ES has much better options. NQ and YM have better spreads though.
mini contracts, huge losses. its amazing how quickly those things destroy wealth. 1 point = $50 and there are 2157 of them . You just a single...
It would almost seem like instead of going long or short minis you should just sell a put/call instead...at least you get a nice cushion from the...
always minimize fees. buying SPY options instead of SPX almost always screams 'noob'
the inverse etf method is effective because the inverse ETF will always make a new low before the underling index makes a new high.I It doesn't...
it already exists. it's called stochastic volatility with jumps. and it's reaaaallly complicated
selling call spreads would have done very badly in 2013
get $1 million capital and sell 5% OTM weekly puts
it's a myth that low volume options are not liquid. I can get filled perfectly on low trade option even for very small and obscure etfs (20...
so many things wrong with this thread. unless you have interative broker's low marging rates, it' almost always better to buy deep in the money...
the open interest for SPY and SPX options is much much greater than ES. why. ES seems better: it trades 24/5 . it is bigger than SPY which means...
lol 3/4 .how can you lose? happens all the time
they decay pretty fast though. you would need a way to make it profitable after taking into account decay
Don;t trade spreads on SPY. Instead, sell a single ES put worth 4 points to collect the $200. That will save you lots of $ in commissions fees, ES...
not unless you are in cash b4 the crash. 99% of ppl rode the market all the way down. market timing nearly impossible. no one can do it consistently
If there is no skew then deltas and probabilities can be interchanged, but the skew makes the implied probabilities abnormally high (based on...
How is it possible for weekly ES puts to have such a high IV...i'm seeing implied voaialtiy of over 45, which is more than even amazon.com and...
UB has a size of $185k, which is pretty big. Today it fell from 188 to 184, a loss of $4k for anyone who was long. The distributions of the two...
TD ameritrade is a joke...read here https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/50ouq4/td_ameritradetos_gives_bad_fills_and_profits_from/ many...
How far in the money is the 'ITM' put? and how long the duration? I read that selling monthly and weekly ATM puts gives good results. I have seen...
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