior gains were like a bait that prodded me to be more aggressive...

Damn it! Got too used to the low-volatility.

i dont sell, just buy

Period Update for July (07/31/2016 - 09/03/2016) (5 weeks) Fantastic month, up 106K (59%). Great month of upward cruise. Win rate was 64%, and impressive results from my options trading, as every thing I touched there almost always turned golden within a short time. One of my reworked...