Last Friday I traded some VXX puts after the market close(trades like 15 min from 4-4.15pm). They were out of money by 4.15, so didn't bother to...
its called leverage
just because there are no bids doesn't mean there is no liquidity, it just depends on if you are in the money or not, if you are ITM, try placing...
depends on what you trade, if its SPX or some other liquid instrument its not an issue exiting a position
unless you day trading over 2k contracts in an illiquid instrument you should be good
you didn't mention what you want to trade, options or the underlying
tax selling, try doing that on normal expiration day, it moves cents killing both near otm puts and calls
From my experience most of the time SPX is usually flat on Mon/Wed/Friday expiration takes some news/event like tax reform or fed or tax selling...
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