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Thanks never2old. Useful screen. This is sort of working in reverse for me because I generally start with fundamental screens I’ve backtested through 1970, then I set buy points at technical entries, then I consult options. I am not sure how big of an edge if any I will have on just the...

That's the other solution I was thinking. So that I am not taking on assignment risk (even though I've never had this issue before), I would look to close out. Any other ideas?

That is correct. Any recommendations for when the options do become available at that price (if they do)? I can give you other examples as well right now on other tickers but most of the stocks are still a ways away from my limit orders. Push comes to shove and I will just buy on limit orders...

LUV is one of the stocks I'm targetting. I'll be operating with limit orders or limit order options on a lot of other names too. I have a limit order on it at $10. I realize this is quite deep and may never get filled. If it does get filled I would expect a pop within a year to $20-25. I don't...

What would you recommend specifically? I'm thinking OTM fly call and purchasing an extra call at some point when vola drops if it goes my way.

Over the years I've developed a pretty simple way to jack up my returns from two basic systems I trade: (1) monthly momentum and (2) undervalued stocks long term. I know and have read lots of threads here with some pretty sophisticated posters but generally all I do is employ LEAPs when...

Based on my continuing search efforts, I think you're right. Time to give this a shot I guess.

Jack: Get what you're saying on options. Same as with the underlying, although I've found as long as I'm trading under the size on the bid and ask, I can almost always get filled immediately going 75% to the ask with a limit. Any thoughts again though on the platform? Google has yielded me no...

It's not my objective to trade low volume options. It just so happens that my strategy does better on lower capitalized issues, which tend to have lower volume. Do you recommend any tool that will estimate the fill for me with any reasonable degree of accuracy? Also, I checked with Hoadley.net...

Thanks. Going through the plugins they have available now. I should have also mentioned that my strategy relies on a few percentage of stocks <20% for 90%+ of the profits.

Hi guys, Long time no post. I currently use Interactive Brokers for long term investing (and hopefully a solution to what I'm looking for can be found there, but if not, no big deal). My hold time on this specific strategy is one year, although I'll sometimes exit early due to technical, and I...

I appreciate your response and agree that I would have received a better welcome had I done the work you suggested. To answer your inquiry: This isn't the basis for a trading strategy or method, just a means of risk control and timing. You could say I'm wrong for using it in that matter, too...

Rofl. Thanks guys. I actually did want to clarify my initial post, which I admit was written haphazardly. Also, my analogy was false as that function would never go negative. A concaved parabola would have been a better example. So far, we've got at least two jests at my intelligence, but no...

Inputs marked with variables. For any input not specified, output is generated. A% of prior cases where we have gone B days without a C% retracement, we retrace D% over the next E days. Not a programmer. Could probably figure this out, but also wondering if someone has done this since this...

An answer to your question is: Through several bull and bear market phases, low and high volatility, and low and high liquidity. I second the second poster's sentiment, however. If I could do this all over again, I would try to automate some of my rules sooner. That would have saved me quite...

I'm not criticizing, judging, or even evaluating. I've read a few posts from you and am just curious about your track record and history. To summarize: You've traded for a total of 3 years and have averaged just over 35% a year from what you just stated?

Pardon me if you have this somewhere in this journal. What is your average % return over the last 5/10/15 years of trading (or whatever other periods make sense based on your time doing this)?

BUMP. Sorry. I know this is obnoxious, but I am doing single instrument exports one at a time and the longer I do this, the more I don't want to do this lol.

If you ask for something, you might as well ask for the moon and the stars - this is what my momma always told me, so I'll try that here as well. In addition to the question above, would anybody be willing to part with futures or stock tick data from inception till 2009? I would with...

Hello everyone. I have a bunch of data from multicharts that I would like to also make available for another custom trading application. I have figured out how to export the data in ascii, but can only do so one at a time. Does anyone know if it is possible to export the entire database by...