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People would love to make 20% a year but 20% a year on 50K is not gonna make me rich. Thus I'm looking for a way to sell it.

Right.... If you had 50k to start off and made 20% a year, you only end up with $2M after 20 years. That's why you need more capital, which is what I'm trying to figure out how to get And the more money I have, the less I will be inclined to invest in risky strategies and thus, after about...

Because it is a profitable strategy but I can't guarantee anything.

Yes but I want to start somewhere.

I've thought about using something like lending club to increase the size of my portfolio except I don't like having to pay a fixed rate every year as I can't predict when there will be opportunities to invest in the market. As it is a mean reversion strategy, there will be times when the...

I know I can probably find suckers even though I don't think anyone will actually be upset with investing in this strategy but the hard part is that it needs to be legal.

Well I believe it is profitable, and in the long run, I am very sure it is profitable as it's basically betting on a reversion to the mean. I have traded a form of this strategy for 4+ years but I am still constantly refining it, so the strategy today is different from the strategy a year ago...

Hello! I have an investment/trading strategy that I think is profitable. It's pretty correlated with the S&P 500 but there are both a larger upside and downside (so greater risk/reward), however IMO a better sharp ratio. I would like to see if I can manage other people's money using this...

Hello, I was wondering what the best retail options trading platform is? The main feature I'm looking for is the ability to fit my theoretical values to the market. Basically, the platform needs to fit the options pricing model to what the market is currently doing. Then, I can make my own...

So if you wanted to work for a firm like Getco, you would have to bring in your own trading logic and algorithms? Wouldn't that be tough if you previously worked for another firm? What would compensation be like for a firm like Getco. I'd assume it's base salary plus some sort of bonus...

Thanks. Does your firm have multiple employees or is it just you? I'm just curious to see how trustworthy using IB to execute trades and using their data.

HFT: Does your firm do market making and how much do you know about it?

Hello, I'm just curious if anyone knows of any firms that uses IB to execute trades? I'd assume most top firms directly connect to the exchange, but based on IB's pricing structure, you'd expect some firms to use IB. Thanks.

Hello, Any good books on intraday momentum and how to perform analysis.? I don't want any long term trends, just very short term momentum. Thanks!

I'm confused. I've read conflicting effects of interest rates on option prices. Some say as interest rates rise: -Puts decrease in value while calls increase in value. Others say as interest rates rise: -Both puts and calls decrease in value. What's the right answer? NVM: I think...

Well I have a pretty good understanding of the relationships between the variables by just watching the tape. And that's why I determined the equation Matlab gave me is inaccurate, because it doesn't agree with what I've observed. I can't think of any missing variables although a missing...

I'm new to math, Matlab, stats, etc... Anyways, I'm trying to fit some data points to a curve, and the equation Matlab spits out is quite inaccurate even though Rsquared is 0.97. Tweaking the degrees of the polynomial doesn't help and from looking at the points, a degree higher than 2 isn't...

Thanks for the response! I'm looking at the 'Settlement Procedures' and it says: "The final settlement price is the Special Opening Quotation (SOQ) of the S&P 500 Index in the morning of the third Friday of the contract month.... The S&P 500 Index SOQ is calculated using the official...

For example, a S&P futures contract expires on the third Thursday, making the valuation date the third Friday. How is the valuation price calculated? Why is it different from the closing price of the futures contract and the S&P index itself? Thanks!

Isn't trading a pretty big deal in Netherlands, especially Amsterdam? I know AllOptions is located there.