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    Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    How would you or anyone have an edge of predicting realized volatility so that one can trade implied against it ? Im sure it can be done but who is good at it and how much return and how measured >> thnx
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    Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    Thanks- moving around a lot ? Asin the ATR was above a certain level or had some sort of range ?
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    Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    have you traded commodities or only stock, did you have a Volatility scanner ? thanks
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    Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    lets get real specific: Best way to buy volatility if a trader/guesser thinks its "low" and best way to sell it if trader/guesser thinks its "high" "all else being equal"
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    Straddles, are they ever profitable?

    reminds me The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates
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    Futures Trading

    Joey J, not the Joey I am thinking of, hockey ?
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    lack of credit in spy bull put spreads

    optioncoach, how should it be used or calculated and why so ? thank you
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    Nat Gas Futures Condor

    imagine going to a school and signing an NDA ..
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    Delta hedging long gamma - using queuing to your advantage.

    Thanks for the reply. reading natenburg options of fut's ... helpful to extent....
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    Delta hedging long gamma - using queuing to your advantage.

    no no, got that wrong where talking about options, not you or me, just options. See how things move to "personal" stuff when I talk about what I have seen... first hand, long run they lose..... who is the warren buffet of options and what is his or her returns ? They are a tool to be utlized...
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    Nat Gas Futures Condor

    so i technically "own" the system, or can use it for life since I "help" build it and understand it with direction ?
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    Delta hedging long gamma - using queuing to your advantage.

    what does "work" with options ? Just seems that its a nice tool to utilize free leverage when you have information or hedge yourself if you have an "investment" or your a market maker to the gods and they "allow" you to make money of them because"they" have the information.....
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    Nat Gas Futures Condor

    thanks How does your student learn what trades to take ? So many to consider
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    Nat Gas Futures Condor

    Hi, no just curious what the drawdowns look like historically, NG can be volatile
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    Nat Gas Futures Condor

    what about if I have 50k and only want to allocate 5k to your strat, what the difference 1 lot or 1000 ?
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    Calendar spread value relative to IV

    thnx sle, last few posts clarifying things a bit
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    Calendar spread value relative to IV

    thnx, were you long "inventory" of the underlying or are you saying this is a outright strat ?
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    Calendar spread value relative to IV

    Thank you, to continue. Why can anyone outside of having "information" of course, know if vol is mis priced, be it the move of VOL , the decay of term or otherwise ? Even with 100 years of data, you or anyone really ( not specifically you) "trading" maybe for more or less 20 years AND probable...
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    Calendar spread value relative to IV

    thnx
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