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I am also interested in knowing what kind of size of account they can take. If one opens a 100k account and make 40% per annum, would that be a problem for them? especially if it is true that they are bucket shops and do not hedge their positions? How about a $1 mil account, is that too big for...

I think Ansbacher's fund size is about $120 mil now and is growing. There are other premium seller funds too. Add to that the possibility of others joining in to sell premiums, does that mean that we are looking at lower and lower premiums ahead up till a point that it is no longer...

Do you sell naked or spreads? If naked, how do you intend to hedge your position if price starts moving against you?

Question is without changing the parameter, will your model remain as profitable in a bear market? If one parameter needs to be changed in a bear market to be profitable, then it all depends all how reliable your analysis of bear market is, right?

Do you sell naked or spreads? If naked, how do you intend to hedge your position if price starts moving against you?

And just what is the solution please? Is it dealing with spreads/condors rather than just naked short?

Can somebody explain why? TQ.

1) Ok. Thanks. Regarding the stop limit entry order with bracket, can I set them to be GTC orders? Will the orders be cancelled after the reset time? I am not familiar with using GTC orders. 2) In relation to other products, can GTC orders be applied to all order types including limit, stop...

Steve, 1) What about adding a bracket order to a stop or stop limit (instead of a limit order) ENTRY order? I suppose that is also possible, right? 2) Is the default trigger method for stops for IDEALPRO(a cash product) on bid/ask or is it on the last method?

I am not so sure if you absolutely need market direction to profit from options because a few of the top performing funds explicitly state that they believe that market is efficient and that it is pointless to time or predict the market. They just execute market neutral strategies and are having...

I agree. To say one can profit with trend is one thing but to have a 90% accuracy is another. All these claims of 90% accuracy is meaningless and irresponsible without regard to things like average win and average loss. I am not against trend trading, just not the level of accuracy without any...

Yes, in a sense, price can only do one of the 4 things. But what are you trying to say here? Can you trade profitably knowing that price will do one of the 4 things but not knowing which comes first or the different manifestations of these simple classifications?

I do not know what is the consensus but Dr. Tharp in his book defines money management as that aspect of trading that determines how much to bet per equity level or account size. In other words, money management is position sizing and has nothing to do with trade management, which is about size...

300 pips a month on average means a yearly gain of about 3600 pips. That would be about $36,000 gain per annum per 100k contract. My question is how much capital do you allocate to trade one 100k contract? Assuming you use a leverage of 1:10, are you then expecting a consistent yearly average...

When volatility is low, the probability of profiting from selling a wide body condor increases, right? Why should I then get better prices for my increased probability in a low volatility environment?

Can someone please explain how fly and condor prices will drop as volatility rises? Shouldn't it be the other way round? Thanks

Hi, Your trade produced 12 ticks profit. May I know what is your average size of profit and losses. Also, what is your winning ratio? My opinion is that the size of the gain is a bit on the low side, though I understand it to be a scalping system. Have u tried it on higher time frame charts...

Hi all, I have a question relating to covered call writing. If I have a fund, say 10 mil, and I invest mostly in low P/E or P/NTA stocks(in other words, value stocks) and I sell covered call options on the stocks that I own, can I expect to consistently outperform the S&P? I am not talking...

steve46, Thanks. So, you are saying traders in big firms are actually only executing a predetermined program written by quants? Can you tell me a little bit about what these programs try to achieve? Do they mostly try to capture arbitrage opportunities by exploiting pricing differences across...

Can someone explain to me what does the trader in big firms do? Do they basically trade using financial models developed by quant-developer or are they free to employ whatever methods they deem appropriate? And exactly what does these quant-developers do? Developing financial models with no...