Search results

  1. mervyn

    FTMO - bans US traders

    Are they regulated? If not, no love lost.
  2. mervyn

    VIX Trader Drops $17 Million on Bet That Eerie Stock Market Calm Won’t Last

    I have 10 Feb 13 calls from November last year as a bet, which were 50% in red. anyway 3-months bearish bet is a protection strategy.
  3. mervyn

    In option back test, how to calculate volatility?

    you know there is an old saying "past performance does not guarantee future results", so long you understand how options and vol are priced, delta and gamma are good enough to make trading decisions. AND not guarantee you can make money.
  4. mervyn

    An AI trading system example

    no, a good ai is when you talk to that computer, "going make me a millin today", the ai should be able to deposit the money into the acount.
  5. mervyn

    China December CPI -0.3% y/y (expected -0.4%)

    Their food price came down a lot, pork in particular, from reuter headline.
  6. mervyn

    ES Journal - 2023/2024

    today was my go big day, up 44% ytd from jan 1 $5k reset. most gains from nq, some from es and mes, bought into the rally in the afternoon with no stops back to vwap, luckily i shall say.
  7. mervyn

    CME Membership

    another billionaire in the making
  8. mervyn

    CME Membership

    es one tick is 12.5, minus round trip commissions, you still make some.
  9. mervyn

    Is price movement really random and unpredictable?

    price moves because two sides are transacting to create a "market", such as equity futures. people are happy to just trade stocks and mutual funds, until options and etfs, and for example, bitcoin, created out of thin air.
  10. mervyn

    Is price movement really random and unpredictable?

    price movements are random but asset pricing is not, due the the marco economic trends.
  11. mervyn

    Elon Musk issues warning after NYC students pushed out of school to house migrants

    Elon is bullshitting. Migrants are housing in tents during the summer. Floyd Bennett Field used to be a small airport and now a USMC Reserve Center and NYPD train ground are nearby. The weather was bad this week, snow and high winds, luckily it is a warm winter comparing to last year. The...
  12. mervyn

    Asian Financial Crisis Part 2: China's Debt Bomb

    Most folks don’t get it. Shanghai Composite SSE is capital-weighted all A shares index, it is the entire shanghai stock exchange. The direct comparison is not SPX but NYSE composite. Even though the stock index looks very sloppy, But in the same period almost everyone put their savings into...
  13. mervyn

    ES Journal - 2023/2024

    front running the cpi as usual, made 5 points in es, lost 40 points in nq.
  14. mervyn

    IT'S OFFICIAL : The SEC has approve the first ever Bitcoin ETF!

    Only if you have things to short, which we don’t.
  15. mervyn

    Asian Financial Crisis Part 2: China's Debt Bomb

    because we ended the conscription and population were insulated to the war overseas but we fight no less wars since. if conscription is reinstated, you bet the chaos will be on every steet. Pro-Palestinian protesters block NYC bridges and tunnel to demand ceasefire in Gaza 300+...
  16. mervyn

    Asian Financial Crisis Part 2: China's Debt Bomb

    not sure when the bidens came onshore but pretty sure lot of irish folks came because of great famine. shits happened throughout, michael jackson and lionel richie wrote a song in the 80s in response to africa famine. any climate changes everyone will eat dirt. the point of being a civiliation...
  17. mervyn

    IT'S OFFICIAL : The SEC has approve the first ever Bitcoin ETF!

    ETN is not a ETF, big difference.
  18. mervyn

    IT'S OFFICIAL : The SEC has approve the first ever Bitcoin ETF!

    Gary is not that easy to back down, now he’s spoken.
Back
Top