was straight-forward prior to ", and then have it essentially ..." AKA "catch this fart and paint it green!"
Trading typically incurs slippage due to Bid/Ask spread. If not careful and liquidity is too low, you lose some going in and you lose some going...
Today expiration series XOM Call option with strike at $75 will cost you about (Ask: 4.30), with underlying at 79.16: You are paying a premium...
Look again! XOM has no 75 strike Calls offered at 22cents! Post what you are really observing, and perhaps someone can help. Which expiration...
BTW: Option trading looks deceptively simple to the un-seasoned. All too often, when I "think" I am somewhat "experienced", I find there is so...
response to one statement: "So when i want to short an option i would ..." No! You should get your terminology correct, else you will have more...
Attempting to answer your first question above: "I would to like to know amongst other things is if an option (shorted) doesnt go my way can i...
cashclay: There is specific information and then there is general information about option trading. What typically occurs in a learning process...
Jim: What was your trade? If it was selling a call or put or selling a credit spread, the MAX profit potential is the money you received for that...
Best practice for me was to create and maintain a Trade Journal in Excel to track all trades, so I know what I did and why. However, if you are...
a few notes: "... because I wanted to be as accurate as possible ... " Then why not use the CBOE method...
Huh? Seems like you have a bug in either your data source or your parsing of it. You should not observe Open or Close that is higher than the...
The strategies that I test mostly open new trades based on "closing" data. If you wait till open, you can have (1) missed opportunities, (2)...
It depends! What are you trading? Options/stocks/Indexes/...? Liquid/illiquid? What is your objective? When I back test, my goal is to have the...
Timetwister: This mechanism accesses the complete history (available to quandl). In the example link earliest dividend data is "1993-03-19,0.213"...
Check out "Quandl", they have the data (for free). Below is a code snip for my extraction of dividend data: " $url =...
There is a strong urge and tendency to increase your position size after repeated successes. Use a trade size/money management system that...
No! SPY & AAPL near month expiry near the money options are heavily traded.
my 2 cents: 40 years ago (or so), when you would crank your automobile on a cold morning, you would typically allow a few minutes for it to warm...
Tough crowd!
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