For those of you who have never witnessed 900%+ implied volatility, check out DJT. In fact, the 2.5 Puts "expiring" this week with the underlying...
Much appreciated. Thanks for the clarification. I would definitely need to "reprogram" myself for the first example as I am not used to selling...
"Long OTM flies (long g, all otm) with the distant wing in another duration, etc." What would be a real world example of this using SPX?...
It looks like Roaring Kitty may have closed out most of his June 21 Calls. Over 90,000 contracts traded, most of them late in the day. For his...
It's not pointless. He is not understanding this situation 100%. Furthermore, there are people lurking the board who do not understand it 100%....
I'm away from this place momentarily and come back to unhinged chaos. :D Now, you guys behave or I'm gonna turn this car right around!
I believe I understand the basics of the Safe Harbor Rule. Pay 90% of this year's tax or 100% (or 110% if income over 150K) of last year's tax....
"Interactive Brokers also has some arbitrary rule whereby establishing a position cannot exceed your account equity multiplied by 30." Can anyone...
Then I should be asking you, "What's the craic?"!:D If you truly can arb, I would attempt this in reverse. (More risk, of course) If the quotes...
I am far from being one of the experts out here, but here are a few observations: 1) If possible, I would try to negotiate away those exercise...
When you tried to buy to close the spread, you kept increasing the price from 87.95 to a higher and higher price all the way up to the high 99s?
So this is what happened: You bought 5 15,800 Calls, sold 5 15,700 Calls as a spread order and received 99.95 or $9,995 * 5 for a total of a...
Did you actually have $6,000 in profit or was the system inaccurately displaying $6,000 in profit. Can you tell us specifically what you did?...
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