If something becomes overbought/oversold (which is a relative and highly subjective term) and is ALSO accompanied by an IV increase (fear) you...
By the time something is front page all over the news it's probably too late to take advantage of any move (i.e. everything has already been...
It doesn't get closed automatically and in fact your pnl will reflect only a portion of the max loss, leaving the rest of it (if it does stay...
I think for a retail trader it is useful to know all this especially the relationships and interactions of the different greeks and actually to...
I am trying to wrap my head around your premise here. Are you saying that if the delta rises by a certain percentage (say from 0.50 to 0.60 it...
Megane I know you feel confident because of your backtesting and maybe even paper trading, etc. but believe me, when push comes to shove and your...
I don't see Open Interest as any reliable indicator on Price Direction. Open Interest only increases when a "Buy to Open" order is met with a...
If you believe in the Efficient Market Hypotheses all those indicators and even fundamental information, while interesting for sure, do nothing...
What I meant was that it's different from Taleb's other books like "Fooled by Randomness", "The Black Swan", which are not technical in nature
Implied Volatility is a very difficult concept to grasp (at least it is for me) so I might be wrong here but the way I see it is that IV is not...
good point, exercise and assignment, while not catastrophic, only make everything messier...close it out before or on expiration date and it will...
Please please please keep trading without any concern for greeks... this is how we (the ones who do care about greeks, like Kim) make sure we stay...
I would try to get a few good books on options trading so you can see what this business is all about on a professional level. Try to get any book...
You don't need Options or Options knowledge to profit from this premise (assuming it actually works and he's not cherry-picking the trades he...
I am sure you are also aware of this so if you are just ignore my comment but do you really understand the implications of an ETF whose return is...
Your returns' dependence on 1 trade would lead me to believe that your strategy is not very robust (i.e. capable of withstanding a wide variety of...
No need to guess, option prices indicate the collective best guess of the market (with millions of dollars supporting it, so not "just a guess")....
UNDERLYING PRICE METHODOLOGY – COMPOSITE OR CONSOLIDATED PRICES Since 2003, OCC has used the “composite” or "consolidated" closing or last sale...
If this doesn't raise any red flags I have a bridge to sell to you :-) Seriously if you buy deep OTM backspreads you are going to be losing most...
For Volatility in particular I have just (shame on me) discovered Euan Sinclair's books and they are quite good and understandable.
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