The crash occurred two months after the market's zenith. Wasn't the market hitting 52-week highs a few weeks ago? The crash of 87 occurred...
Amen to that. Selling cheap calls after sharp declines--NASTY habit. Much better to buy them.
Perhaps someone can clarify this for me, but buying both sides (the plain vanilla straddle) and then scalping seems superfluous when one can...
Would one HAVE to buy/sell a straddle? Couldn't one simply buy either puts or calls and then hedge with the stock/futures (buy 2 atm calls/sell...
I have always noted some minor (and sometimes major) typos and such with my year-end statements with IB. One must check, and then check again....
Being short stock (short call + long put) and being short calls (short call) are not synthetically the same. That was not my point, nor has it...
No, the risk in being long 100 shares of stock is precisely defined; the risk in being short 100 shares of stock is not defined. For being...
How, then, can one QUANTIFY the maximum future risk of naked calls?
Indices and commodities do not tend to gap like stocks. But THEORETICALLY naked puts have limited risk; naked calls don't. That is true for all...
Naked puts have limited risk, naked calls have unlimited risk. The price of the stock is irrelevant. For that reason some brokers will allow...
I have no doubt that Williams won the Robbins Cup contest. Based on his performance in that contest, I am impressed. Nevertheless, he has had...
If you are temporarily bearish on OIH in that you expect 130, then I'd sell the 130 straddle, or, if you simply want to end up with the stock/etf,...
When it comes to trading futures, astronomically high returns are only possible with astronically high exposure--risk. Actually, a 50% drawdown...
Clearly the PRIORITIES were different: clients come second; his own contest and ego, first.
That tends to be true, but if oil prices keep going down, so will natural gas.
Yes, we and the British bailed them out but they gave us the a good part of the Enlightenment, the intellectual foundation of this country. So...
34.27% of total taxes defined as what? What exactly is being included here?
That is THE definition of zero sum. At the same time, a person is free to believe any definition he or she wants, silly or not.
Taken as a SUM (all buyers, all writers), yes, no money is made. There are INDIVIDUAL exceptions, of course. I would add that options and...
On Sunday evening around 7 PM they liquidated March ZN futures, and then Monday morning, when I checked, the futures magically reappeared. In the...
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