Manish71

@Bullfighter if you are looking for auto-trading, you should check out the auto trading platform of Option Alpha.

@cwelsh @Kim, the "qualified client" requirement is certainly a hurdle in investing in the fund. So I wanted to ask if the Anchor subscription service will kind of mimic the returns of the Anchor hedge fund ? Thanks.

@Djtux For a calendar one of the criteria is when the RV of the current cycle is below the average RV. So in the chart below, can we have a email alert from volatilityhq when the RV of the current cycle falls below the average RV like on T-24 ? It will give alerts for the tickers you specify. Is this possible ? Thanks.

Hello, I am reading this thread from start to finish multiple times and had a basic question below with IBM as an example. 1) With the strangle credit below (18), if the RV charts of the previous cycles are kind of flat from T-18 to T-1 like below, does it mean IBM is a good candidate for a short strangle using the straddle chart below ? 2) If the current cycle RV is less than the median or mean RV at T-18 and also if previous RV cycles were rising up to T-0 on a calendar chart, then IBM is a good candidate for a calendar instead of a short strangle. 3) If the RV of the previous cycles show a change of more than 10% on the straddle chart below instead of flat, then IBM is a good candidate for a long straddle ?

"I've implemented both the 'min RV for the current cycle', as well as the average and the percentile." Where can I find this ? I looked around in "Settings", and on individual calendar charts but could not see this. Thanks.

Would these new forums be part of the existing membership or would they be needing an additional subscription ? Thanks.

You can open a separate Gmail account for steady options. In the email list itself you can see which emails are trades and which are discussions. You can open the trade emails only.

All their back testing is during low volatility times during last few years. So we have to see how the trade ideas work out during high vol regime.

Probably not a good time to sell premium since SPX vol is only 23%.

They have $160 billion under management, so those strategies have to be on very liquid tickers.

I am wondering do these hedge funds use option strategies to get these kind of returns last year: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bridgewater-apos-pure-alpha-fund-230000726.html

If you don't mind can you please tell how do you push email from the Gmail app (I have it on my iphone) to text message on my phone ? Also how do you do the push alarm for gmail app ? Thanks.

CMLViz has added technical triggers in the backtesting tool. It will be interesting to see what kind of results the trades taken after using the technical triggers give now.

I was reading the pros and cons of using Section 475(f) to qualify as a trader. What do people here generally do in terms of this ? Below is a good article I found : https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2014/jul/sec-475-election-20149537.html

@Yowster, For ETFs how does one play the option strategies ? Like you mentioned above the only parameter one can look at is the IV. I guess the risk might be less but the rewards will be less also trading ETFs. Is that the reason SO does not do ETF trades ?