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Buy deep OTM calls/puts on expiration day in weeklies in SPY. There is expirations every wednesday and friday. Just keep going until the $5k is gone.

Index and direct equities are treated differently from investments in absolute return vehicles like CTA programs and hedge funds. Pensions endowments like CALPERS, etc. Pension funds and endowments with tens of billions in AUM. I see institutions that are looking for stable return of 7%...

Been active in the CTA/HF industry previously so I have pretty good knowledge what requirements they have for risk tolerance. Generally large institutions shun anything which got larger than 5% annual DD. FO's may accept more annualized risk, but not above 10%

MDD of 33%? that will get any institution or family office to puke their lunch. CALMAR and MAR numbers are most important imho as it says something about real-world risk and performance.

How did successful traders learn how to trade? Hard work and trial and error until they found something that did work out for them. I think all successful traders have their own unique style, including me. Have yet never seen anyone else in the whole world that trade in the same way as I do...

Isn't USDT a tracker instrument? a tracker just tracks the price of the underlying, it doesn't have to be backed by anything.

Traders at firms execute orders on behalf of customers or portfolio managers (HF's, investment banks, retail banks, etc). You will not be trading using your own head. You will be executing orders that others have decided for you. It's boring grunt work, and a dying breed as trading desks have...

That was my experience too. I didn't start making money until after 10 years of active trading. Had cumulative losses of $200k up to the point I did turn around. It was all hard work and tens of thousands of hours spent. One advice I can give is have a day job and keep the trading as a hobby...

-40% DD? That is a lot you know. So you are making 40% annualised return for a risk of 40%, that is not very good Return vs Risk ratio. In my opinion the ratio should at least be 3 to 1 for a good system.

As European located asset manager you can get CTA/CPO licensed (NFA + CFTC). Beside that you need a local registered LLC with the requirements like accountant, lawyer, etc. Here in my country one may buy a new empty company off-the-shelf that is already setup and got everything needed, all...

Yes, was talking only in the context of a wide and deep stock index consisting of large bluechips stocks, like S&P 500 or Dow Jones Industrials. Wide in the sense of many constituents and deep as each has a large market cap which have dampening the effect of selling, takes lots of volume to make...

Thanks, I will explore that further. For free options EOD data, one can get it at eoddata.com, just have to register and setup free account.

Yeah I've explored that. Not geared towards poor amateur retail traders like me. Can afford to shell out 10 to 20 bucks at max. I figure in this day and age of digitalisation where must be thousands of market participants recording the options quotes being broadcast to the national ECN.

Well, futures allow you to tailor risk to be what you want it do be. Even less leverage than the 1:1 that index ETF's like SPY and QQQ got. Just because it is futures does not mean one have to use the leverage. It's relation of the nominal value of the furures contract relative your account size.

Large and wide indexes like S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, etc. seldom gap much at open, maybe in the range pf minus 3-4% as most. So overnight risk is not much of a issue for these. Induvidual shares and sector ETF's is a different story. I would use long term hold of futures instead of owning a 3xETF...

Where do I find intraday data for expired options on major ETF like SPY and QQQ? I need the data to include market maker bid and ask quotes. Preferably on a 1 minute resolution. The data should be free of cost.

I would make a long term options play on some market or asset, a bet that have decent probability of panning out. Example I would bet on S&P 500 index reaching the level of 3000 within the next 3 years, a 20% increase. A deep out-of-the-money option for 0.20 cents that go to $2 is a 1000%...

Go to a retail bank and borrow 40-50k in blanco. If you have stable employment with an decent salary you should be able to do so. Where in the Nordic/Scandinavia you can do it for only 3.0-3.5% annually. No one will invest a single dime into your system without it trading 2-3 years with real...

Not for me, but I do not mind gambling with options for a tiny fraction of your portfolio. Like say you take 1% of your portfolio and then slice that up in 10 pieces of 0.10% so you are able to make ten very risky but high reward options trades during a year. That can boost annual returns if you...

If you are squeezed by margin hikes you are taking too much risk. I would say you deserve to get spanked. They need to protect other customers and the firm it self. If you do not like the rules, you may go to an other more liberal broker.