I was thinking... Front month pre-earnings IV is usually high and will likely drop post earnings. So wouldn't it make sense to buy back month...
thank you Masteratwork, this is very helpful!
what is a risk neutral distribution? what do you define as the "real" distribution? I'm genuinely curious since I want to understand what...
ahah thanks for putting a positive spin on this... spin! without theta and vega... I'd be toast lol
So far, I prefer to be short theta through either the fly's or verticals. I don't like short verticals by themselves though... I like to setup...
this was an excellent book! though should you decide to purchase it, go to nuclearphynance forums for the errata. It's under the books section.
I have to say, I have two of Saliba's books, and I don't find them useful at all. Options workbook 3rd Ed and Option Strategies for...
yes... sleeping around is gambling.... never know what you're going to get!
maybe I'm just young, so I don't know how the real world works... but why #1? I trust my closest friends... and I can't see us screwing...
thanks again spin... this is really helpful, and I think if I tried to look for all this stuff in books or videos it would have taken me a long...
I think people have this idea of what trading is, and they stick to it. It actually doesn't matter what it is... same can go for weight...
wow, awesome spin, thank you. I'm trying to think of ways to make money on earnings, but I haven't figured it out yet. Anyways, I'll look...
So I'm trying to think of ways to profit from declining IV pre earnings. If I'm short a straddle, then the problem is IV will drop, but the...
Sorry, when I said "higher relative IV" i meant If the IV is somewhere between 25%-30%, and now it's 40% (this is higher relative IV) vs a...
Never thought of it that way... Do you mean higher relative IV? Or when IV is inflated due to news announcement?
slingshot hedge? (from Charles Cottle) Long stock, short 2 call verticals, use those to finance long put (basically a butterfly with an...
I'm gonna say +1 on thinkorswim plugging values into a formula is one thing charting and playing with the sensitivities is another.
I think Natenberg's book did a good job of explaning the model in practical terms, and without the use of too much math. But I think you'll need...
you seem like you're being genuine, which is cool but i think your strategy is being interpreted as "unrealistic" in a sense that it is a "get...
I'm more confused reading through that. Edit: lol above spins' post, this was written before I saw his reply I think a graph will illustrate...
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