You need to open your eyes and learn from the past. Your risk of ruin with those goals is very likely. Even with 4:1 leverage ruination is still possible. Your goal from a retail position isn't viable in the long-term.
As I clearly wrote there, I had not traded any futures nor their options yet, as I'm specialised on equity options; the FOPs are new to me, also seeing any options trading AH.For someone who ask so many basic questions about the market that even a newbie would be able to look up on google in 5 minutes (Does ES trade after hours??), now you want to make 30% a month....
Both.are you trading volatility
or leveraged delta?
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I'm no more doing any daytrading, I just concentrate myself on the expiration Friday.
And: short options are "Like Ice in the Sunshine"...
Ie. time is your friend: you profit even if the underlying doesn't make any move...
Say you are in the negatives, then just wait some hours and you will see a better result.
Of course it's not that simple, I'm also doing some scale-in, ie. averaging...
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If a position of mine is say 10% in the negatives then I don't close it, I rather make use of the time decay, and increase the position even more...
Both.
Ie. whichever gives the most profit, because one can calc the profit in advance
--> just take the credit and set that in relation to the marginreq then you know how profitable it will be....
But this is a very simplified answer. There are of course some more things to take take into consideration...
But I of course can't disclose my method here.