Re:Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finishe...
by mrhichem on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:57AM
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Thank you for your valuable feedback and questions.
Indeed some ETF are not showing although they are in the DB, needs checking.
- An entry box is something to add, thanks for pointing out.
- Real-time data from Tradier is costly. I was looking at IBKR and maybe I will switch to their API. But anyhow real-time is an overkill for now, maybe in the future.
- Yes for entering orders, I use Tastyworks. I first validate the opportunities with real time data and enter the trade on the Tastyworks platform.
- I actually made decent profits from selling Theta. The trick is to not overtrade and be ok if a week passes without making a trade.
But my main investing strategy is a Buy and hold on a world index.
Couple of comments:
- I also have a 9-5 and 2 kids, so totally understand how hard it is to do side projects beyond work. Congrats!
- The filters might be hiding this somehow, but I didnt find ETFs i'd expect like the SPY ETFs or GLD, etc, even though I set off all the filters
- The Strike should have a slider and an entry box ideally because some strikes go into single digits or way beyond the scale, the slider is too restrictive in 5s for low-priced stocks and the max is too low for things like TSLA
- The table header really needs to be aligned with the sort arrows, I cant tell which column i'm sorting on
- You noted that "Prices are updated every 3 hours" -- did you price out DO costs if you used real-time data from Tradier? I imagine you might have more bandwidth, but it would probably be reflective of a more active screening approach. I found good theta selling opportunities dont come that often and I usually look at the vol surface for IV bumps through the day.
- As a follow-up to the above, curious if you use it as a screener and then enter orders manually or auto-execute? Would you auto-execute really rich opportunities?
- Curious if you've actually made money selling theta. I've made money, but I do believe that just buy-and-hold would be more profitable in most cases because you miss so much upside on option writing strategies unless you have a clear band with high conviction