If you use IB, look at IB's Risk Navigator software. It takes a bit of effort to get used to, but overall its pretty comprehensive on managing...
When you cross 750k and certain trade volume (500/mo or equivalent in commissions) as a retail investor, you get a direct access number where you...
Hello Fellow-Traders, A few of us serious option traders get together every month in north dallas to discuss advanced options strategies and risk...
Remember the stock borrowing is only for a daily basis. So you are not limited on selling covered calls against it. Also, i checked with IB-key...
Looking at the Option Volatility charts, GPRO's option sentiment is neutral for a price of $9 in May and pushing towards $11.5 price in mid-June...
Hi Steve, I do a variation of this strategy for around 5-7% of my portfolio. Its an active trading strategy due to constant adjustments and delta...
Yup! This works better to the large funds who may carry a large array of stocks that were acquired for lower prices and are properly hedged. One...
30-45 DTE is way too long of a time period to stay long. Theta decay is going to pretty much take away 30% of your value if the underlying stays...
The stocks that benefit the greatest from the yield enhancement program usually are not dividend based stocks. DOW30 and mid-cap SP500 companies...
Pseudo-Automatic, when you are approved for portfolio margin. Manage Account > Trade Configuration > Permissions Check/Uncheck box "Stock Yield...
Yup! HobbyTrading is right. Anybody with a PM account automatically participates in the stock yield enhancement program where IB automatically...
Gentlemen, Thanks for the continued discussion on this topic. Appears that the classic option traders dont go beyond the greeks. My question was...
Thanks Niten, As a traditional marketmaker, we are using LiveVolX to aid with our volatility forecasting and trade with their skew curves. Also,...
Hello, I've come across option traders who try to capture theta premium with guidelines such as theta/vega ratio of 1:1 (for a net short vega...
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