I never said they were all uncovered. Some were probably covered, some not. But you -could- have all uncovered writers. Why not? the chances...
A few people hit a jackpot today. WGR 50 July calls went from 0.05 to 9.75. Thats $1k to $195k overnight. There were 2705 open interests,...
I am new to daytrading and just getting my feet wet with options, futures, and want to test out some ideas related to tick readings,...
I've been running the numbers, and 3 months per contract period seems to be the happy medium, especially for buying calls solo. One thing I don't...
Arb opportunity was never an intention here. Going retail, it never went into my mind. In fact, my latest analysis has been with doing this...
reading mcmillan now. Any downside (besides taxes and lost dividends) to selling atm naked puts and buying same strike calls with the proceeds...
a large percentage who do 50% or above? i have a hard time believing this can be sustained. whoever's done this, feel free to post duration and...
What percentage of liquid net worth do you devote to speculative trading?
This poll is only interested in a investors who reserve a small portion of their portfolio for generally considered speculative (options, futures,...
Including any wipeouts, surges, great profit years, etc, what have your annualized returns been trading options and other day trading...
I am interested to see what the options traders here on ET are actually working with, and what they're past success and past losses have been with...
If you want to short without as rigid a time limit, you could also just short the stock and buy a slightly out of the money call (maybe 1 or 2...
1) When I said 4000/1000 etc.. I meant that basically for every contract or share to be sold short, it must be borrowable. And for it to be...
Of course, the same holds true for futures purchased with 0 leverage. :) Leverage is built inclusive of the option premium. Anything else...
pretty amazing yield.. not a run of the mill reit. not a bad stock to be put onto you. but thinking about that, i could only imagine that...
This makes sense. So basically, the chicken and the egg. I can only short it if there is someone there who has already gone long. So there...
i'm new to all of this ... i think i need to read a book on market making. anything to recommend? i assumed (probably incorrectly) a market...
MY question... For options to work, don't there need to be people on the other side of the bet? Who would. and who is (For these housing...
a long straddle would've been great here. but I guess for less drastic price moves after earnings (most of the time), it probably pays to avoid...
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