The top options of last week on $INCY and $TD expired on Friday at 0 - .50 cents for a loss on the week of up to $5 dollars. Can we fade the top...
There are two issues when buying a call versus the stock. 1. The strategy is built around high volatility and the out of the money calls are the...
Once the extrinsic was gone from my short straddle, I put a bid in for cheap and was hit so I'm out of $BCRX for a nice profit. My suggestion is...
When vols explode and UVXY jumped from 25 to 90, you want to sell short the UVXY ETF but the broker would not offer the stock - none to borrow....
You can apply the same concept for calls as puts. There will be a time when the calls have a vol skew like puts. This tends to happen when the...
In the US, the market maker is the facilitator and they are getting the edge by taking your order flow and all low capitalized retail traders....
O Wait.. It's the weekend and another update - fix one problem, create a new one. around and around we go....
TD had all their programmers poached by Tastyworks so they lack the technical skills to maintain and develop a trading platform. The platform has...
There is ignoring all the trash talk in the market and then there is the annual letter from the world's richest man who is giving back in his own...
You can leverage the TD forum to share all your trades with others via Tools/mytrade then use Tools/Trade Feeds to monitor all the people that you...
IB has a great report under account management/reports/portfolioanalyst. This is a PDF report so can be shared with others who trust you with...
Just to be clearer, the argument has been that client execution is better when directing order flow to a facilitator. My point is that it's not...
People struggle to understand the conflict of interest until IB unilaterally increases margin on outstanding futures contracts. They do this when...
You want to talk about real markets with centralised trading and no selling of order flow? Korea and Hong Kong futures are more liquid then the...
There will be a time when selling call spreads or buying vertical spreads will make sense against the UVXY. Based on my research, when we see a...
These are the largest % return call/put options for Friday's trading which expire next week. This can provide a bit of encouragement for those...
I like the idea that you chose to do vertical spreads so that you don't get margin calls. It's a good idea not to have stop loss orders in the...
The US is the only country in the world that uses fragmented markets and allow brokers to sell retail flow indiscriminately to high frequency...
Private equity is like buying call options. Most will expire worthless and a few will go up 10×100 times. The people that play are not that...
The low Vix shifts the pendulum to buying options. When the Vix gets above 20, you can start selling premium. There have been many options that...
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