If you are hitting your profit target each month, what's the problem? Oh yeh, I know the answer - you mentioned that you're concerned about a...
Making over 50% per year is a no brainer because successful traders are allowed 29% slippage per annum (making 5% per month is a compounded 79%...
Instead of all of the corrective comments: Post the position with the correct sign and remove the mess ups. It will be easier to follow.
Even tho it may be a bit more work for you, here are some suggestions: Start a separate chain for each position that you want to discuss. If...
What is the best way to profit from time decay? By selling options that move in the right direction. Now "What's the best strategy for selling...
POZN is down 9 bucks to $8.60 Well, so much for understanding the fundamentals of this event.
The ignorance of the user does not change the risk of the strategy. Naked puts and covered calls have the same risk/reward profile and barring...
You have to be sure that you're getting current quotes and that you're comparing bid to bid (not last trade). With iliquid options, last trade...
When a person writes an option, he must be covered or put up margin. For calls to be covered, he can have a position in the stock or in another...
And on his honeymoon, he told his wife, "This won't hurt at all." :)
Covered call sellers ALWAYS make money on their calls. It's the underlying stock that they have a problem with :)
Well, you can always hope for the stock at 90 :) Isn't this a little early in the month for RC's? Will you adjust the pos. if Sep vols don't...
Don't be a Waterboy. "You can do it!" (wink) I don't think that the new drug is going to be anything of great significance in the world of...
There's a pending FDA decision on a migraine medication which is a combination of 2 existing migraine meds (see earlier post in this chain).
LOL. Who's taking about put/call parity? Claiming that the the risk/reward is in your favor with the calls based on a premise that the stock...
Unless your investment adviser has a solid record of timing and profitability, I wouldn't be in a dither to rush in. If not, I'd bet that his...
So we should take directional positions based on how much the option can make rather than which direction the stock might go? The problem with...
Without those inputs, it's impossible to guesstimate what option prices will be at a future date.
LOL. I don't think that even the IRS understands the tax details relating to options! Be that as it may, my take is that the closing...
One thing for sure, IB's low commissions have increased my profits beyond the savings attributable to commissions alone. That's because I can...
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