Iron condor + long put Condor + short strangle As the others posted, what's in a name. The key is whether the exchanges recognise it as a...
This question is only complicated because your criteria contain variables. In essence your return is calculated after the fact as follows: net...
What happened early February was not a black swan event. It was a simple market correction of which there are a couple per year on average.
@ OP I am not the right person for the tax implications. My idea to keep it simple by selling naked calls was based on the fact that surely you...
If you need to offload 25% at current prices in 2019 why dont you just sell 2019 calls ATM?
Reading the articles, the best advice in it is : whatever you do never overdimension a trade. It sounds easy but in practice leverage can creep up...
If that were the reasoning it would be incorrect, the ones who will be scalped by the tariffs are domestic manufacturers as steel/aluminium...
Well you raise an interesting issue as to whether there is a rule of thumb kind of thing that could help you further filter your directional bets,...
Just for the record, this isn't true - volatility changes have a major impact here. Furthermore at low volatility gamma would be stable across...
The question isnt whether you can make that return, sure you can. The question is whether you can make that return consistently without taking...
Ok I will take your word for it - do you have an upper limit where you bail as well, say +50%?
Maybe I dont get what you are saying here at all if you take in $0.02 on a spread for a total of 1200$ premium you were in for 600 options? If we...
@OP Kudos for posting about a loss - its good practice to be able to speak of your mistakes as well the big winners you land. If its any...
We have all seen them, those SPY options trading at dimes a few days before expiry that end up 5$ in the money...If only... So yeah...
This means nothing, the vast majority of options is closed before expiry. You can totally make money on an option that eventually expires...
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The strategy spread'em refers to is called a collar - it basically covers you for the downside at the cost of giving up the upside over 30$. As...
Well done - despite moving out of the market I took a step back yesterday but am still well up for the year. When the portfolio was moving up 10K...
Well premium sellers made a bundle - particularly on Amazon if they had the guts to go short. Depending a little on where you got in and out it...
The article makes the usual mistake of observing a correlation and then drawing the conclusion that there is cause and effect at play. The...
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