Risktaker mentioned a problem with playing a stock like IP, it can take a while to play out. Your capital can be tied up unproductively. I...
This stock is getting hammered today. It's back to its lows of the bear market.
I don't know anything about the buyout, but I know the firm well from the Pcoast. If I'm not mistaken, they were owned by the Engman's who also...
I would say look at two things. First would obviously be the implied volatility, this may be substantially cheaper in the next month out. This...
I've thought about it, but our gummint has decided to make it extremely difficult to trade the products I want in foreign markets, mainly equity...
I hope I'm wrong on this, but I think you just legged into a possible loss. Those 60 calls will get exercised with the stock right here. The...
This isn't option related, but I'm surprised at where this stock is trading. Thi stock never really rallied that much over the past few years...
It took me a second to realize that this is MO and not GM. I was about to say that those 70 puts were going to be exercised early. When's the...
Definitely don't throw them out. Rather, analyze the outliers seperately. In a lot data analysis you would just toss em and not worry about it,...
Just load up on the nickel otm calls. Just kidding. A well defined time frame can open up the possibilities as long as it is stuck to. I once...
Good post, a couple of thoughts about it. I come from an options perspective so this is not totally applicable. Markets can trade a little...
Thats a really good question and I wish I had a lot time to go through to think of everything. This just a quick thought, but a good volatility...
Yes, I'll stick with my first option, the nothing spread.
I've actually thought about moving because of this. Unfortunately, there aren't many civilized places between Signapore and Europe without a...
My first thought is to say to avoid. After that, there is always the butterflys. However, there doesn'y seem to be enough volume to leg into one...
I forgot to add my opinion about IB. They're fine, but I'm leaving. The options part of the platform is a resource hog and sometimes you just...
Most equity options markets are electronic or at least you trade it electronicaly even if somebody is standing in a crowd. A lot of futures...
I've never used an autoquote system, so I hoenstly wouldn't know. I would imagine they still manage their position by person instead of allowing...
Back in the old days of option trading, the late nineties, the most active option series in active stocks had prices adjusted manually by market...
That's a good question, I would say that generally for a single order the MM would only change the specific option that was traded. For larger,...
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