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wait...WUT???? You cant reduce risk and increase reward at the same time?? Theres a trade off????

Trust me,in the Summer,its no better

And decreasing profit potential.. No free lunch Learn how to take a loss and find a new trade that offers the best risk reward... If you had funds to place one trade,would the roll be your trade of choice?? Are you in love with diagnols?? Skew trade??

Most likely a poor form of risk management..And you should be asking at what cost..

Hey,troll number 1 actually agrees with your main point.Its your presentation/ reasoning thats waaay off.. Trading options is a really tough game. It's brutally hard,and that's coming from an "institutional trader" with 30 years experience who now trades his own money... Imho,if you aren't...

IF it helps you sleep any better,there is no such thing as "we lose all our money to the MM".They really aren't the predatory beast that keeps you up late at night. They wont steal our lunch money..if anything,they are providing liquidity so guys like you lose less per trade before going the...

Still not sure where you are going..I traded OEX and XMI. I knowxhow much I sold puts for( long conversions) on the opening.Cant imagine anyone losing more money than naked put sellers..

87 had to be put selling...What else could it be??? VOL exploded to 200 plus and clearing firms forced traders to close short put positions in the hole as they had 10 bucks in their account... The opening fills to cover puts were so insanely priced,the exchanges tried to get market makers to...

WTF are you smoking,and would you be open to sharing??

Here is the golden rule.If you wouldnt put on a position to open,why on earth would you roll to avoid taking a loss.Is the roll the optimal use of capital?? Almost never...Its flat out dumb.. As for Tudor,when I traded derivatives at an IB,my salesman,quants and I would meet with him and pitch...

I see what you did...Pussy Pass,followed by you "go down for long".. Anything else come to mind??:)

Why would you compare a covered call/short put with a strangle?? You appear to delta hedge strangles,so comparing a somewhat neutral strategy with one with a delta that you don't hedge makes no sense.. And what is the bad part of the underlying??? Are you suggesting a naked put has an edge...

Maybe you are successful,but You sound like a complete noob.. I call bullshit... Don't worry about me..Im good :)

Goldman Sachs research would disagree with you,not to mention backtesting your beliefs

Im 99% with you,but there are some indicators which do help "eye ball trading/Chart reading"... With that said,price is an input.i.e standard deviation,ATR's and various correlation measures... I think most of the ET multi millionaires here have made there money strictly off of charts,no need...

You need to rethink things...

For the vast majority of indicators,Deaddog is right.

You are clearly NOT curve fitting,optimising enough... You will get there :)

Guy asks for 1 simple example,and not one of the Mega Elite Traders can share one golden nugget??? Things that make you go hmmmmm..

^^^^I cant wait for you to start trading :)