Terrific trade. I bought BAC 2013 calls with a strike around 7.5. Later I bought them again at 10, which are now also making a profit. Just whish...
I red his book (an American hedge fund) a few years ago. This guy was doing pretty good during the tech bubble (indeed making his 10k account...
I got burnt using one of the strategies from this book in 2011. I started implementing the momentum method for a basket of 20 ETF's and then take...
I had the same problem with VXX puts I wrote. When I wrote them the etf was at 25$ and the puts were written at exercise price 22$. A few days...
Not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but the premium of the 4 short calls you're planning to write weekly will vary from day to day....
I'm using the same: IB as my broker, Optionsoracle for strategies. It's a shame IB doesn't have decent software for option strategies. The TOS...
I was wondering if there might be a simple way to hedge a portfolio with different stocks and options. Suppose I got the following holdings in my...
I'm also not following ... The (long?) spread isn't losing money as far as I see.
Market cap 23 Billion today :p
I like the strategy of shorting naked puts. If you do your research on stocks you like, you can easily come up with a list of stocks you'd like to...
It depends on your system I think. Right now I'm following a rotation system in which I allocate my funds for a fixed period of time to a certain...
This is also my experience after backtesting trend trading strategies for stocks. Strategies like moving averages, break-out ranges, bollinger...
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