It's one thing to read about OE on paper. Another to actually experience it for the 1st time, especially if you are going ITM/OTM on OE day....
When is your hedge fund going to open?
Never confuse a bull market for brains.
Can you postpone until after options expiration?
One of those pharms was PPCO. They are supposed to find out if they get FDA approval on their one big prospect at the end of June (IIRC). PO had...
Can you point me to where TOS says this?
Yeah, that's what I am seeing. The "best" ones I saw at PowerOptions were stocks like pharms that had a life or death FDA announcement coming...
No, I'm using the Java software. Try emailing them - not sure if you will get a response before Monday.
I see bid=10.50 ask=12.10 last=12.60 Are you looking at their website or the Java based trading software?
Maybe I should start a new thread, but I thought I'd try here first. This has probably also been covered somewhere on this site, but I haven't...
I think that was a variation on the typical dotcom business plan from the 90's. 1. Take a stupid idea and make a website 2. ?????? 3. Profit!...
He said "virtually" no time decay. If you look at a chart of time decay for a year, it will be nearly flat at the beginning then fall off sharply...
Good call. What do your crystal balls say now?
OK, thanks, I was getting hung up on the put buyer being short the stock. So the put buyer could also lose in this case if the stock gaps up on...
I actually got that from a book I'm reading called "Put Options". The author came to the conclusion after a few years of selling short term puts...
Seems some people had some trouble with the first part of the original question, so I had to spell it out. My original question was what would...
That's why I put it in quotes. You are long a put that gets exercised, but you don't own the stock. Maybe you assumed it would expire worthless...
Does it ever happen that puts that expire ITM don't get assigned because the owner was "naked" at the time (i.e. didn't own the stock) and it is...
I guess it must work for you. Puts and call? Long or short? Do you usually close them each month, or do you have like 4000 positions open all the...
ThinkOrSwim lets you paper trade. I think the initial time is 10 days or two weeks, but I've heard they will give you more time if you ask. I...
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