Index. Both ATM.
Never again...
Sorry who?
The conventional explanations I'm always hearing are along the lines of "oversupply". Oversupply from whom and why? Saudi Arabia? Iran entering...
Yep...you're right. The spreads are indeed insane. OTM, ATM or ITM it doesn't even matter...The high premiums/costs essentially makes strategies...
Thank you. I didn't know this. The books/articles I've read don't include this additional step of explanation as they just show the profit...
I do have a book but not surprisingly its largely theoretical, hence why I'm asking how its done in reality
What if the option is closed in the money before expiry? Do you still get the full premium?
I dont understand the last bit. I thought a premium is received upon immediately selling an option?
I was wondering if someone can verify whether I got my equations right because spread bet options seem to be rather different to normal american...
I've read the theory behind the Greeks, about how delta, gamma, vega and rho affect the option price and all that, but they don't really explain...
Strangely I lose money on options like this that target high or low volatility. Always seem to be a couple of points off...
Don't know why this is happening but even if I make a profit on an option it barely exceeds the premium. Its as if the broker has priced in all...
So i did backtest on the S&P500 buying ATM calls and puts and selling on the 3rd friday of the month and found the long straddle strategy is...
I have noticed that only spread betting firms offer Options trading in the UK. Now I'm not sure how different they are to CBOE traded options...
Unless I'm mistaken, buying/selling of options requires you to choose a fixed time frame in which you think how the option will perform. How is...
Just wondering what kind of research and statistics has already been done on this already?
What would happen to this guy's investments if Turkey is not allowed to join the EU?
Then how do I learn the "non-mainstream" way to use TA if most books/online resources on TA are mainstream? Look, I realise that there is no...
Yes I'm aware of LTCM... I don't belong to the EMH crowd. I'm not looking for some holy grail to trading where I just sit back, press the trade...
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