I do a similar strategy, but I start with put credit spreads. If the market tanks, I can roll to OTM puts. Since my put spreads are narrow, I can...
Robertst, what is your Sharpe ratio? I don't see how his strategy would result in a worse Sharpe ratio than holding an index fund. The option...
Stocks and ETFs. But, yeah, it's due to the stock split. The extra contracts haven't shown up yet but the price halved. I'll leave this thread...
This just happened to me, and I now have negative excess liquidity. No options expired today. Has anyone else experienced the same? Edit: Might...
Shorting SQQQ is possibly the best strategy in the world based on my tests. Anyone agree or disagree?
Let's say I have a bull call spread that expires next year or later. Currently, it is showing a loss. Am I allowed to close this spread, realize a...
This strategy is also known as a poor man's covered call. Whether you do the trade with puts or calls does not matter, due to put-call parity....
Here are my trades on Boeing: https://i.imgur.com/hIpk4h4.png C = expired worthless R = expire ITM and had to roll The stock is down about 25%...
It's worked well for me too, even with the recent correction (Sep 2020). I've sold puts on at least 30 underlyings and have achieved profits in...
If we are talking about trading, I would go with options. I like selling put options. I have a lot of room for error and am assigned a stock only...
Does anyone know if IBKR Lite sells order flow for options?
Welcome to the too big to be regulated era. With hundreds of billions in cash at their disposal, big tech companies can pay off all the...
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I have IBKR Pro and am thinking of switching to Lite because I am not seeing many advantages. IBKR Pro no longer pays interest on idle cash, and...
Is SPX the ideal underlying for this short ratio diagonal strategy? If the goal is to find that something that will move dramatically during a...
After doing more research, I wonder if this has to do with the "Penny Pilot" program? I am not really sure what it is, but it seems that most...
Yes, I suppose "SMART" is multipurpose. However, for me it just says "SMART". The goal is to give you the best price regardless of commissions....
Just "SMART" but it makes no difference. IBKR will provide a best case and worst case commission estimate that is the same no matter what routing...
I've been trading options on IBKR for almost a year now. I have always been able to get rebates for placing limit orders on many different...
Why OXY over stocks like BA, UBER, or SPCE? They also have very high IV. Anyway, I tried this strategy this week on those stocks I mentioned....
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