looking at trades for expiration friday... an overnight hold on a broken wing in the money fly... a directional otm fly.. or nothing.. haha.. we could easily pop up tommorrow..
oh and by the way.. you can't get into alot of options directly adding tabs in the options trader.. put the symbol in the main window.. then right click and pick options trader.. thats the only way i can get the vix options to show up..
goog on the radar.. perfect huge event gone wrong.. lots of moving positions around.. pricing all over the place.. no one knows whats next.. looks great for a opex trade..
my dog got out.. got picked up by the pound.. completely ruined my last hour opex trade.. i still went in and out twice at the close..
+ BOT 1 FB OCT 26 '12 19.5 Straddle 2.43 USD SMART OCT 23 15:56:14 OptTrader 1.38 null seemed expensive at the time.. and thats kind of why i bought it.. hard to price risk with no earnings history..
actually sold it as a market order for once.. + SLD 1 FB OCT 26 '12 19.5 Straddle 4.41 USD SMART 09:30:56 2.13 null sub account made almost a round 2 bucks on that one..
i scalped a broken fly.. this is me getting in + BOT 1 GOOG OCT 26 '12 - (2) 665 + (1) 675 + (1) 650 Put Combo 1.05 USD SMART OCT 22 15:59:42 OptTrader null this is me getting out.. + SLD 1 GOOG OCT 26 '12 - (2) 665 + (1) 675 + (1) 650 Put Combo 1.30 USD SMART 09:48:34 3.65 null .25 cents isn't much on top of fees.. but its something.. i guess...
BUY +1 BUTTERFLY AAPL 100 JAN 13 530/630/730 CALL @36.90 LMT CBOE [TO OPEN/TO OPEN/TO OPEN] following a buddy here for earnings.. might pick up a different trade on the weeklys to
Ahhhh... gotta stick with the solid bets...... the directional long shots hurt... 640/665/690 gonna be at 0