Hi all - Do we earn interest on the proceeds of a short sale of an option? For example, if I were to sell a Jan11 option for say $500. Do I...
Hi all - I noticed some unusual activity in the October WFC 13/18 puts on Friday. Over 25000 contracts transacted with an open interest of...
Thank you all for the replies. To those who say to close those positions and look for new ones, I'd love to do that. But the closer you get to...
I sell slightly out of the money puts every month. I do it on quality stocks I wouldn't mind owning at those lower prices. My question is,...
A lot of stocks have have different options symbols. They call them Standard and Non standard. They use them when companies have stock splits or...
I only have 200-300 trades a year and I use the Schedule D that IB automatically generates for you.
If you're short a straddle, you only make money if the stock does not move more than the sum of the premiums you collected. So if the stock runs...
What I've done is download historical data for AAPL and looked at how AAPL behaved on the day after earnings. I got historical earnings dates...
Does anyone sell straddles prior to earnings? It's been pretty profitable so far this earnings season with GOOG, IBM and looks like AAPL too!...
But for the same price on the underlying what moves IV? Is it supply and demand of the options? Thanks for the reply.
I sold the IBM 100 straddle yesterday pre-earnings for a net credit of $9.10. The move in the stock was minimal after the earnings. I closed the...
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