By "vol was flat" i thought you meant ... well, that vol was flat.
If ToS paperMoney can be believed IV on ATM options (360) was just about 40% on July 15 (when I bought a 360/360 straddle). I guess they haven't...
Why not put one on a week or two before earnings? IV should be lower and either it gets a chance to drift to one side or the other, or if not you...
Consumption tax is also a form of wealth tax. I am pretty much living off my after-income-tax savings for now, so why should I have to pay again...
I wonder if they will do it for Thinkorswim too? So far I haven't seen anything from them, but the monthly expiration notice has been coming from...
It's a synthetic diagonal spread. Long stock+short call = short put. Short put + long put at different expirations = diagonal.
It was Karl Rove and company who wanted to grant the Executive branch the power of a king. Look what they got.
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Correction: short puts are neutral to bullish.
Must be adding. To get the 2011 results the starting balance would be over 800,000.
Look at this thread, starting on second page with Atticus' posts. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=206482 Also,...
You can ask them to use the same fee schedule for paper money as your real trading account. Even 1.25 is high. Breakeven with Schwab...
A bit off-topic, but what are your commissions at TOS? They are very expensive except in the case of small volume combined with no ticket charge...
Not ZH, GodlikeProductions. It's gotta be run by spooks.
Just mention "Tavistock Institute" there. Well, not if you want to be perma-banned from the site.
Is that an absolute 10% stop or a trailing stop? Do you have a link for this strategy?
I haven't read the middle 10 pages of this thread yet, but I was just reading about a guy who mainly does long straddles/strangles. He puts them...
How about Cramer himself. Didn't he claim to account for a high percentage of option volume at one time?
Exactly.
From the article: That should have been a red flag.
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