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China hasn’t been making many friends lately. They’ve done a great job of alienating themselves from just about everybody it seems.

Have fun mixing it up with the Bots and Algos. No thanks. :caution:

Trading with a spouse in the room is probably a terrible idea TBH. On a number of levels.

Belly dancing predates it all.

The Chinese Communist Party will most certainly hail the vaccine as a triumphant success and flood the internet with the good news. Regardless. It's a given.

First of all, the Chinese Communist Party will NOT allow Chinese scientists to use Western search engines to query foreign scientific literature and publications. And China restricts most native research from being published online and subjected to outside peer review. China is a leader in...

I have a difficult time believing anything from the Chinese government these days. Freedom for Hong Kong!

Spread trading as a strategy is supremely viable. And again - if you are trading highly correlated instruments as part of a formal spread trading program in order to capture a spread differential it's a great idea. Big prop traders, small prop traders, smart independent traders, hedge funds...

The ones where you are hedged correctly and simultaneously from the start in order to capture the spread differential - NOT the strategy where you have on a stinker and you belatedly hedge a loser because of an emotional fault that short circuits your ability to take a clean loss and move on. ;)

Bears and bulls are going to tire quickly of talking up their bias every other day. Chicken Little died a violent death in March. For now. Short term retail wanker panic provided a sweet value opportunity for the long term commercials. We're going to be in a rangebound trade short to...

Penny stock hype.

Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time. Bloomberg Businessweek Horse racing is something like a religion in Hong Kong, whose citizens bet more than anyone else on Earth. Their...

You need to learn to model markets for yourself if you’re going to take on this level of risk.

You need to learn to model markets for yourself if you’re going to take on this level of risk.

Yes. Any other concerns you may have about NOT being in the front month are massively outweighed by the roll risk of being in the front month with less than a week left until first notice day. Be conservative and don’t twist the dragon’s tail.

OP taught himself day trading during the COVID crisis and so far so good so no worries this is standard fare.

Again, “that depends on the circumstances”. I can’t manage your position for you. Personally I would give myself at least a week before expiry because it is impossible to accurately model roll open interest bias these days. Remember the May contract would be my warning. I would also consider...

Some of those dated expiry price prints are latent artifacts when you’re looking at a price ticker - don’t read too much into singular month anomalies. I’m not sure yet I necessarily agree with the notion that you’ll make money in Backwardation for your particular circumstance as a function of...

Well if he's on his cruise and the market tanks back down to March '20 levels that's a brilliant strategy for selling puts - but OP says he's a day trader with a 30 minute window.

You really are nasty when the markets aren't trading at zero. Besides - scalping from a cruise ship; what could possibly go wrong? Advice from ET'er to write options with no mention of a hedge while on a cruise ship - solid game plan.