scose-no-doubt
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no but they're m/m gain on total segregated funds I believe
What will HowardCohodas's month on month return be for March?
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arabianights
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I do believe, incidentally, Howard, that this makes my guess the closest!
Prize please 🙂
Prize please 🙂
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What was the promised prize again?
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It's a return on risk per trade (R) if I remember rightly.
So counting it all up, about 0.55R total.
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Simply put, I ran out of cash to buy back all the spreads that exceeded 20% loss on capital at risk.
I was too slow to increase my cash reserves as many here advised me to do. I could have moved cash from another account but chose not to. I wanted this account to reflect the experiences, both success and trader folly. Being a purist sometimes costs money, but the lesson gets cemented more firmly.
The graph represents this account in isolation. So the month on month return of -21.1% means that this account balance at the end of March was 21.1% below the amount it was at, at the end of Feb.
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Hmmm. I would think the guess of -25% (marcusant) would be closer than yours which was -15%. However you deserve some credit for having more faith in my abilities than was justified by the results. What to do? What to do? 😀
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A free lesson.........
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I don't believe I ever specified. Any thoughts?
scose-no-doubt
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What about a treadmill desk from that firm you rep for?
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Unfortunately, I never set up any relationship with that firm; representative, affiliate, or anything else. The only affiliate relationship I currently have is with Amazon.com.
scose-no-doubt
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doing what?
Martinghoul
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The only thoughts I got on the subject are not fit for a public airing...
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I have a website devoted to my self defense, personal responsibility stuff that I teach occasionally. I have links there for products that I use myself. Should someone buy from Amazon as a consequence of clicking through the website, I get a small fee.
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Ouch! 🙁
Martinghoul
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Why? It's nothing nasty and personal having to do with you, Howard...
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My bad. 😱
kimo'sabby
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Yeh, you've been trying to get around this problem with options. You seem to be doing ok up to now.
Market direction....it's a real bummer (for you).
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HowardCohodas
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The strategy seems to have performed as expected. The trader (me) failed. I made things worse by not moving quickly enough to enough cash to buy back all spreads expiring at the same time. A truly humbling experience.
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As long as you are in control of losses....wots the problem? Don't be hard on yourself. You've done good.
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Thanks. It's my nature to be hardest on myself.
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