Recent content by enigmatics

I've always said the same thing and that goes for other mainstream things retail traders/investor look to for guidance.:thumbsup:

Just read through this entire thread out of boredom and not going to lie ..... I'm still laughing about the $8.36 profit for every $1.00 loss. :lol: God bless the interwebz.

I used to want to be able to do that, alas every trader's "time opportunity costs" are different for the capital they're using. I happen to be a swing trader and I love to identify those spots where the accumulation is taking place "under the creek" as Richard Wykoff would say. I let the...

If you're referring to Market Profile vs. Volume Profile my own personal preference is for VP. Regardless the "time" function Robster mentioned is more akin to how "measured moves" work in trading. Even if you don't have an understanding of the time variable, it's very important you at least...

Respect your opinion, but candlesticks can lie and that is why institutional money hopes you stare at them intently. There is a "structure" behind every candle, every move, every pattern. It tells the story of supply/demand. By simply looking at candles a trader is only getting a third of the...

Great thread Robster! I trade in very similar fashion .... albeit I'm a swing trader. People following along should also read up on Buy or Sell Climaxes that Richard Wyckoff once detailed. It'll help them understand the concepts you've presented. Once traders start viewing trade setups...

I've never declared it an asset class. While I'm not an elite options trader, I still factor in the greeks. I am definitely a student of volume as I have mentioned previously multiple times. I also don't recall saying anywhere that options have been taking my arm off. I had gone over a year...

This is true. At first it wasn't like that, but it eventually started manifesting. The wide spread is a killer, particularly in tight intraday ranges. This then makes it an issue of whether it's better to use DITM for a swing directional trade. I've been married to day trading for so long...

All my trades are based on signals I get from where a stock price is in relation to it's volume profile (not volume histogram), VWAP, and sometimes includes divergence in a specific indicator I use (the ONLY time I ever use them). But let's just say for example I get the signal I want at the...

How can I know the answer without already having traded Forex/Futures?

I do not have the capital base to trade AAPL shares. 'Tis why I went for the options. Going deep in the money a month out also allowed me to trade it almost as if I was trading the stock because the delta was high (usually .70-.80) and the theta low (.19-.30) It also kept the comms down...

Come for advice and I get some snide remark about flipping my strat upside down. OK bud! Clearly you paint with a broad stroke and do not understand the problems I've been having trying to trade deep in the money options with wide spreads on a stock that suddenly trades in small ranges every...

Hitting a wall with options and debating trading futures. Advice? In 2012 I made the switch full-time from stocks to trading options. I focused exclusively on AAPL weeklies (current week) and directional trading. What drew me to them in the first place was AAPL's intraday range and the low...