I'm no professional and I share with you, and many who come here to learn, the same frustration. I appreciate the generosity of the smart guys who...
From Oxford dictionaries: Stock Market 1The normal situation in which the spot or cash price of a commodity is lower than the forward price....
If someone who understands what strike skew is, then asks about the meaning of "contango/backwardation", I think it's visually simple and...
OK, but for the purpose of explaining "IV contango/backwardation", putting it in terms of skew seem to me to be less abstract and more intuitive;...
With options there are two kinds of skew: horizontal (time) and vertical (strike) and they are measured in terms of IV. Contango/backwardation...
By "consistent" I mean a trader who demonstrates greater/lesser amounts won vs. lost over time - not that they always win or always lose. The...
Haha! You're the one that said it made sense, but that it's still possible to blow up your account! I was using YOUR premise, explaining that with...
It's not hard at all, assuming the brokers are competent professionals who use prudent money management.
IV can be thought of as the expensiveness of an option due to the expected volatility of the underlying stock. The underlying stock always has the...
It depends on the timeframe of your trade whether to go with a call or a call fly; the fly doesn't have as much delta; it loses value past 80; and...
They don't tax paper profits. If options are given to you by a company you work for, that's a different story.
At TradingView there are hundreds of free signal generating systems that always win because they reprint. The only problem is that you need a time...
What about using a mental stop loss to prevent big drawdowns: would the strategy still work alright, or must must it be held to expiration?
Only one is a back spread; the other is a ratio spread.
I took this to be sarcastic humor and was shocked that everyone else believes you're serious - are they correct?
I feel I was paying too much when my broker, Choicetrade, was charging me $5 plus .15/contract plus reg. & exchange fees of about 8 or 9...
If a summary says "buy", to follow it means to buy a call - not a put. Indicators work best in trending markets. If you're good at guessing...
Those intra-period tops/bottoms would not signal even a non-permanent crossover at those peaks even if there was a rare crossover at the period...
"(OK, maybe not "never" but rarely as far as tops and bottoms go.)" Logically, for MA crossovers, you should always say never.
Didn't you mean "a long call(s) added to a bearish spread"?
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