20% in fees? You should get a broker to sponsor you!
For giggles I ran your plan on the S&P 500 since 31st August 2017 - at that point the index was over all three MA's and hence we started 3 long....
Iron Condors are - if properly structured - high probability low return strategies. You can use them on stocks but as stocks can and do gap up or...
Destriero take a chill pill man. The fact you first used 'WTF' and then added (edited) 'laughable' as well as an edit to cover-up that your...
LOL you are editing after the fact and adding more expletives as we go along. Fine I am wrong - doesnt bother me - OP asked a question, I gave my...
JSOP makes an interesting suggestion and like you say Pekelo as the settlement is secret we will never know. My opinion - which is no more than...
The margin requirement varies per broker - there is no way of knowing what the person's situation was doing the trade but a random margin...
Look there are a lot of people on here dubbed noobs or berated for just being lucky they are directional in a bull market. However no matter how...
Here is my explanation: he sold the 2$ short and to reduce the cost of margin he bought the 3$ call. I do this all the time though not with those...
"Meet Richard RICHARD STANLEY was raised in a lower income area of South San Diego. A high school dropout, he obtained his business degree as a...
You do if you want someone to pitch into your arbitrage idea.
Probably the best advice I ever read was from Peter Lynch, trade in what you understand. Doing that never really failed me whereas the biggest...
I work in Brussels, Thank you for posting the link to the program, I looked at the eligibility criteria and of course it is not as simple as you...
My option trading strategy is simply put (approximate values): - 2/3 of portfolio - LEAP options on stocks based on momentum - i.e. pure...
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid.
Well it was certainly a wild ride on NFLX - I was long the C JAN19 300 - this is a directional position where I use options purely as leverage....
@rtw You really should not have been surprised - I dont have the historical data but as of Friday close c495 delta 0.0309 theta -0.3275 c530...
I have been using them for a while - they send out alerts which until a while ago focussed on long positions ahead of earnings for stock (and get...
Ok I answered my own question by verifying action dates against actual releases. There is a lag of a day or even three in general. Hence the...
I realise that - the FDA could also postpone the decision at any time. However from an option pricing perspective today its meaningful to know if...
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