OK, to be fair my statement was a bit sloppy, 2011 was not a bull year, but it wasn't a bear year either. In any case, my point is that 2...
10% a year for 2 years in a bull market is NOT a track record! If the last 2 years were a bear market your performance would've been -10% in...
Moderator, please move this to Forex forum.
Yes. In fact, some people holding short options get caught by such things. They think that if the stock closes (regular hours) OTM then they are...
I'd say that our answers fit the question perfectly. Anyone who genuinely believes that he/she would get a reply that is worth something is naive,...
Some brokers offer contingent orders based on various conditions including stock price, option price and etc. So what you are looking for is...
Why would anyone tell you what works, let alone post it in a public forum? Besides, this topic belongs in the Technical Analysis forum and not...
The "convention" is that the greeks are expressed in points. So if an option has a price of 2.00 today and a theta of .02 then theoretically it...
These days I rarely post, but I used to a lot more, so my average is still 1.27 posts per day.
Not necessarily. It all depends on what the market was pricing in. If the market was pricing in a 60% move then it would be a winner. If, on the...
How often this works depends on you ability to pick stocks that move by less than what the market prices in.
The option price by definition cannot increase more than the stock price. So even if the stock goes to infinity you wouldn't get into a situation...
Covered call is far from riskless. In fact, it has almost the same amount of risk as simply buying the stock. Your risk is that the stock goes to...
This has been discussed many times here so you may wanna use the search to find those discussions.
There is no edge in selling options vs buying them.
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You sold 90 (ninety) call contracts on AAPL into earnings and now you are asking for expert advice!?
What atticus said above. Also, using SP futures is no different to using ES. You are still hedging cash index options with futures. If you...
Futures do not fall under PM so it wouldn't make much of a difference.
spindr0, The method I described is actually the time-weighted calculation. The money-weighted calculation is basically finding internal rate of...
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