Recent Content by bluesdave

  1. Reverse Call or Put Calendar Spreads--Who uses this strategy?

    Point taken Spin.
    Post by: bluesdave, Feb 27, 2010 in forum: Options

  2. Reverse Call or Put Calendar Spreads--Who uses this strategy?

    NO PROBLEM. YOU'RE JUST NOT SEEING THE MECHANICS NOR THE TIMING, NOR THE REACTION OF THE CALLS TO THE MOVEMENT OF THE UNDERLYING OR THE IV....
    Post by: bluesdave, Feb 25, 2010 in forum: Options

  3. Reverse Call or Put Calendar Spreads--Who uses this strategy?

    spindr - thanks for your rockin explanation. For instance - I'm not trading in a margin approved account and can't sell naked anything....
    Post by: bluesdave, Feb 24, 2010 in forum: Options

  4. Reverse Call or Put Calendar Spreads--Who uses this strategy?

    Okay, let me try it this way, Either way, thanks for trying spndr. Early assignment is the best thing that could happen because that would...
    Post by: bluesdave, Feb 24, 2010 in forum: Options

  5. Reverse Call or Put Calendar Spreads--Who uses this strategy?

    First let me apologize for asking so many questions. But something about this concerns me. I'm asking in context of the April / June...
    Post by: bluesdave, Feb 24, 2010 in forum: Options

  6. Changing my thinking...

    spindr0 - Am I correct in assuming that you would sell the Feb on Thursday and buy it back on Friday as all of the IV exhausted overnight?
    Post by: bluesdave, Feb 24, 2010 in forum: Options

  7. Reverse Call or Put Calendar Spreads--Who uses this strategy?

    Question - If I'm buying the front month and selling the back I'm getting a credit up front. Great. But am I missing something? If the...
    Post by: bluesdave, Feb 23, 2010 in forum: Options

  8. Expiration week trades, let's hear 'em

    Gazelle, I've attached the picture from TOS - thinkback. Hopefully I've used it correctly. 2/16 trade date, 3.15 debit, 530/540/550 butterfly...
    Post by: bluesdave, Feb 23, 2010 in forum: Options

  9. Expiration week trades, let's hear 'em

    Post by: bluesdave, Feb 23, 2010 in forum: Options

  10. Changing my thinking...

    Hi everyone, I'm starting to change my thinking of options from regarding them as a gamble that they will go in the right direction to a...
    Thread by: bluesdave, Feb 23, 2010, 4 replies, in forum: Options

  11. sanity check

    Sure - life never works in maximums and minimums, just increments in between. That said, those are the only two variables I'm getting my head...
    Post by: bluesdave, Feb 22, 2010 in forum: Options

  12. sanity check

    Hi all - long time listener, first time advise seeker. Let's say I have $360 and I'm a little bullish on google. I'd like to buy a 550 call...
    Thread by: bluesdave, Feb 22, 2010, 13 replies, in forum: Options

  13. Iron Condor question

    Okay - while I appreciate the effort of responses - I have two problems. MTE - Concentrate on the put - I have bought 14 and sold 13 dollar...
    Post by: bluesdave, Jun 22, 2009 in forum: Options