who is the best options trader in this forum ?

ironchef said:
But watch out, take some $ off the table when you are able to.

Just like buy and hold SPY beats fancy hedge fund for the last several years. We look like geniuses, until the market turns bad, then the professional traders, the MBA, PhD economists, quants will rule.

Regards,
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Yes we have to be careful this is real money I sell everytime I have a profit then repeat for compounding
 
ironchef said:
Welcome to the club. Actually, after a couple of years going at it, everything became just numbers on a piece of paper. The greed and fear of winning and losing were replaced by the joy of pursuing the puzzles of winning and losing trades.
Good luck and enjoy your journey.
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Its already beginning to look like that. The numbers are becoming meaningless. I just a have a weekly aim that I target and as long I meet that goal, I'm content.

The puzzle part is definitely the most fun about this. Hedging between and against 3 or 4 instruments. Things that weren't correlating suddenly starts moving together and doing pair hedging (Crude and Natural Gas). It definitely is an mega-economic puzzle to be worked at.
 
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sle said:
When I was 8, I was working a local paper route over the summer. I had a choice of employment at a local boutique ice cream parlor instead, but I felt that experience in public service might yield better career perspectives. Alas, it was not to be. One day, while throwing a copy of Hicksville Report into Mrs. Patterson's yard, I saw a crumbled green piece of paper on the sidewalk. It was a $50 dollar bill. Instead of buying myself some weed and a Playboy magazine, I opened an account at Interactive Brokers. The rest is history.
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Other than throwing the copy of the area newspaper at Mrs Patterson, I am very curious to hear about any other interactions you might have ended up having with the good lady. Obviously, when you were quite a bit older and had access to all those massive returns you were able to generate...
 
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qxr1011 said:
what are the terms of the challenge?
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Who has the biggest, daily average % gains o_O, :wtf: over the course of a week/month/year/two years.
Pretty straight-forward. The bottom line, performance delivery metric -- what else is there in life,

2018
 
lawrence-lugar said:
Who has the biggest, daily average % gains o_O, :wtf: over the course of a week/month/year/two years.
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what is that for the involved?

i would understand if for example the OP and the challenger each would deposit an escrow of 100K in some account and the winner get the sum

also not clear how the challenge will be conudcted

probably each op and the challenger should each open account with 100k (playing money) at independent broker who can monitor progress over the time lets say a quarter

something like that
 
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Martinghoul said:
Other than throwing the copy of the area newspaper at Mrs Patterson, I am very curious to hear about any other interactions you might have ended up having with the good lady. Obviously, when you were quite a bit older and had access to all those massive returns you were able to generate...
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She was probably too old by then.
 
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