Thanks for all the invaluable assistance and insight you are providing on SA. I am still working my way through your articles, so I apologize if you have addressed this already, but I have the following questions:
- Are you delta-hedging when you put on your iron condor or straddle earnings plays? How much delta are you comfortable with, and does the answer depend on the duration of your trades?
- Do you "backtest" / believe in backtesting? I've read conflicting schools of thought on this, one of which suggests that doing so may only result in curve fitting a system, the other which says there are so many factors which can't practically be modeled that it's a waste of time?
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Thanks for all the invaluable assistance and insight you are providing on SA. I am still working my way through your articles, so I apologize if you have addressed this already, but I have the following questions:
- Are you delta-hedging when you put on your iron condor or straddle earnings plays? How much delta are you comfortable with, and does the answer depend on the duration of your trades?
- Do you "backtest" / believe in backtesting? I've read conflicting schools of thought on this, one of which suggests that doing so may only result in curve fitting a system, the other which says there are so many factors which can't practically be modeled that it's a waste of time?
Thank you.
-J