This strategy is the flip side of an often discussed strategy in this forum. Use search to look at gamma scalping. All you are doing is selling...
As u study ACd, never forget that the main practitioners of ACD were floor traders who pay very very little in commission when they flip back and...
It's been a while since I brushed up on iron condors but are they not 4 legged positions which mean u need 4 cells to contain the OPRA symbol?...
spindr0 and optioncoach, I mispoke. You are both correct in that the back month is treated as naked which has higher margin than other...
Main prob with rev calendars that most retail traders can't put it on since a regular reg T account won't allow short back months.
Are there any traders out there willing to share some insights on trading vegas. Most of the time, you hear traders putting on positions which...
and prepackage option strategies into neat little rules is not advisable. It all depends on the iv levels, the diff of iv between months,etc. In...
In this hi vol environment, your best bet for a bi direction move is a double fly as suggested earlier wherein your peak on either side are your...
Danbury ct mall packed... i don't get it either...
Pascal's wager....look it up.
Look it up.
Hi. I have an account with IB and with a pro firm. I have been experimenting with options spreads-calendars ,flies,etc where I enter a limit on Ib...
kut, i agree w you on the cronyism. Bush telling us that "Brownie, you are doing a great job"FEMa/Katrina infamy) makes me sick. You can even...
When asked about executive experience Obama said his campaign has a bigger budget than Alaska's budget. That might bite him. There are no...
kills 3 birds w one stone. 1. shores up the right wing 2. picks up 1/4 of the hillary vote. 3.contrary to these pundits on CNN. I think it...
First of all, Mr. Prudent buyer probably won't be privy to his neighbor's finances. 2nd. He also probably does not base financial moves on...
That rule has been around for a long time. This code portion just loads up the spread order onto TWS where I have to manually hit the "T"ransmit...
Hi. I am trying to submit a calendar equity option trade using the API and have been getting 2 kinds of errors-duplicate ID which is strange...
Without considering the debit/creidt of the entire package, the risk would be a stock gapping up or down slightly and meander there for weeks. It...
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