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#1 diogenes227

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Posted 02 April 2018 - 06:55 PM

From the Link:

 

 

Probably should say something about the first quarter in this "fool's game" just for the record... There were 62 trading days in the quarter with 40 of them profitable for a win rate of 64%.  Not going to say how much it made overall (everyone would say "oh, come on, that can't be!") but think about these numbers... As I said above there were 14 big winners of 100% or more.  The biggest winner in the calls was 252% on 3/9.  The biggest winner in the puts was 265% on 2/2.  The biggest winning week was the week of 2/5 to 2/9 at 650% and the biggest losing week was 3/12 to 3/16 for a negative 208% (obviously one does not trade this strategy with one's entire account).

All of this is simply buying calls or puts as day-trades.

 

For much more discussion and the chart:

 

Buying calls and puts in a "fool's game" of "dailies"


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#2 viccarter

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Posted 02 April 2018 - 07:53 PM

Nice work, although the key is, do I buy a call or a put.  Always needs to be a strategy for that.



#3 dTraderB

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Posted 03 April 2018 - 06:46 AM

impressive