Amusing how suddenly posters who have no knowledge of India, let alone having been there, are suddenly experts on the country and pass judgement...
Okay, I'm resurrecting this thread. I'm not that much wiser on butterflies since I looked at them over a year ago, cos I started doing other types...
You withdraw money from your LTD company as a salary or dividend before you pay corporation tax on it. Then you have to pay personal incomes tax...
If you are trading the ES, then this is the best solution. Just trade options on the SPX - enormous liquidity, expiries 3 days a week, and they...
.....I see no anger at all.
Posting here is definitely not going to give you the lucrative contracts or the £££ which you may have been expecting. And whilst you have the...
I haven't looked at the numbers (it being the weekend), but if the SPY options have a higher IV than the SPX ones, then there would be a arbitrage...
Interesting. Question - how would the above complex-options position chart look if FDX had risen slightly in the last two days, instead of...
Key words in bold. I started trading options back in 1999 and at that time, I rang numerous accountancy firms and none had a clue what I was...
I'm UK based and trade options almost exclusively. I have two accounts, one is in my personal name and the main one is in the name of my LTD...
I have an account with TWS and all my trades go there. But I trade numerous strategies, and would like to separate them for accounting purposes....
I pay that in a day sometimes. How does one go about getting a Key Account? I did a quick google search and nothing came up.
Hi, I have a few scanners on TWS, and they return me a large universe of stocks. I trade options only and mostly on stocks that have weeklies. Is...
Interesting. I trade for a living and it's almost exclusively options. I don't claim to have quant level knowledge, nor am I aiming to learn that,...
@guru, fascinating thread and a great read. The Holy Grail means different things to different people. Would you consider yourself to have found...
In that case, a $1million portfolio means you can allocated $25K to the cash-secured puts, which allows you to sell 1 ATM put on something like...
@manic, if you feel comfortable posting an example of this, then that would be much appreciated. I'm curious how it plays out in real. So, for...
@robertSt and @PriceJuggler , I've just re-read the whole thread again today - curious if you two are still using this strategy, and if so, how...
I guess you are trading calendars on VIX options (based on Oct/Dec), with the shorts being Oct expiry?
@stochastix , nice. Honest question - does this formula help you make money? If 'No', then let it lie dormant in the bowels of academia, where...
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