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@universaller, ty for the updates and good luck with your new ventures. It sounds like your oil trade has paid off handsomely. And it's good to pivot to something new - trading will always be there - esp. if we get another commodity super-cycle to put on another levered oil stock bet to put on...

It's good to hear from you and congrats on your gains. Sounds like you're off to a roaring start in 2023!

My main critique of someone like Ms.Lyn Alden is that she reminds me of all of the talking heads on financial podcasts on Real Vision, Hedge Eye, TastyLive etc. Talk so much macro like "here are the historical trends of when the Fed raised rates in the 70's" or the "supply chain" or...

QQ for everybody how do you guys do the restart if IBKR is enforcing that 2FA? For me, my current setup is manual. I have a one-click job on my cloud VM that restarts my entire Gateway and also my trading bot. (But it's manual, everyday when I get to my desk I have to restart it manually so I...

Thank you for postin' and amazing performance in this difficult year. +15.95% in a year when SPY and QQQ is down big... is what distinguishes true traders/investors from the herd!

My hedge puts are usually about 60 days out and I roll 'em out before 30 days out. Vol is very high but on any major rallies, I look to try to roll 'em and pay through the nose. Am I just flushing money down the toilet, most likely YES. But I'm happier hedged than being sorry and gettin'...

Hang in there, a pretty flat week for me whilst the indices soared. A combination of my hedges losing power and upside hurtin' some long-dated calls I sold. YTD: 16.08%; Trailing 1M: -2.52%. But I'm still happy about trading - I've made a lot of progress this month on working through my data...

Hang in there! I lost bigly as well last week... around -3K (-0.77%) which is big for my small account. IBKR havin' trouble renderin' 1W benchmarks... so here's my trailing 2W return. YTD return stands at 16.02%.

Hang in there everybody... I lost bigly last two weeks too; and I don't even have that big of an account to justify the loss. >You speak of probability. The reason I bring up the last 2 weeks specifically. Is exactly for that reason, this has been some of the highest probability trading days...

Just want to say your posts are an inspiration... and truly an example of that a bamboo tree could takes years to take root but then grow very fast in 3 months. Not many people stick to trading for this long and not many people stick out for this long with this amazin' performance. But I can...

Hi Matt, Sorry about the late reply (I had been out interviewing for a new job). I'm hesitant to give you exact parameters as everybody's strategies are different and therefore your hedges as well. But I'll try to give color but understand your hedging might be different depending on how...

Just relating to how a similar strategy did, last week I was saved by the hedging puts I bought for my thetagang positions on the relief rally we saw prior - that smoothed out my returns. Return vs. benchmarks are respectively: Account: +0.20%; BRK.A: -3.56%; SPY: -4.78%; QQQ: -5.79%. That was...

Amazin' results for the last week. Here's mine from last week (think u beat me and I'm also beat significantly by all the benchmarks). 7D: +2.09%; 1M: +3.69%; YTD: +19.69% Keep up the good work! Hopefully we have a good Sept and Oct (historically very volatile times in the markets).

It is a portfolio margin account. My daily theta has been fluctuating depending on my risk tolerance - currently around 380 (low end) But hovers around 350-600 dependin' on the market situation haha.

For sure. Ty for ur posts... it's good to always hear from you - good or bad; so long as one keeps learning and didn't lose it all, I consider everybody blessed and rich lol. For what it's worth, I hover around the same weight but I do no peruse any drug usage. So I will not join u in posting...

Just piggbacking on MattK's journal (as I trade primarily similar strategy, thetagang and also a bit of pairs trading). My weekly performance(+0.32%); YTD: 17.11%: main portfolio is blue, benchmarks are the other colors in ascending performance, BRK.A, SPY, QQQ This year has been very...

My original post was unclear as I was very caffeinated, sleep-deprived and workin' hard on my computer at the same time and didn't bring the context. Mr. Calhoun, if you go on his website - the only verifiable thing he has on there is a single line on his Fidelity statement sayin' he traded...

QQ, what is Ken Calhoun's track record/equity curve? I only see on his website that he traded $41 million worth of stock and ETFs. I'm not impressed b/c my cost basis this year thus far trading SPX spreads has been $13 million (super EZ to rack up big # even on a small account, if you're...

Congratulations! Great work, you beat me again on both dollar and percent-wise. Weekly performance: +1.49% (way behind benchmark of BRK.A's 5.15% YTD performance: +12.41%

You picked not a very good Death cab song. They have so many great tracks to choose from... Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cuties is by far their best song... it is a song about long distance relationship (Transatlantic relationship), but it might as well as be the isolation people feel in...