Hi all, I have opened a Virtual Trade account and set the opening balance to $100,000. I plan to do an options trade that I call a Better...
I used to have a link to a website called "busystock.com" that had this, but it now redirects to a Forex trading website. Does anyone know a...
I was looking at some of the earnings coming out today and tomorrow and was surprised at just how high the Sept IVs are in relation to the Octs...
I've been doing some of these recently, even opening them halfway though the week and I've been impressed with how well they tend to work....
I have done several trades where I purchase the Bull Call Spread and Bear Put Spread on the same stock for the same expiration at the same time....
I was looking at some solar plays such as STP and LDK and LDK has huge premiums for puts. The implied vols are through the roof for options such...
As I expected it to be difficult for the markets to move up substantially at that time, on May 18th, I did basically a Ratio Call Spread on SPY,...
Volatile AMZN options: I was just watching this (didn't do any trades), but it lead me to a thought. First the numbers - AMZN close Tues...
Or for that matter, May, etc.? Stock up to $24.30 after hours on buyout by TXN! Ouch! Assuming it holds, some $5 options will go to about...
The following prices exist around 11:40 Pacific time: AAPL down 7.13 CF down 9.74 POT down 6.33 PCLN down 5.18 NFLX down 3.95 Yet dow up...
Go to stockcharts.com and check the weekly QQQQ chart. The RSI is >75. The last time we were in this range was before the downturn late Apr...
Have any of you guys seen the ads for CashCall? Something like "yes, we are a bit expensive, but we are here" or something. Just for the fun...
Hi there, I am looking for a place to find the NYSE Weekly Highs/Lows in a table format (i.e. I don't want to see what stocks hit highs/lows,...
I have thought a few times about things that would be interesting to see added to the world of options and I thought a nice weekend like this...
I was just looking around at the OX site and started their level 4! options quiz for the fun of it. I thought most questions were actually...
Hi guys. I was setting up a straddle P/L chart (on WFMI) and noticed that the software (OptionsXpress) was defaulting to assuming about a 30 IV...
All legs (calls and puts, long and short, short term, long term) of this trade I did on Apr 26th were profitable as of yesterday. I have...
I did the following today using WFMI (it was around 35.70 at the time): Buy (4) Aug 37 Call - Filled at 267 Buy (4) Aug 35 Put - Filled at 301...
I did one of these today - at least that (Ratio Calendar Combination) is what I'm calling it. I have seen where the definition of "Ratio...
Hi all, I was just wondering if others felt the same way I do and I wanted to share some thoughts. I often wonder if corporations that are...
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