Alice in Optionsland

Discussion in 'Journals' started by qlai, Oct 25, 2021.

  1. qlai

    qlai

    Another one for statistical significance :)

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    #81     Dec 29, 2021
  2. qlai

    qlai

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    #82     Dec 29, 2021
  3. qlai

    qlai

    Noooooo ....
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    #83     Jan 3, 2022
  4. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    no such thing as houses money. That 8k could have been a business class ticket to London. Now you have to sit in the back with the plebs
     
    #84     Jan 3, 2022
  5. qlai

    qlai

    Lol. Respectfully, I disagree. I've been saying from the beginning that I want a lottery ticket. Now that I got it, I can't complain that it's indeed a lottery ticket - very low odds bet. I still have 18 DTE left and TSLA is one crazy stock :) Seriously though, this journal is not about generating cash flow, it's about trying to set up for home-run trades and hopefully ending up paying very little for them. Not an easy task.

    Speaking of setting up trades, my legging into straddles/strangles not going very well so far either:

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    #85     Jan 3, 2022
  6. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    I don’t think you can generate cheap lottery tickets by legging into straddles. If you could, then you should just trade the corresponding delta. It would be a grind but you could make a living doing it.

    I agree that Tesla is one crazy stock.

    perhaps you will be able buy that netjets membership whilst I have to get to the airport 2 hours early :).
     
    #86     Jan 3, 2022
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  7. qlai

    qlai

    Legging-in is just trying to get a better price for entries. The rest will need to come from selling premium on weeklies or trading shares (gamma scalping).
     
    #87     Jan 3, 2022
  8. taowave

    taowave

    Isn't legging in a straight directional bet??

    Not sure where you are going with this one
     
    #88     Jan 3, 2022
  9. qlai

    qlai

    Well, everything I do is a directional bet. My premise for establishing straddle/strangle is that the stock will be sideways till earrings, so I am waiting for a down day to buy the calls. Of course there’s a chance the stock just moves higher and runs away from me.
     
    #89     Jan 3, 2022
  10. taowave

    taowave

    Your premise is TSLA trades sideways till earnings so you are going long a straddle????

     
    #90     Jan 3, 2022