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And your evidence for this is what? And the point of your comment is what?

I hope you can now see what you are in for by responding to Atticus.

Just doing my duty to warn those who don't know about you to do their due diligence.

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Some random thoughts... I have had lots of disappointments in developing strategies. They were usually due to the programmer's maxim: In programming, you are always off by one. I'm embarrassed to tell you how many times I accidentally used some element of the future in developing my...

You can quickly make any graph you would like with respect to the account balance. For example, if you make the account balance at the beginning $1,000 and the month on month return shows 6%, then the end of the month would be $1060. Do that for the rest of the months displayed and have at it.

MG is worth listening to.

It depends.

For those who trade Iron Condors or Credit Spreads; how do you choose the legs and the series?

My personal preference is to have out of sample data set be on the same symbol as the in sample data set, but with randomly chosen segments for each. That removes my concern for correlation between symbols, and places multiple instances of different market conditions into each set. Since the...

You seem to have insights into the individual trading habits of some traders that a retail trader would not have. What can a retail trader learn from your insights?

Oops! Maxims it is, although some certainly relate to maximums. My English professor in college spoke and wrote English better than all the engineers and scientists in his class and he learned ESL. Go figure.

As a Thank You to everyone who has visited this thread and knows that I like to use flying maximums when describing trading concepts, you can enjoy a random selection from over 130 I have accumulated. All I Know About Trading Options I Learned in Flight School

Each bar represents the change from the balance at the end of the previous month on the account devoted to this strategy.

Still there. Still doing that. I fight these demons every trade. Keeping a journal, carefully reviewing my trades for trader error (that would be me) and seeing if the performance is within expectations are my coping methods.

What strategy are you pursuing? What was your thinking in picking your short strike? What were your plans if the underlying increased, decreased or stayed relatively stable? Then maybe we can offer some advice.

Let's start with some easy steps. 1. I create a spread by clicking when the mouse says sell for the short strike. I then hold down the ctrl key and click the long strike when the mouse shows buy. You can create up to four legs that way. 2. Under Layout, you can add/subtract columns in the...

You might be confusing the exercise rule with a holding rule. I am in and out of spreads on European-style options all the time.

I am currently at $1.50 with no ticket charge. I will be making a request for $1.25 shortly as others have told me it is possible with my volume. We'll see. My recollection is that in paper money, the commission rates are higher.

Can't help you there. I trade credit spreads and prefer European style. RUT, NDX and SPX.