I disagree as well. You cap your losses and only a fool holds for the full loss all the way to expiration. Conversely in the 80% or so of the...
Don't sell naked options, ever. In a week or less you can double or triple your money. In fact you can make 10x your money on a trade and in a...
Stocks are trending up or down maybe at most 30% of the time and the rest of the time they languish. Options allow a trader to profit in all...
I limit losses to 1 % of capital. I give a trade room and by this I mean 50% of amount at risk and Im out. No deviation. I want to make 100% on...
Combo orders are definately preferable as a long term practice. I am sometimes willing to pay the spread if its a volatile stock and the...
JWCapital: I agree thats one way of doing it where you buy a straddle but you need a bigger move to offset the losing side. I typically...
I too am watching the IV on google as it heads south from the 29-30 down to 24 and am looking for that 20-21 number as one signal that its...
I was looking at FAS and FAZ today. One thing I noticed while watching the option chain was that while FAS was down less than a dollar...
Here is how I played Google. I own 100 shares in my account. I had a nice run up this year and when it fell like a rock I bought a 600 long term...
thanks for the advice. I appreciate it.
Hi everyone. I am new to this forum and in real life I don't have anyone to bounce ideas off of. I think I have found an edge and would like...
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