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Hi Bobby, are you aware of the new Study from Tastytrade regarding the portfolio allocation to strangles? I think its the first time they provide actual capital curves. This is the third section and it includes basically your strategy selling strangles and managing and allocation of 25 % So...

Wow thank you so much for this tip!!! The Wall Street Warriors "lost season" that has finally surfaced! I so much love to watch this: Slick guys in suits talking money, sunglasses, houses in the Hamptons. This is so ridicoulous. And now Tom and Tony inbetween! This is so much fun. Lets see how...

Yes its similar. Sigma is short for standard deviation. Six Sigma relates to the percentage of defect-free products a manufacturing process creates. A six sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of all opportunities to produce some feature of a part are statistically expected to be free of...

https://www.soa.org/Library/Newsletters/Risks-And-Rewards/1998/October/rar-1998-iss31-chandrashekaran.aspx Is this the paper? It states that the 87 crash was a 20 sigma event. Brexit is considered a 12 sigma event in GBUSD (I had a short naked position). SPX not so much. Source with several...

Its not about increasing winning percentage. wins and losses net out over time as you buy or sell markets not stocks and ultimately you earn from the premium. thats the concept. Instead of giving iyour 250 k to a mutual fund. Trading thats what you do with only 12 % of your portfolio. Maybe you...

Yes, quite an unpleasant day. I think the holy grail is structuring a portfolio with several strategies to make it immune against vol spikes instead of relying on one strategy. The core strategy should be set up in advance of all other strategies and the basic thought behind is that traders...

Hi Bobby and all, I am new to the forum and I am following this thread from the very beginning as I am quite interested in this experiment. I was following Tastytrade and employing quite a similar strategy as you do but the many statements of experienced option traders in this thread got me...