I had a pretty basic week in most aspects, earning a small stipend from the market for taking aggressive blows one after the next. It has been an aggressive playing field, I can assure you.
Elroi has been in the shop all week. I started an optimization study on Monday evening, not fully realizing it would take over 90 hours to complete. Once it was two hours into the work, I figured I had gone too far like when you get to the end of your driveway without your cellphone and to, “let the computers work”. Needless to say, I have been trading without my helper robots all week and I am not too pleased with the results. You have no idea the edge you form, until you have traded alongside some algos forged from your own eye-blood, sweat, and tears.
I hope to have these new mods strapped on over the weekend.
I have a big book of call options set to expire next Friday. Most of this premium will likely evaporate, but with a bit of mojo I just may salvage a few pesos:
ANGI 17.50
FSLR 55 & 60
ACAD 26
AAPL 560
GRPN 12
LULU 52.50
GS 165
Z 85 ( I have some March 90 too)
SCTY 77.50
OWW 7.50
To be quite frank, to hell with any evaporated premium at this point, they have already bled out and I have already fought viscously to re-earn the risk capital in other venues, like this EXK trade I am smashing.
Of course, none of this really matters, because all I want right now is to get on with my Valentine Day escapades. If you are holed up in the arctic north with no sweet woma[e]n to spend time with tonight, occupy that time productively by reading through my market profile archives.
Have a good one.
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Dumb question: how about setting up a second computer for special Elroi studies? Perhaps copy over the latest Elroi data to the “Study” machine and run the process there while the main Elroi is free for trading support? I don’t know your current hardware and software setup so don’t know if that’s feasible.
Not dumb, it would actually be quite smart. It’s a software issue. I only have one license for Multicharts where I have coded my algo signals. I could open a tradestation account and transfer the code over pretty painlessly.
Other than a mega winner with LULU and a half decent shot with FSLR 55’s, I think you’re just about fucked on everything else. lol
I like a straight shooter. I agree, and I’m not one to go heavy on the hopium. ON to the next ones. What are we liking?