a lot of people like to say this, or something along the lines of "If you still think options is a zero sum game then you don't know options"...
hahaha....yeah, i try to forget the whole 2000-2003 era. But in the grand 50 yr scheme of things...the avg "player" is better off sticking their...
Hey daryl...you sound a lot like some blog that I read awhile ago that some Calendar Spreader wrote...talkin bout "becoming the house",...
Wow...I thought SPX Credit spread trader journal was fairly safe against the spam...apparently not.
1415 is pretty close for a normal vertical spread
wait...I thought index ETF based options were not treated the same tax wise as the index options....is SPY an index ETF based option like QQQQ?...
Yeah, I would have liked to hold on and see how the day turned out but my day job required meetings all day, so i had to decide what to do before...
back to the main topic at hand. BTC the 1470 position for .15 debit about 15-20 min. ago when SPX was down 1.4 or so.
Yeah, I am in the exact same boat (1470/1480). I actually had a .05 debit close order throughout yesterday that never got filled. Saw the .1...
you know...I've been using TOS's probability formula (1sigma=stock price*volatility*(SQRT(Days to expiration/365))) and it is different than if...
nvm...i ran it through optionsxpress's trade calc and saw the margin requirements change
So, I noticed that if I do an iron condor the margin requirement is the difference between the two short srtikes...does that mean you can sell as...
Hey guys, I notice that a lot more people are trading RUT now as opposed to SPX. What are the benefits of this? I notice that one can get...
Does it really matter if the FOTM spread "loses" on paper by a relatively small adverse move? The CTM spread guy now has to pray to the Market...
Wow...this line has starting getting a few more supporters of CTM, ITM spreads. I still dont understand why some of you think CTM is safer than...
traded spx weeklies when I first started and was taking in like 5-7% returns/week. It was friggin awesome for 2 months. Then I got burned by the...
So, after all the wonderful conversations here about Put Diagonals, I decided to give it a try about 4 weeks ago for Oct./Nov 1265/1250 put...
I have been waiting since friggin Sept. 15th for the market to start falling! heck, I've been waiting since mid Aug. Even though my current...
It's fake. No one would do that trade. And anyone who was capable of selling 100 RIMM calls naked would have to be pretty well off to begin with...
Uhh..again, how are we continuing to go even further up? It's almost like the market is so close to the top that it kinda artificially is pushing...
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