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Only 30 Minutes Into Cash Session and Taking the $970 Profit (8/25)
The previous post was not quite understandable for some readers. Therefore a quick note before I went through every single step I took: \- I rely on charting and primarily on key levels/metrics on /ES combined with probabilities / statistics. \- I do not use a bunch of indicators, I …
Anyone loading up on VIX calls going into November?
VIX hitting 15 right now seems to be a massive buying opportunity for broad volatility going into Nov midterms Some cheap insurance going into a lot of uncertainty IMO
Company exit. Need advice
Hello. I am exiting a management role within Tesla, and by doing so have been given 30 days to exercise my stock options position. I have 169 shares, with a exercise price of 231.28, current stock price hovers around $350. When I preview the sale, I get this breakdown, but …
AMA: I'm a day trader who spent 5 years and my life savings building a gamified day trading platform
AMA - I'll be answering questions starting from August 25th at 6pm PDT to 11pm PDT. If questions are still coming when we hit the end, I'll keep going. Ask me anything - the build, the legal side, the money, the failures, day trading in general. Hello everyone, I'm c0tt0nc4ndyta, …
SPX/ES Pre-Market Levels Held All Session — Missed a Planned Fill by $0.05, Still Closed +$362 on a
Monday's session (8/24) was a good example of levels doing exactly what they said they'd do, even when the trade plan built around them didn't fully execute. **Pre-market read:** \- ES overnight resistance at 7680 (SPX ≈ 7663) — the level that mattered most for the day. A clean break …
Is retail trading dead right now?
So, I haven't traded Options for several months now (either paper or live). Today, I decided to try my hand at paper trading again and boy did I get a shock. I tried to place several trades including in SPY, QQQ, XSP and **not one** of them got filled. These …
An Option Hedged Market Neutral Strategy
I have developed this strategy and have run it for 3 months. It performed pretty well. \[CORE\_IDEA\] * In a pool of stocks, find M ones to long and N to short (M roughly equals to N) * For each stock above, no matter long or short, use \[SINGLE\_STOCK\_HEDGE\] to …
Options Questions Safe Haven periodic megathread | August 24 2026
We *call* this the weekly Safe Haven thread, but it might stay up for more than a week. For the options questions you wanted to ask, but were afraid to. **There are no stupid questions.** **Fire away.** This project succeeds via thoughtful sharing of knowledge. **You, too, are invited …
GEX is a scam please dont waste your time
stop wasting your time with GEX and DEX - they are literally scams. they sound really cool and make intuitive sense until you actually look at the underlying assumptions and then the data surrounding them. i have because i was really interested in them myself. the purpose of this post …
On the predictive power of GEX/Max pain vs a Martingale for SPX 0DTE
There has been a general uptick in chatter around gex as a predictive metric and various services being launched to offer the calculation. I carried out a study using the SPX 0dte data from Massive and Databento. The study runs over a 13 month horizon from June 2025 to July …