My suggestion is drink a beer and relax and stop trying to point out flaws in other people's posts This couldn't be further from the truth as...
A little testy when someone questions you? For your information I have priced these in my head with people screaming at me, I was a market maker...
With all due respect Maverick, you need to brush up on your synthetics. You wrote: Yes you could that but by being long both the 95 call and...
I obviously didn't explain what I meant clear enough. I'm not advocating fly's in the back months. I wanted to point out that the fly that you...
Maverick, the position you explained is a good one. I just wanted to add that you dont have to sell the straddle and buy the strangle in the...
Meteoxx and Trajan are correct. When pricing locks and synthetics, you should use two different rates, the long rate and the short rate. If you...
Rbane, you should listen to trajan, what he says is true. Your posts lead me to believe that you really don't have a clue about the option...
Meteoxx is right, spread your risk off. There is not much covered in this combination. By buying stock and selling the 10 calls you are...
cdgtrader, I agree with Gene in that market making training is very useful. I live in Tucson and traded at the CBOE email me at...
Does anybody have anything to say good or bad about the phoenix bright office? thank you
options perception and deception by Charles Cottle has an excellent few pages on scalping gamma with the spot and with vertical spreads.
It is incorrect to write that movement does not matter when owning a bullet. It is true that the initial delta is very small, however the...
Anyone care to explain the opening only strategy? Is it some sort of index arb scalp?
I was a market maker at the cboe from 1997-2000 with O Conner and Company. Everything that Gene wrote is exactly right and why I and many others...
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