Ironic comment given that anyone who was long WOTM puts for the last week on >90% of index products in the world just made huge money. Not that I...
If you're outlook is flat to bearish, why would you want your position to be synthetic short itm puts (assuming you're selling 1 call for each 100...
Interesting day. It seems that most traders were expecting some sort of pullback in the equity markets. People have been talking about how they...
Mav, Given IV skew on indexes, do you find it difficult to buy put backspreads for a reasonable price? ST
The TOS guys who favor closer to the money wingspreads do so not because of an ability to predict market direction, but because the larger credit...
Best reason this strategy might work is because everyone here seems to hate it. "Copper the public's ideas and play at all times"- Robert Bacon ST
Given that everyone in the world expects Apple to introduce the iphone tomorrow, I can't imagine too much of a pop in the underlying tomorrow....
Cults can be quite profitable. Even if a small percent of followers catch on and leave, there are still enough followers and new suckers always...
I still don't see why any retail brokerage would want the majority of their customers to have portfolio margining. Even brokers that know how...
Some closed end funds, like GCH, can give you varying exposure to mainland China and Hong Kong, and can be shorted as well. ST
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