Philo, Very nice questions for a noob. Surprising. "Do you look at term structure vol? Do you look at individual strikes implied vol?" -My...
Oddly, each of the most dominant option trading firms on the floor, in my day, had policies prohibiting their traders from being net short...
"so when people start talking about buying options I think it's criminal.' ...and yet, I always traded from the long premium side...
Your answer remains NO
Tommcginnis said -- "We're done here. :finger: " Classy!!
Not aware of what you mean by DTE or multiplier. 1- Preferred analyzing option values of A vs. underlying A, and analyzing option values of B vs...
Never once crossed my mind. Irrelevant.
I'd hit the books if I were you. ^^ This. If you think Vega is the counter to Theta. Back to the books. **Premium Harvesting. = Pass me the...
Wow... I'll call you in 5. Good memories.
I'll call later. You will laugh. I just can't remember if you were in Motorola or Apple (maybe neither, but I think I remember you in one of those...
Hilarious, I know you well. If that picture is recent you look exactly the same... and you'll probably remember me as the guy everyone came up to,...
btw.. your photo looks insanely familiar, did you ever work on an exchange? Amex maybe?
Because you need to purchase the out of the money side before you can exercise the in the money side, otherwise you lose the optionality. That is...
I think I would kill someone if they early exercised a call in my account without me first/simultaneously picking up the corresponding put.
I've had my derriere handed to me several times being long vol, and I swear by being a long vol trader. Now if your friend had several thousand...
"A simple example is if a stock is range bound, hedging more frequently will give you a realized vol higher than close to close." The worst...
1. sure a choppy market will hurt you when you delta hedge short vol but if you sold vol at a high enough premium (accounted for the choppiness),...
1- Convexity is really a term related to bonds. Also with one letter changed it is the name of one of my main accounts in League of Legends. 2-...
No didn't read it. That's pretty great. Not practical, but great nonetheless.
Therein lies your leap of faith. Utilize B to benefit from A. First, prove to me you can do A, before wasting my time talking about B.
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