bubbles don't pop when everyone says the bubble's about to pop. never.
I guess it's all about how you want to play it -- do you have convictions as to direction, or not? For example, if you bought the sept 65s for,...
Well, i tried but i just can't do it...buy straight calls and puts...too impatient, too freaky about the effects of leverage when the position...
oh lord, given the amount of money i've lost (i'm sorry, i mean spent in "tuition") compacency is not an option (pun intended). and my recent...
Something I haven't seen mentioned in this thread -- buying options is now the contrarian play!!! Think about it -- everybody and his Great Aunt...
"everyone" seems to expect a pullback. which means we won't get one.
Not sure the futures are going to give you that lower open to cover your short. I'm in the same boat, by the way. What will you do?
...and that would be kerosene on the fire.
Consider it a game, nothing more. Oil futures are tanking on the NYMEX as I write this -- a relief collapse in the wake of Dennis' evident...
I was spot-on thursday morning, going long at the lows of the days, then turned into a butthead at 11:43 a.m. Friday, went short, and gave it all...
OptionCoach -- You're sure right about calender spreads being all about i.v., but this is so quantifiable, don't you think? The odds of...
This is the double whammy with options, isn't it? You not only have the same problem of your stock-picking brethren (and sisteren), picking the...
Hi -- I'm wondering if folks wouldn't mind speaking to what they think is the single "best" options trading technique for the retail trader...
Of all the billions of courses, seminars, webinars, you-name-it, are any truly legitimate -- e.g., do they actually do what they purport to do,...
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