Recent Content by Ray Johnson

  1. Risk of a short ITM option getting executed?

    Yes, it seems the days before ex-div can be dangerous... I used to trade Iron Condors on SPY but I like short strangles better. For strangles, I...
    Post by: Ray Johnson, Oct 4, 2016 in forum: Options

  2. Risk of a short ITM option getting executed?

    > replace "executed" with "assigned". --- True! You 'execute' when you are long and you 'are being assigned' when you are short. English is not my...
    Post by: Ray Johnson, Oct 3, 2016 in forum: Options

  3. Risk of a short ITM option getting executed?

    Hi all, I am an option seller. I mainly trade short strangles on high-volume ETF's (EWZ, XME, IWM, QQQ, ...). When there is a risk that a leg...
    Thread by: Ray Johnson, Oct 3, 2016, 5 replies, in forum: Options