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Or tell people that you are a “Trading Quant” they for sure will give you weird looks! :D

Who cares?

Good luck! I'll be watching!

Let the diarrhea begin! :cool:

According to FIBs it is going to 1380.

I could not have said it better! You got it!

I do not usually guess about the size of the move. But 50 – 70 points, may be 100 on S&P looks pretty reasonable.

I am selling June 1 STD OTM calls. I think that we will see a major pull back. I am just looking on put/call ratio and VIX. Also ask/bid sizes are drying up. It is not by any means a recommendation. It is just my personal opinion. Of course, I could be wrong.

Here is what I got: "You are a Spontaneous Trader! You are probably enthusiastic, warm and quite imaginative. You see life as being full of possibilities. In addition, you are able to quickly make connections between events and the information to which you are exposed and then make...

The only reason for using multiple strategies is to reduce your overall margin requirements and, therefore increase your leverage. That is what we do anyways.

You have no idea how right you are! :cool:

I definitely understand the difference. My point was related mostly to the multiple strategies scenario. However, correlation between the strategies usually stems out from the correlation of the data they are running on.

Switch to Oil! :cool:

Both of my daughters are in University. One has just graduated with honors (degree in computer science) and the younger one is still in the Law School. Both of them trade. I find that trading stimulates their ability to succeed! Of course, you cannot be a hard-core day trader but there are other...

There is a very notable confusion here: correlation between two time series (two or more sets of market data) and correlation between two or more strategies applied to those sets of data. Essentially this confusion stems form the misunderstanding of the difference between random variables and...

I played the dump perfectly!

I am sorry, but I cannot be clearer. It seems to me that the point I am trying to make escapes you. It is probably my fault and is the function of my limited ability to explain things. I apologize for that. I only hope that by conducting your own experiments the subject would appear more...

I probably do have different understanding. It by any means does not make your opinion less valid. I understand where you are coming from and would be delighted to share what I know if it helps you in your trading. Cheers, MAESTRO

It reduces both risk and reward keeping the ratio steady. It does, however, reduce the min required capital requirements of your portfolio.