I know I will get flack for this and yes I already have the position on, but anyone intrested in a short term spec option check out the Sept 14...
acen, that makes sense always buy the cheaper, do that in any area of life, with same quality of course. I get that the dividend makes the calls...
has anyone considered the fact that the calender call is cheaper, because more people play the put side because they are protecting their stock...
very true, i think the main diffrence between the two is what you do with the back end, other then that I would agree they are the same.
here is an example using GE Sept/Oct calender calls on 14 strike price Calendar Call 14 strike price Sept +GEWIN 0.51 0.52 0.52 -0.08...
agreed
I think we bascially agree they are both bearish in the near term, the reason why I have started using them is that they are near parity to begin...
Right but with the calender put your direction is further down (if your right), it is a bearish bet right? where as a calender call is short term...
but with a put calender you a looking for a continual downward movement versus a ITM call calender where you are looking for a short term down and...
I my original post confused people let me try to clarify, try not to get too stuck on symantics: I placed a calender call, ie sold the Sept 16...
I have been buying calender calls lately with some success. What are the experts thought on ITM calender calls, it seems like a nice wager if you...
just an update the stock continued to go up so I bought the option back prior to noon so I did not find out if they really were going to exercise...
sadly i did not know this when i opened my account, its literature is very similar to schwabs that says if they have instructions from you they...
that makes sense, but ameritrade has instructions from me and say they can ignore them
could not agree more, thus the frustration
it is a cash account but I have a margin "backup", on my account info it says magin trading enabled, but I bought the position in cash. IB is...
I got a call from ameritrade today saying that if I do not close my in the money options by noon friday they will close them for me! The issue...
no if I write leap most people know what I mean if I write HI5 most people will now I mean HIV. symantics
Got this in my ET inbox today, just an FYI anyone else get this nonsense yeojamie09 Registered: Jul 2009 Posts: 0 Hi Mate!! Hi...
FYI recieived this in my ET inbox, from someone just registered today, anyone else get this? yeojamie09 Registered: Jul 2009 Posts: 0...
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