I don't think that market makers continuously adjust for everything all the time... Probably intraday they adjust almost instantly to spot...
Nevermind...
My constructive advice: The table you made could be a reference that you use in conjunction with a ruleset, in order to determine when to entry,...
sticking to the art analogy.. painting that Henry VIII would be the equivalent of being a pro/hedge fund/market maker. Unattainable level of...
if you enter an order at mid but the spread is still wide, many times there will be algos trying to get in front of you to catch those few real...
I'm wondering if we are being trolled :wtf:
ITM most of the time trades worse than OTM.. lower volume wider spreads
consider that during the life of the option DTE will change and IV will change, and both factors will affect option price. Long dated options are...
short call + long put, same strike = synthetic short long call + long put, same strike = long straddle, totally different animal a very deep ITM...
@taowave may I ask what's your experience with ARCH/GARCH models? I occasionally check some online models (https://vlab.stern.nyu.edu/volatility)...
Pas de problem :)
my suggestion was actually more akin to a thought experiment In case of doubts, one could simply take the function as a black box process (hence...
OP are you planning to be long puts in what time frame? Did you consider being short calls? what is in your opinion the worst case scenario in...
lol umbelievable this thread went on for so long.. why dont you simply download some pre-made libraries with math functions from a reputable...
come back to this journal to tell us how it goes ;)
Hello there, I kind of feel your pain, been there myself. In the past, I tried trading for a living, but I was dramatically undercapitalized and...
when you say "explore via simulation" do you mean something like a montecarlo simulation?
https://www.investopedia.com/options-basics-tutorial-4583012
I know shit about high level math so take my comment as an uneducated guess.. however I think that neither lognormal nor normal are an accurate...
My comment was about OP's graph, not yours :)
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