Strategy: Selling Put Options: The Best Income Method?

Discussion in 'Options' started by botpro, Feb 28, 2016.

  1. ok.. whew.. now I got where you are getting your pnl from... Normall you woult not combine the put into the cost basis of the long stock... it is a separate position.Anyway, I plugged it into my dissector and your risk is if WB sits here and does not scream up.. You have risk bec u are long juice which leaks daily .. this is trade 2 days roughly
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    This is trade+5 days .. see how at 49.05 the position leaked?maybe sell another set of calls?
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    #321     Apr 13, 2017
  2. yobo

    yobo

    Yeah. I'm not done with trade yet. Will sell more premium. Ideal scenario will be a sharp move in the stock either direction.
     
    #322     Apr 14, 2017
  3. G. Alindogan, You mentioned Vomma which demonstrates the convexity of vega. Then what about Ultima? Thanks

    S Leeds
     
    #323     Apr 14, 2017
  4. Steven. I don't know ultima.
     
    #324     Apr 14, 2017
  5. Steven .. looked up ultima which is a 3rd order.. measures sensitivity of vomma w/ respect to volatility. ie the volatility of the vega change with respect to volatility.. as an example.. if you are short puts which is ( -vomma ) on sugar options when it was at 25 IV when sugar was 6 cents vs. short puts on sugar options which was around 40' IV when sugar was at 18 cents, you'd get hurt much more on your short puts at 40IV? anyone enlighten us here?
     
    #325     Apr 14, 2017
  6. Heck, I'm still trying to figure out the 1st tier of Greeks let alone the 2nd. Now I find out there's a third tier. I think that I'll stay with my credit spreads, focus on Delta and Theta and forget Gamma, Rho , and Vega. Not to mention the 2nd tier greeks Vomma Vanna, Charm and DvegaDtime, and the 3rd tier greeks Color, Speed, Zomma and Ultima. I read about those in a course I took years ago decided to focus on the 1st tier greeks wholly and only. Is there even a trading platform out there that has those indicators built in?
     
    #326     Apr 14, 2017
  7. Steven, you gotta consider vega when u r doing put spreads.specially otm ones..payoffs can be material.
     
    #327     Apr 14, 2017
  8. You quoted me 4 times with no response??
     
    #328     Apr 15, 2017
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  9. yobo

    yobo

    Good evening beefcake. Not sure how that happened. Weird. I thought I answered your post in a different post I made.

    I'm currently long the stock and long puts. Currently I am flat. My calls expired worthless. In summary I am long WB at 50.50 and still long puts bought at 2.10. I've collected .95 cents in premium. Net cost basis is 51.65. Long puts have a value of 1.10 hence the even money or flat trade.

    i didnt see any benefit in closing it out since I can just sell a put against my long put or sell a call against the shares. Either way I have some time to react to what the shares do.

    Ideally I would like to see the shares tank, sell some calls and make money on the puts. If I can make money on the puts, I may have an opportunity to roll down and out and collect more credits while keeping the shares and trade risk free around the shares. All good.
     
    #329     Apr 15, 2017
  10. yobo

    yobo

    Since my calls expired worthless last week, I opened a new position. Sell to open the WB 50.50 calls that expire Friday for .78 cents. Still long the stock and long the puts that expire Friday.

    Next option leg will depend on what the stock does.
     
    #330     Apr 17, 2017