"Were you finding mis-priced options?" "We're you taking other side of someone's trade when you felt they were mis-pricing?" 98% of the time,...
"This is a phenomenon of stocks. As more news comes out and the market processes this news people get more anxious and start buying up...
"You are saying theta will generally outweight[sic]" Offset. To the extent is a conversation in itself. Nonetheless, to present a strategy and...
All those words, and never the word Theta. ...and the guys that write that research, traders there ignore.
For a noob here, Surf wouldn't happen to be an ex-NYMEX trader? Although I don't think he would argue with words. That dude was built like a fridge.
"In fact, with... long enough time-span, it is very predictable." @ Ahmarix... Reading this thread, what I'm most surprised with is that you...
I'll agree on the keeping it simple. Price is a very bizarre and complicated topic. It is what fascinates me most about markets, and unfortunately...
What I said is that price is not purely random. Price's purpose is to tell people things. If you refuse to listen to it, it will even get pissy...
Price moves definitely are not purely random. Price is a language, it is the markets only voice. Sometimes if you listen carefully...she whispers..
'cept you don't own the stock there. Seems everyone either conveniently/ignorantly misses that. If it gets worse, someone puts it to you...
Neither luck nor skill. It never happened, because I always owned them. So I'll go with discipline. It is impossible and a waste of time to...
"Don’t even mention trump lol" Hillary Clinton. Worlds best Cattle Futures trader. Argument over. USA wins!! Again!! ...and don't call us dumb,...
"Can you share some details of what the awful awful thing that actually happens is" Taowave said it well, you risk so much to gain so little. The...
"struggling to make the switch from underlying to options" I'd recommend not to approach options thinking of it as OCO, but as additive.
a.k.a. The 1st day of fighting during Gulf War 1.
"Is this concept true for skew as well?" If it is in the same month, as per your example, then no. If it is in different months, it would be...
"options are definitely not easier than equities at least for new traders" Or experienced ones. Options are infinitely more complicated.
"I think he means via VXX." That would make it an incredibly weird question (weird is my polite word).
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Do you still have initial + maintenance with futures options? I might be the worst person to ask this of as: 1- It's been a heck of a long time...
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