this will add a new meaning to selling a put to own a stock. iow perhaps not as many folks willing to buy underlying.
since it is quite difficult to predict how much legs the current rally has, i would be inclined to sell vertical call spreads for the time being...
suprisingly good volume on spy weekly's
ok huggiebear, sorry for being cheeky. in my 401k, 35% of my holdings are in a pimco bond fund PTRAX. it has a solid track record. hopefully...
i think i have solved it. why not just buy an inverse etf that is inverse to the original inverse etf. i think that would work out just fine....
what!! no cell phone traders?:eek: besides, all you have to say to keep people from bothering you is: "I have to read an urgent email from my...
well, i guess my post will be tough to answer for the time being as the bid/ask on quotes have really widened in the last 30 minutes.
am i correct in assuming the current quotes on options in es futures are correlated to the 40 vix level seen late on friday? even though es...
i will weigh in on this and say that buying deep otm puts or calls on major indexes may be lucrative as a legimate strategy.(by no means as a sole...
generally, i don't trade verticals. however, on the rare occasions that i do, if the trade goes against me, i will quicky convert it into a...
DBC. don't know about the leverage though.
but here in chicago i can not find any 24k gold coins what is really going on? FYI: very difficult animal to find and probably not a good idea...
i think it will be very interesting to see if 9/10/01 spy low 107.70 will be grossly violated rth monday.
i agree to some degree, but if you are talking about selling leap puts then you are not really benefiting from the volatility skew. have you...
if it is any consolation we are pretty close to major multi year support in spx 1175-1225. it took 9/11 for the market to trend lower.
many are predicting the probability of a panic sell off.....why not a scenario where the market is crawling down the hill of hope.
an informative article by s. das: http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=10&bKeyFlag=BO&autono=325847
fwiw, if one likes to trade the spy or es, my favorite strategy has been to take the current vix and multiply it by ~3. in the past few months...
good enuf for youtube video :)
i find this a very interesting statistic: 50/50 stock-bond allocation returned 80% of being fully invested in the market with only half the risk...
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