What makes you say covered calls are ITM? Most people I know sell an OTM call against the stock, giving a little room for upside while...
Kevin, if you box a profitable vertical and hold to expiry, does it gain value over that time frame? The original spread (assume both legs ITM)...
Uh, what? The market was up big today.
But he said the VIX tracks the VIX futures?
Can you expand on that? I thought the VIX was reflective of a weighted blend of SPX option prices.
And to piggyback even further, there's more to it than delta. 3X options with 0.25 delta won't necessarily behave the same as 1X option with 0.75...
I've been doing this for years, and it feels like today was an outlier. VIX tracked the market almost perfectly. It climbed like a mother as the...
Your ROI will be larger with an option . . . if you're correct. Your LOI will be larger with an option . . . if you're incorrect. To me, the...
I don't know if you're a troll or not, but consider the following: say that $108 put costs you $12. You just paid $12 to sell your $98 stock for...
Can you define "swing power"? Is it a quantitative metric or merely a descriptive term?
Today is one of those days . . . the VIX and the S&P 500 seem to be tracking very closely. While rare, I've seen it happen before. What is the...
Good stuff, thanks to all. I'll look into these.
This is probably not a strict TA question, but I'm not sure where to ask it: what characteristic(s) would you use to describe a stock that...
I daytrade a specific ETF and typically wait until a couple of hours after the open to jump in. I mostly trade long ATM calls. My entry timing...
My thoughts, for what they're worth: 1. B/A spread can be tough to deal with on ITM options. 2. for a trader whose account has a required...
Without advocating for the strategy, there are obvious differences between selling puts and just going long on the underlying. I'm not saying the...
Can anyone point to a reliable source of weekly or monthly data for SVXY? Proshares website says the inception date was 10/3/2011 but Yahoo!...
For starters, you don't "buy" a credit spread. That said, you can ponder the idea of reducing risk by legging into spreads until the cows come...
Understood.
I'm seeing a $10 spread on the call side. Regardless, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying on (3). Are you talking about a spike in...
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