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LOL. You would think he wants to own winners. You sell a put and get the premium and then get assigned. You now have a long position and ther is no reason to not cut losses.

Well on the bright side your discretionary trades are out performing your algo. Best of luck

How are you keeping the two separated? Different accounts? Oh yeah and you didn't define discretionary manual trader.

Maybe you could define that? Is that the reason you are down this year?

Cool I wasn't sure how you defined it, so I asked. Best not to assume shit. At least now I know the problem, if there is one, isn't the trader.

When you say algo are you leting the computer enter and exit trades?

How come you're not?

Why wouldn't you cut losses?

I din't read the post right. My Bad!! I agree with your post

You have just taken the risk out of the trade. How do you know there is little to no upside?

I have a checklist of all conditions that must be met for me to enter a trade. I have the discipline to not trade if all conditions are not met.

You are more than likely responding to someone I have on ignore, (I don't see a quote.) I find that the ignore function works better than name calling. Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. - Mark Twain

The only reason I could see is to be able to show what a great trader you are in the account that makes money.

You have said that a couple times. Why doesn't it make sense?

If you have a few billion in capital you don't have to beat it by much to do really well. I would think that the concept of beating the S&P would have been invented to warn retailers that the various funds and ETFs had a hard time doing that.

It's a benchmark. If you can't outperform buying and holding SPY, why are you wasting your time investing/trading?

Rather than start a new thread I'm trying to see if a thread already exists for a stock. If you search for a stock symbol you get the following error message.

LOL! Like trading if you look long enough you'll find the bridge. Easier & safer & will reduce your chances of being hit by a bus. :)

50000 sounds like a lot but you have to put it in persective. If you are trying to cross a busy freeway on foot and only 5 people out of 100 make it are you going to try? 1 in 20 are the odds any worse? How about if 50,000 people make it. Sounds like a lot until you realize it's still only one...

Respectfully I'd say that would be impossible. How could we possibly know why the market does anything without knowing the reason all the market participants acted as they did.