What was yesterday afternoons yield and VIX spike + market drop about? Japan? I am operating on the thesis that yield curve is going to correct....
It's a good introduction strategy as long as you are able and willing to eat the shares at the price. It seems like free money, but you are...
Not at all. Once your long options go ITM and your short options go OTM then the convexity is gone.
Bollinger Bands are the most statistically based. The strategy works most of the time except during waves #3, and #5 when there isn't enough mean...
gamma and theta.
Au Contraire, Mon Freire. It's a long credit strangle. Thats all it is.
The market likes oil stocks today. Thats the only thing that has an up signal on my strategy.
BTW, I don't recall seeing your trade.
I would now skew it to the short call side. I have a Bollinger Band Strategy that has sell signal on the ES that generates over 300k a year to...
I downloaded this book to learn the difference for free. Since I don't like paying for options, why would I pay for a book about options? But he...
They are still just buying and selling shares, calls, and puts. That's all that there is. The additional terminology is just marketing to sell...
Volume and frequency is the difference. HFT firms manages moves alot quicker and with alot more volume.
My opening trade on SPX would look something like this. It meets all of my criterion. [ATTACH]
I will do that too. I try to pay the least amount up front as possible. My ideal trade is to recieve an initial credit, have capped risk, but...
It's usually done with a defined risk call credit spread. The market could also rip 'you a new one' while you are short the shares in the...
You would need to time the selling of the underlying before the down market, otherwise you could have held on to all of that risk without any...
If you don't want to manage all of these contracts on a daily basis (and I don't fault anyone who doesn't want to) then a buy and hold of shares...
You have to trade in the context of your overall position and what you are trying to accomplish as well as the purpose of each contract. How did...
Here is a pointer: I never allow my long options to expire to $0. From experience, that is the #1 killer. I simply roll it and then sell against...
I use TBT and /10Y. The yield curve needs to correct eventually. I am waiting about 14-15 months. There is a certain embarrassment. A Buffoon...
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