Sunday, March 8, 2020

"Anything thing can happen at any time" ... and today it did!

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Coronavirus craziness abounds ... I was a bit shocked on Friday after oil sold off 9% but today after the market opened at 3pm PST, down ano...
Friday, February 28, 2020

R.I.P Traderbot; Mistakes were made; A very wild week in the market

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First, my efforts to try changing around the traderbot by tweaking parameters: Waiting 1 or 2 minutes between changes of direction exce...
Friday, February 21, 2020

A beautiful theory struck down by annoying data

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The million-dollar traderbot needs work: ES,SLD,1,3364.75,11:51:57,20200218,GLOBEX,U354...,, ES,BOT,1,3365.25,11:52:21,20200218,GLOBE...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Interactive Brokers *finally* unstuck; projecting up about 10% this coming week

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I finally got my final problem resolved with Interactive Brokers,  a "known bug" that I reported and the phone support person said...
Saturday, February 8, 2020

First live trade on Sunday; Volatility mostly collapsed again; Interactive Brokers challenges

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My first client is going live with the Dynamic Covered Strangle on Sunday when the futures market opens ... unfortunately /ES volatility is ...
Sunday, February 2, 2020

Going live with the Dynamic Covered Strangle plan this week, just in time for volatility's return!

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Volatility in the S&P Futures market returned this week with a vengeance: This means that the options on this futures product (/ES, ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Straight up market finally pauses; Traderbot is in testing with a Python IB library that works! Minding the gap

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Friday's market down move was blamed on the coronavirus now troubling China ... But: who knows? The market has been going mostly up f...