Heh. Its a tough crowd for a tough business. Its probably easier to get $90,000 than it ought to be. The big question is, what makes you...
The way I was taught was to brute force the IV using Black Shcholes using something like the Bisection method. Its my understanding that there...
I dont have any fixed income trading experience, but I do know a little bit about modeling fixed income. In fixed income, there are lots of...
For the record, I never advised shorting nor shorted myself. I just saw the head and shoulders top forming and figured I'd start a thread. I...
Well, since I started the thread, I'll keep the charts going. On the 60 min charts, we seem to have a short term double bottom. First bounce...
And a longer term view.
Well, it looks like we broke the support level at the end of the day. Guess we'll soon see if prices start to slide !
Or a simple example. The stock is trading at 90. The 100 call with 1 month left is trading for $0.48. You decide to buy 100 shares for...
Do you know where that story is from ? I'm taking a stock trading class and the instructor made a reference to that a couple weeks ago. I...
OK, first things first: 1) I know bupkis about fundamental analysis. 2) I tend not to make calls on individual stocks That aside, I was...
Hey All, I know very little about the actual procedures about how stocks trade in the US. What little I've done to date in trading has...
Gamma and theta are the greeks that traditionally oppose each other. When you are long gamma, you are saying you need the market to move to...
My recommendation for any specific contract would be to find the website for the exchange the option trades on. All the majors will have stuff you...
Hey all, Does anyone know how I can pull up an option chain for a futures contract? I'm playing around with the YM futures contract....
Taking tests for fun ? You need to get out of the house..... :D J/k I'm sure different people have different ways of studying, but I found the...
You are going short to minimize your delta exposure. For example, I have Honeywell options up on my screen right now. A June HON 37.5 Call...
Hey All, I was doing some research today between options prices, stock prices and single stock future prices. I noticed that GM had some...
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The rule of thumb I learned is: Change in Option Price = (change in stock price)*Delta + .5*gamma*(change in stock price)^2 Of course, delta...
Hmm. Would you close out the option position when you closed out your position in the underlying ? I'm assuming you would, since I doubt you want...
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