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That's not a straddle; it's a strangle. Big difference. And yes, they put on a lot of them when IV rank is high; their research shows that it's the strategy with the highest ROI over time. It is not, however, a great strategy for someone with a small account; naked strategies require a lot of...

Sure! How many did you want?

Ah. A personalization instead of a factual argument from someone too ignorant to even understand coding. That explains a lot. Incidentally: I've also been a soldier (infantryman and military intelligence operator), an electronics technician, a millimeter-wave radar system designer, a...

There's a somewhat loose relationship to liquidity; you're not likely to have good options volume for a stock that doesn't have good trading volume. I've found it useful for constructing scanners in the past.

1) Your "code" offers nothing that simply copying and pasting the file doesn't. Why would you even bother suggesting it? Could it be because just advising someone to C&P the file once an hour is so obviously nonsensical? It's not a solution that helps anyone. There's no possibility of it helping...

...and that, kiddies, is how you either a) end up with a damaged file as a useless "backup", or b) flood your disk with an endless list of copies. Not the best example of good program design, coding practice, or even trivial usability I've ever seen. A minimal solution would involve, at the...

Ya know, there might be somebody you know who scripts stuff. A guy might could do worse than talk to somebody like that. (You probably don't speak either the Wisconsin or the Meenasooota flavor of Indirect Communication, but I just filled up on Culver's frozen custard which is from around...

Crap. Looks like I need to go on hiatus for a while; annoying as hell, since I just started. Just got a fair amount of irreducible chaos injected into my life, and have to deal with that... I'll be back as soon as I can.

Went back to my drugs of choice for a bit, just to see if the magic still works: scalped a few ticks out of CL, GC, and ES. Result: 100% win rate, $88 up. And no, I wasn't "eating like a bird, shitting like an elephant"; all entries were made with the standard stops and limits. I just exited...

Sure hope not - or at least not yet. I'll be rolling that Iron Condor in CL unless the price bounces before expiration; it's punched all the way through my put-side spread, and I'm not in the mood for just taking a loss on it. For all my limited experience in the market, I'm bullish oil -...

My options journal: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/bluewatersailor-trading-journey-and-journal.335295

My futures journal: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/bluewatersailor-futures-journal.339627

And now, back to our regularly-scheduled program! Did 6 trades yesterday, all of which just felt wrong, 180° out of sync - and went down $42 before quitting for the day. But... that's actually good. It means that I do have some sense, some perception of what "right", or "in sync" is - even if I...

Nah, seems like looping you in was the magical solution. :) I restarted the browser again - probably about the fifth time since the problem began - and now it works. Thanks! Now that I know, I'll ping you when my car starts making funny noises...

This is seriously weird;the ET text editor is not showing anything I type until I scroll. Been trying to post since yesterday; logged out/back in, reloaded, rebooted... nothing helps. @Baron - any suggestions or help?

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Did a bunch of trades in MYM today; it felt - odd, by comparison to CL. Kinda spiky, sharp movements, if that makes any sense (don't know how to quantify it otherwise.) Up $44 overall, which surprised me. It's also a bit frustrating, actually, because it feels like I'm doing nothing more than...

TW is pretty good; I like the platform quite a bit, and have been using it for options trading for a good while. Can't do any chart trading on it, so no futures trading as such - just options on futures - so I'm using TradeStation for that. The Small Exchange was supposed to happen last year...

Same contract.

Raw beginner. Working at getting the basics down solid, but have already done a couple of hundred trades in sim. Also, still going through the initial setup process; e.g., I need a couple of different sim accounts so I can a) try new stuff to discover what works/makes sense and b) develop a...