What I can see is that you want to learn more about options, but what you are doing is fining high risk strategies. No one should ever consider...
Sep 18 was expiration Friday You bought stock at 40 You sold stock at 35 You have no remaining position. You sold the Sep 35/40 call...
This is meaingless number. Did you collect $500 for the oiginal trade? Did you collec$20,000? It makes a diffrence. Here's a good answer...
Not one? Do you trade in a closed room? Mark
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It's not a question of knowing better. They set their algorithm for determining margin and are unwilling too budge. Take it or leave it. Mark
At IB, if you sell a call spread with a 10 point difference between the strikes and also sell a put spread with any difference between the strikes...
Agree. AND It's often easy to exit the put credit spread for a nickel or two, and it's much more difficult to exit the collar. Mark
You must have the difference between the strikes x 100 cash in your account. You can use the credit towards that cash requirement. The...
European style options trade in the US. Use any broker. Or are you referring to options on European companies? Mark
VIX is good enough to get a general idea of how implied volatility is moving in the options universe. But, as has been mentioned, the IV of...
Here is a suggestion that you will find very useful. Don't trade the collar next time. Instead, trade the position that is exactly equivalent....
Stock criteria? Buy stocks that don't decline in price. That's the key to writing covered calls successfully. Nothing else matters. Mark
This is not a discussion where extreme views can be argued - as they can in politics. The earth is not flat. The CC and NP are equivalent....
There are alternatives to buying calls. You can sell OTM put spreads. Profits are limited, but you will have a much higher probability of...
Buying that put is no different from buying the Dec 45 call and forgetting about buying stock. much simpler. Mark
BIG mistake Mark
If AAPL finishes over 185, you will not have a stock position. If stock is below 185, and you don't want 3000 shares of AAPL, BE CERTAIN TO...
EOD data is severely flawed. Many market makers arrange for the bid/ask spread to widen one minute before the closing bell, making the date...
85% of options do not expire worthless. This is just an improper use of statistics. The truth is that a large number - perhaps 85% - opt...
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