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    CTA Startup

    When first starting up, how does one get listed and officially tracked on the major databases, and is there a minimum AUM requirement or number of outside investors to be considered? Thanks.
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    CTA Startup

    What are the regulations and/or relevant regulatory body when it comes to trading options on futures? Let's say that one's fund was primarily trading equity options but that a small percentage was dedicated to trading futures options. Would both the SEC and NFA be involved. Thanks
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    - Question about Volatility when selling premium?

    Do the two have to be mutually exclusive? I'm not sure I understand why that would have to be the case. It would seem to me that one's overall option trading portfolio could have both long gamma and short gamma trades. Indexes and/or stocks with relatively high IV could be more conducive to...
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    Short gamma trade in EBAY

    Riskarb, Just a question, not meant in a negative way, but isn't this type of trade that is the proverbial stepping in front of freight trains to pick up nickels? Everything I've read and studied on options trading (just finished Baird's Option Market Making) plus my own LIMITED...
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    OTM LEAP call calendar spreads - Comments/thoughts?

    Hey Mav, Majorly delayed response here, but I wanted to respond because either you misunderstood what I am trying to do or I am missing something big-time. What am I trying to do? In a nutshell, I am making a LONG-TERM directional bet and attempting to do it in a manner that has MINIMAL...
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    Buying Power - Pooled Equity - Trading Capital

    Don, I have two questions for you regarding your answer above in terms of somebody being a prop trader under Bright vs. forming and setting up their own hedge fund. 1. Do you allow the trader to trade the markets (equities, futures, currencies), instruments (underlying, options), and time...
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    LEAP Put ratio backspreads on QQQ, tech & Internet stocks?

    This is another trade idea/possibility I have been looking at. Personally, I think the Naz, and many tech and Internet stocks are in the midst of another bubble. They are currently selling at valuation levels well above all historical medians and at levels higher then any previous value...
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    OTM LEAP call calendar spreads - Comments/thoughts?

    This is a trade idea I have been playing around with. The idea is to try and structure a trade that has a very high upside potential with minimal risk for long-term structural/secular trends. Necessary trade conditions to use this: 1. Fundamental - You believe the market/underlying is...
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    Time to go vega positive?

    I would agree. I spent some time the other day looking at stocks with huge short interests and what happened to IV as they gapped up during an apparent short squeeze and/or stocks making parabolic moves up. IV typically increased during these episodes so it definitely seems possible for IV to...
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    Forward volatility calculation.

    Yeah, I've got a couple of them saved in pdf format. I've also got Coulda Woulda Shoulda saved as pdf if you want that also. Send me a private message with your e-mail address and I will send them.
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    Forward volatility calculation.

    Here is an excerpt from an old newsletter of mine which I think addresses the issue/question here. FWIW, the newsletter was the old Saliba newsletter and this was written by one of his trading partners so I am pretty confident this is right. It confirms what Jan is trying to analyze...
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    Time to go vega positive?

    I could not disagree with this statement more strongly, and I find it contradictory to say volatility can be mispriced by the "market" but "valuations" cannot. There is no logical reason to assume that the aggregrate market participants which is "the market" somehow consistently gets pricing...
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    Time to go vega positive?

    Couple of thoughts here because I think this is potentially a dangerous line of thinking because it has the potential to make one give up on the idea of trading options or the opportunities that exist. I really see this as analogous to the line of thinking in equity world which says the...
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    Time to go vega positive?

    Maverick74, Just wanted to post a huge THANK YOU to you for your recent posts. I really appreciate your thoughts. I have a MBA in finance, and have traded options mostly successfully for awhile, and thought I knew just about everything. Reading your posts, I realized I still have more to...
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    Hedge funds of ET members

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    POLL: Which author on options methodologies do you rate most highly?

    What do you mean by this, "info hustlers"? Isn't all writing, or teaching an attempt to convey information?
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    short strangles

    Just wanted to say I am thoroughly enjoying this thread, and I hope you guys keep it going. I am also interested in the possibilities with GreenTree in terms of more liberal margin requirements. I am currently a retail trader at OptionsXpress and although I think their service and platform...
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    Funds Managed by ET members

    ktm, Thanks for your reply <<<<<You will need a CTA registration if you are trading commodity products of any kind, futures or futures options on indexes....as well as some others I probably forgot.>>>>>>> But would you need it if you were only trading equity options? I can't seem to...
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    Funds Managed by ET members

    Here is one I've come up with. Any comments are very welcome. This option strategy is for use with "momentum" stocks with low IV relative to historical IV range. By "momentum" I mean stocks with high valuations relative to sales and earnings, positive estimate revisions, and defined...
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    Funds Managed by ET members

    Hi everyone, Long-time lurker, 1st post. Anyhow, got a question. Let's say I was eventually planning on setting up a hedge fund that primarily traded equity options and strategies involving equities and equity options. Do you have to go the CTA route in that case or does that only...
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