Now all I have to do is find out the best brokerage places to go through for options and im all set.
Well I think I finally understand how to use them. Thanks for all of your help everyone.
Alright well now I understand why I was lost to begin with lol . All the stuff ive read before talked about exercising them or writing them and...
I see so I can loose more then the amount I paid for the option. If they exercise it on me because of my failure to close the position and the...
I understand everything you were trying to say now MTE now that i know there is a difference in exercising it and just reselling it. All im...
I understood what you were trying to say mte when they told me you can buy and sell them without excercising them . That was the thing that threw...
alright and if i resold an option that I bought Im not subjected to the same problems as I would be if i actually wrote the option am I. Plus...
So are you saying options can be traded freely without having to exercise them for a profit or writing an option ?
I thought that was how people take profit from options was by either writing them or by exercising them when a they gain value
Ya the value of the option did go up in the example you gave but i was talking about in the money ones lol. The out of the money ones would...
Alright maybe a example will solve the issues. lets say we have an out of the money call 50 a at the money at 45 and a in the money at 35. From...
Are you saying it doesnt matter if I buy in the money or out of the money or the amount of the premium . That as long as the stock went in the...
I do know that an at the money call has about 50 delta meaning it goes about 50 cents on the dollar with the stock and in the money ones can have...
Even tho it sounds like im being insulted at the same time as having it explained to me thanks for trying to help me.
where as you can profit by just a couple of dollars move in a stock but on an option it seems it has to move up several dollars to cover the price...
It just seems to me like its alot harder to make a profit in options then in stock yes you make more when you make a profit cause its 100 dollars...
I know that at the money and out of the money options have more time value which decays over time. But if im understanding what your saying i have...
I see so the stock has to jump quite a bit in a short amount of time to really make a profit then since it has to cover the price of the premium...
ive took a course on options and it talked about deltas and stuff like that but the part it didnt explain is how i know when i have a profit or...
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