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Selling premium for a small trader may as well be doubling up in the underlying as price moves against him, with the assumption of future reversion. Same game more or less.

I'd almost wager that you won't last the year. Good luck though.

There's your problem.

Rephrasing: There is no other way to quote forex profitably without getting run over. It's algos or die.

Is there any other way to quote spot forex?

Agreed. The range of products and ease of integration rivals a lot of insto offerings, and is unmatched by any retail broker. Not that they're perfect. Just better then anything else out there in terms of multi-asset multi-market DMA.

Spend a year learning someone else's framework. And frameworks on top of frameworks for the sake of frameworks. This is not algo trading, it's software architecture fetishism.

Nothing wrong with that. Looking at it a certain way, I am on the synthetic short vol side of things a lot of the time, although only as a side effect of some passive order sizing, supporting a few specific microstructure games.

Making a spread around fair value, then passively waiting for someone else to actively pay above, or receive below.

Not that it matters, but none of this is hard to do in C#. If it appears to be hard, then you're doing it wrong.

Only when it's growing :p p.s. Hey bowo, did you really pass that CFA?

how many codes do you need?

Sounds like some kind of index replication to me. The sort that no-one has thought of before. OP ?

It can be done easily through IB, but it's not especially fast. So, send your biggest orders first.

Anything, if you trade SPY :p

The equity curve looked like commissions were missing. Looks like the entire post has disappeared now.

Yes, but it is still stupid. - The stock is falling. - I want to short it, but can't. - So, I buy a put. - The MM is now short the put, and likely delta hedged with naked short stock. The stock still gets sold short naked, it's just via the MM.

Not marketing. Far from it, & I disagree about the binary part. They're essentially swaps for retail. Just thinking about apparent leverage without stop slippage specifically. The CFD provider would seem to be kind of selling vol, by taking on the slippage / gap risk. Edit .. so...

Laughable. Pay any commissions?

Slightly off topic, and related to a product that I don't really know .. "Leveraged CFDs with guaranteed stops". Just wondering if these things can be viewed as long ITM options. Edit: And if so .. there's a vol trade somewhere [?].