If this blog was about Trump or Obama, the comments section would quickly fill with shills telling me how wrong or right I am.
But since I’m broaching the subject of trading, all of you faggots will remain silent. And then you have the stones to give me a hard time about news blogging.
You’re god damned monsters.
At any rate, what is your favorite trading strategy? I’m doing some research and want to know what the layman, housing tenement, miscreant does with his money.
No models will be laughed at. I eagerly await your fucking comments.
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Scalp sharp intraday moves that trigger stops, wait for vix to rage…trade market inefficiencies. Roll profits into multifamily properties and local bars. Rinse, repeat.
What if you could beat the market without needing to time the market?
What if you could earn extraordinary returns without the pressure of finding the right stocks to own?
Using a hidden asset class in the market, you can get an edge that hedgefunds wish they could touch, but can’t.
That’s because they’re too big. In fact, most of the time they’re on the other side of the trade.
This magical little asset is known as volatility. And you can use options to sell volatility, taking risk off the hands of these funds and getting paid richly for it.
Using just a handful of strategies you can build aggressive and sustainable wealth while keeping your risk low.
A good strategy to look at is an iron condor. This trade makes money based off a range rather than trying to guess where the market goes next.
Now if you’re on this blog you’ve probably heard about this strategy. You may have traded it.
Odds are you’ve lost money from it.
Most iron condor traders do.
Our iron condor trading framework is exceptional because it manages risk aggressively, and it leads to returns like this:
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This strategy has been “forward-tested,” with real money, through a China currency crash to the downside and a post-election euphoria to the upside.
And anyone can trade it. In fact, one of my clients who learned iron condors from me now operates all the trade alerts for me.
So yeah, that’s my favorite trading strategy.
Hold my finger over the “buy NQ market” button and click really really fast. Been working great!
Mean reversion for stock relative to it’s sector index, excluding deviations from earnings or press releases obviously.
Also pairs trading with the same combination. Also got into to selling Covered Vix calls toward the end of 2015. Free money.
I haven’t been allowed to trade for over a year because of work and exposure to “material non-public information” whatever that means. Damn commies.
slow stoch
I follow OA and watch trades blowup in my face because I tend to over leverage on the losers.
Also I buy stock in companies you repeatedly pound the table on, think FTK. Also, I still own a few shares of MVIS from way way back. They’ll make money someday, right?
My strategy is to hold lots of cash earning 0% interest while holding short positions so that I can enjoy the coming collapse.
Scalp bond and index futures.
Swing/position trade stocks w profits.
I do not like copy cats so I posted my very original strategy in Exodus so all these plebes on the iBankCoin side don’t front run my shit
Those positions must be huge, damn. Nice!
Buy volatility compression near low. ANything like ATR declining at 50 day lows or slow stochastics declining at lows or narrow range of 3+ days without a 1% move on high beta stocks or however you care to come up with consolidation patterns.
Finally an answer. Thanks Hat
Be a piker.Buy cheap cos. without much debt-like buying houses that just look bad.
Hope the neighborhood improves so you can cash out.
Looking for compression after a big move, usually lower, that has potential to resolve higher. Basically looking for near term bottoms, buying falling wedges or symmetrical triangles.
https://www.tradingview.com/x/t1T9iGjv/
Exodus oversold signals on above average shorted stocks in industries that are pro trump. I love it when the fly broad-spectrums the landscape of the world and points arrows up and down for various industries. It gives me direction. Not being a full time trader, I dont have the time to dive into the intricacies of a plethora of sectors. Plus golf season is back in full swing and obviously taking 100$ off my guys is way more important than the 1k I lost during the round.
I am a swing trader since I still overwhelmingly rely on full time income from a bloated bureaucracy (corporation) and can’t watch the market all day.
So I use 50 period moving average on the hourly chart and trade the trend reversals. I use volume profile (thanks, OA) to try and pick moves that have some juice. Trading is hard.
I buy stocks according to my impeccable grasp of global macro affairs, if there happens to be a slew of political policies I agree with, I’ll load the boat on the stocks that reflect that bias and opinion. Of all hedge fund strategies, global macro is by far the best performing with the highest edge.
My strategy is fucking simple.
I buy low, then sell high!
I don’t know why no one out there does anything else. It’s too easy to pass up.
Now that I have spilled the beans, everyone will be copying me and ruin my fool proof strategy.
Great fucking post!
Most trading strategies I have used so successfully in the past do not work any longer. Relative strength, gaming breadth, buying/selling at moving averages have all become a waste of time and no longer work. I am starting to use more market neutral option strategies because stocks have become too efficient and tough to game.
Longer term themes and trading with those in mind seem okay as well. Basically buying the masters of the universe (amzn/goog/fb/tsla) on pullbacks, and having short exposure in bonds and reits.
i look into whatever find interesting , price action that i do not expect , then follow some base rules .. eventually i end being up more figures in a year , and when i wow i loose ( may be half)
working on that
my pick is very good , my tp strategy is very bad , for a mix of greed and optimism
Trade my nq levels, risk around 10, target 4.5 and 6 points. If I have a working hypo in play, keep a runner.
Otherwise buy-and-hold the GARP and the top-down concoctions using Motif to easily achieve balanced weighting.
Fading VIX long ETF’s on major volatility spikes. I look for multi day stretches north of the upper Bollinger, weakening daily volume in VXX as price goes up, and ‘market crash’ sentiment.
V high probability trade but you have to wait for it. Sometimes only a few times a year.
this is great. how do you gain short exposure on the etfs? stock, short calls or buy puts?
I do a hybrid greater fool theory strategy. Focus on tech stocks showing high relative strength (but making sure I like the story–there are certain subsectors of the tech industry that I wont touch such as Chinese or cyclical techs).
Yeah, you typically have to pay up (they are rarely value plays) and it certainly doesn’t take rocket science to find them. But since most investors/funds these days are concentrated in the same small universe of growth stocks, I count on the greater fools out there to bid them up for me.
I stay away from commodities, gold, oil, etc. Just too finicky.
Try to determine if really shitty companies will continue being a going concern. AKA catching knives.
whatever method makes money. It’s good to have a system and a set of rules, but I have found you need to know when the party is over and it’s not working anymore. The algos are out there to capture this behavior and eventually make money off it. Always gotta stay frosty. I’ve even seen OA’s methods from 2013-2014 with particular patterns start to behave a bit differently.
Well, let me tell you what I’m not doing. I now ignore people who sell subscription trading services. I have invented my own trading system and it is very profitable and reliable. It took a long while but I finally have it figured out. Good luck finding your own system.