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I cannot tell you that. I would literally be taking food from my kid's mouths. Well, not so dramatic.

Eternal is implying that he's buying the bid and selling the offer with greater frequency than is actually trading. Do you honestly think that some dudes bidding one lots are price making every 20-30 seconds in CL on a Sunday night? Hmmm?

This shit doesn't even qualify as an alpha release. This is not testing of a product that will eventually go live. It's advertising. For their product (ES); not for a front-end. They don't want to take business away from their IBs with a trading platform. C'mon. Nobody makes money from...

It didn't require much thought to come to the realization that THC is counterproductive; especially to traders.

IKR?!

Like I do? I am not suggesting risking your net liq on a week long vol-binge. I am in my early 50s and a few years from retirement. The $100K isn't a lot (for me) as it's just under 1% of my NW.

I haven't trade this account since August. It's just sitting there. It's tax deferred and it's not going to impact me if I blow it out, so why not? Consider it a week-long 100/200 NLHE game where you get to railbird and chat with the degen risking it all. Or you can go read duzo and maxinger's...

I have a (really) good structural edge on index vol. I am confident that I can do at >50% in a week if risking the entire stake in MWF SPX vol.

What better way to one-up this dogshit than to do it... while actually risking $100,000 cash?

Yeah, I suspect that ppl are gaming it by essentially filling first in the sim-queue. Obviously complete BS. Imagine filling 10-lots at $100 per r/t on a penny-gained. 1,000 trades and you've doubled your money. Runs against you and you limit-out at one tick and rinse/repeat.

I'd intended on participating in the CME Institute competition that is running from Dec8 to Dec13. I was familiarizing myself with their sim-account when I noticed that they are only offering Dec20 contracts and later on ES. Previous winners have done better than 100% on starting capital and I...

In this contest? Convert long/short swing trades into synthetic straddles. Fly them off at edge and wait for the next signal. Not what I planned to do. The winner isn't going to be anyone trading the Dec20 vol. I suppose that I might give it a try but it's unlikely that I can do better than...

lol I will explain it for the third time. Previous winners scored gains over 100%. I cannot generate those returns in a one week competition if limited to monthly options so there is no point in wasting the effort.

Well I am out, but I will post my TOS-account gains for the same week. I will utilize $100K of my capital in the SPX MWF options. and post the open/closing figures to this thread (screen grabs). We'll see if I would've placed. $105K in there. Earned $445K for 2019 in my IRA.

CME... the only exchange offering dailies and they can't manage to list them on their sim-competition platform. Not even the weeklies are on there. No combo/spread trading. Cannot enter more than 10 lots. Singles-only. Monthly exp.

There are weeklies and even MWF(wk) options on ES. I am not going to waste time on monthlies. The only series listed on the sim are the monthly expirations.

OEX as FSU states, but why do you need American-style?

I have a structural edge on SPX/ES but I can't make enough trading monthlies to hit the 100-150% that would probably be necessary to win this thing outright.

I don't see how this is going to work for trading vol. The practice account order ticket only shows monthly exp. I don't see this happening if I can't price the weeklies.

Nobody is going to trade #4 when it's an advertised 70% hit rate.