They don't. As I've written previously, about 16% is a pretty typical ROI for me. I do not look at the Greeks AT ALL.
I'm not a professional trader. I'm self-taught at TREMENDOUS expense. What success I'm experiencing is the result of having stopped making the...
No, about a buck each initially but by dorking around and making stupid, wasteful adjustments, I managed to reduce that by about 20 cents per...
[ATTACH] This is the screen shot of the close. BTW, I violated one of my own rules and made an unnecessary and, frankly, kinda dumb, adjustment....
Those values should be visible on your trading screen as you view the option chain. I use TastyWorks which was developed by the same team that...
At the moment. But since I started following the plan I have outlined on this site I've increased each of those three accounts from around $2300,...
I don't buy options other than as a hedge against those that I sell; I sell vertical spreads, usually one strike wide but, occasionally, two...
I begin by watching the futures activity to get a feel for market sentiment for SPX here. I check that about every 15 minutes, right up to the...
The conventional 'wisdom' suggests that buy relatively far in advance of expiration and hold until a few days before expiration will allow you to...
This will take a minute because I want to answer your question completely and truthfully. Bear with me, please. Beginning almost four years ago...
Just to clarify, you seem to be saying that a $1.00 return on a $99.00 investment is equal to a 100% return on that $99.00. I don't want to...
While it is possible to make very good money trading SPX, NO ONE is making 100% ROI consistently, over time, although it might be possible to make...
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