Benefits of options set and forget strategies

[Guest oilfxpro]

I mainly use set and forget option  strategies using I G options on forex , indices and oil.Last two weeks I made 331 ticks profit.Professional traders aim for 25 ticks a week average, so I am pleased.

 

https://profitabletraders.wordpress.com/amazing-300-ticks-profit-in-2-weeks/

 

I think I am qualified to talk about the road to profitable trading.My trading changed when I started set and forget strategies, using daily and weekly options.I can simply buy the options, set the profit target with a cash trade, and walk away from the screen.It bypassed all the psychological handicaps of the human mind.The main problem, in my view, is trading psychology.

 

I have been working on set and forget strategies for years.Anyone can devise profitable strategies, if they know how.A little improvement on the strategy below can make it profitable, I know how, just wait patiently until I have time.

 

DAX WEEKLY OPTIONS SET AND FORGET STRATEGY https://community.ig.com/t5/Indices-and-Macro-Events/DAX-WEEKLY-OPTIONS-SET-AND-FORGET-STRATEGY/m-p/18914#M1873

 

By using options traders can eliminate the problems with stops getting hit etc.

 

The pros and cons of set-and-forget strategies for online traders Read more: http://www.afr.com/brand/special_reports/online_trading/the-pros-and-cons-of-setandforget-strategies-for-online-traders-20150213-13e5ft#ixzz54CxZQjGu Follow us: @FinancialReview on Twitter | financialreview on Facebook

 

Set and Forget Forex Trading – Keep Your Day Job

 

In the strategy in this link, I had a lot psychological issues with the trade breaking down, if I had employed a set and forget option trade, trading would be easier and more profitable.

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/General-Trading-Strategy/Trend-retrace-system-trade-entry/m-p/19750#M1117

 

 

Trading psychology is 95 % handicap

I spent many years studying trading psychology.

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http://tradingpsychology1.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/best-psychology-threads-youtube-videos.html

 

 DAX WEEKLY OPTIONS SET AND FORGET STRATEGY

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/Indices-and-Macro-Events/DAX-WEEKLY-OPTIONS-SET-AND-FORGET-STRATEGY/m-p/18914#M1873

 

 

[Guest oilfxpro]

Here are today's set and forget trades.

 

Euro is in a up trend  , Dax indices system trades.

 

[Guest oilfxpro]

I closed the eur usd for 26 pips profit

 

My target was 2*risk of 13.5

 

 

[Guest oilfxpro]

Here are examples of set and forget strategies using options.

 

Read more here:

 Dow trend Your best friend

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/Indices-and-Macro-Events/Dow-trend-Your-best-friend/m-p/21166#M2043

 

Eur Usd weekly trade comments

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/FX-and-Cryptocurrency/Eur-Usd-weekly-trade-comments/m-p/21162#M2758

 

Selling dax with weekly options put spread

 

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/Indices-and-Macro-Events/Selling-dax-with-weekly-options-put-spread/m-p/21161#M2042

[Guest oilfxpro]

[Guest oilfxpro]

I  make profit with set and forget strategies, I  lose on cash trading, that is how brains are designed.I have made more workable set and forget strategies, than you will ever find on internet forums  or internet. Most of the cash strategies , that set and forget , are not workable.

 

Most strategies can be made into option set and forget strategy, provided they are not scalping, the instrument has to be very volatile to make money. 

 

I am doing well with options "set and forget strategies", as I explained in this separate thread.The option spreads and using options makes money, but I  give it all back on cash indices and forex. Yesterday I got chopped out on Dow with tight stops, on FX  all week I got chopped out on tight stops, something that you teach is tight stops.

 

Here are  other option set and forget strategies that  I use .

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/forums/replypage/board-id/general-trading-strategy/message-id/1323

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/FX-and-Cryptocurrency/Using-options-on-fx-trading-profit/m-p/19068#M2460

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/Indices-and-Macro-Events/buying-indices-with-option-call-spreads/m-p/21198#M2054

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/Indices-and-Macro-Events/Long-dax-with-call-options/m-p/20655#M2001

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/Indices-and-Macro-Events/Profitable-100-ticks-weekly-Dow-Dax-daily-options-strategy/m-p/15453#M1612

 

I occasionally use long weekly calls at supports or trend lines  on 4 hour charts  in the strategy below

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/Indices-and-Macro-Events/DAX-WEEKLY-OPTIONS-SET-AND-FORGET-STRATEGY/td-p/2256

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest oilfxpro]

Here is my charts from now

 

I don't mess around on oil or fx any more, I  will not use tick charts from next week.Set and forget makes money for me.

 

[Guest oilfxpro]

My set and forget strategies are making money. I was losing oon cash and FX trading.

 

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Last 4 weeks the profit was 508.99 ticks , if I had not traded fx  cash and indices cash where I lost all my profits , the ticks profit would be almost 150 ticks a week only from indices set and forget strategies.

[Guest oilfxpro]

I have gone back from today to my set and forget strategies.

 

Here is open and closed trades.

 

 

 

[Guest oilfxpro]

Today's set and forget trades.

 

Risk 60 ticks , I am psychologically ready for a loss of 60.Mental preparation of a loss is important.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest oilfxpro]

Profit from buy the Dip.

 

 

74 ticks profit

 

Yesterday I lost a few ticks.

[Guest oilfxpro]

Dax support trade for tommorow

 

The dax has given 4 losses in a row , but I still follow the system 20/30  dax dow.

 

 

[Guest trader_1974]

Hello,

 

Can I trade future and options of indices like FTSE, S&P and future and options of stocks like BP, Barclays as well as future and options of forex pairs through IG? Also any idea about minimum amount that I require to take a position for example to buy a FTSE contract at todays/31-Jan-2018 price i.e. £7471 and also to buy a call option of say £7500. Also whats the amount I have to keep if I trader a future and also buy an in the money option of EUR/USD?
Also can all the trades of both future and options be done online or I have to ring customer service?

Many thanks,

trader_1974

[Guest oilfxpro]

Trade closed at profit

Previous trade closed at profit.

 

 

[Guest oilfxpro]

Trader 1974

 

I have answered here on this link

 

https://community.ig.com/t5/General-Trading-Strategy/Trading-STOCK-FTSE-AND-EUR-USD-futures-and-options-online-with-I/m-p/21688#M1384

[JamesIG]

 

wrote:

 

Can I trade future and options of indices like FTSE, S&P and future and options of stocks like BP, Barclays as well as future and options of forex pairs through IG? Also any idea about minimum amount that I require to take a position for example to buy a FTSE contract at todays/31-Jan-2018 price i.e. £7471 and also to buy a call option of say £7500. Also whats the amount I have to keep if I trader a future and also buy an in the money option of EUR/USD?

Also can all the trades of both future and options be done online or I have to ring customer service?

So you can trade all options, bar individual stocks, on the classic dealing platform. You will need to phone deal for an individual stock, however once booked to your account you'll be able to seeing running P&L on your desktop or mobile. 

 

If you buy a call and the future there will note be an offset. To get an exact quote in real time (as these things are variable on the delta) please give one of our dealers a call and they can walk you though the calculation.