The Original 180-Day Unusual Whales Alert strategy presented by the one and only Dan Wagner
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0:00 Intro
0:59 Long Whales Do It Better
2:54 Mechanics
4:34 How to track the strategy and opportunities
5:32 Defining positive outcomes
8:28 Defining negative outcomes
10:54 How long before we can get into trades?
12:28 Why wait until 30%?
14:45 Why take profit in the 50-100% range?
17:05 Median time to max gain is 11 days or more
19:15 "Diamond Hands" is a bad strategy inside 6 weeks
21:04 Q&A Start (sorry the audio questions did not come through)
22:51 Q&A Can you review results so far and cover any observations?
26:51 Q&A Examples of missing fills or otherwise not catching the trades on their way up
28:30 Q&A My hypothesis is that whales know which dips to buy and that they also time sector rotations perfectly
32:29 Q&A What prevents us from tracking this ourselves? Nothing
34:47 Q&A How did you decide on the days to expiration groups?
36:00 Q&A Do you buy the same exact option contract? Yes
37:18 Q&A 180 days out or further? Yes
39:40 Q&A 50-100% profit not bad right?
40:55 Q&A Was there any analysis done on durations past 11 days like say 20, 30, 45, etc.?
44:53 Q&A How do I keep track of the gain after the alert for entry and exit?
46:53 Q&A Can we use your spreadsheet for future trades? Of course
47:48 Q&A Do you hold runners?
48:48 Q&A Have you considered diagonals or calendars?
51:20 Q&A Paper trading the strategy
51:56 Q&A Trailing stop losses would be perfect for this
54:38 Q&A High stress vs low stress
55:34 Q&A Is this strategy slow-moving?
56:45 Q&A Is it possible to see when the whale exists?
58:01 Q&A Like swing trading with longer-dated options
59:04 Q&A Where can we find the powerpoint?
59:57 Q&A Short-term options vs long-term options
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