Thanks for your reply but I suspect that you didn't read my question carefully. As for your premium doubt, if I sell three $75 puts at $5.80...
Can you provide an example with actual prices that demonstrates that exercising an ITM call with time premium remaining (and less than the...
If the option's bid is trading below intrinsic, execute the offsetting trade in the underlying first (short the underlying if exercising calls or...
It's been 12 years or so since I used IB's paper trading account so I can't tell you how it works with that. In a real account, the moment you...
I own multiple legs in a hedged equity position and I'm wondering if there's an alternative to this problem. One of the legs is a long $75 put...
Robert Morse gave you excellent advice: "If your expectations have not changed, stay long. If you think you were wrong get out. This is true for...
That's true unless you fail to close ITM long options at expiration and then the OCC automatically exercises anything $0.01 ITM (Exercise By...
What's the quickest way to make a million dollars? Start with two million. Was he long a sh*tload of calls or did he get bagged on the other side?
That's all fine and dandy if the MM is willing to cooperate near the midpoint but all morning it was no takers. Also, with a directional long put...
I got filled at $4.50 on the $90 puts. Share price had risen a little but the B/A spread finally narrowed. I also have some long $87.50 puts to...
No, I'm not with ToS. If I was, if the LONG $90 put is $4.20 x $4.70 and I put an order to sell at $4.50 then how would calling in be any better?...
Option premium can start expanding as much as 4-6 weeks before the earnings announcement. You can see 1 year graphs of this at IVolatility (free...
OOPS!!!! BAD TYPO. My apologies and thanks for catching that. That's what happens when I multitask poorly :mad: As part of it, I owned some...
The short answer is that it's a terrible bet because premium inflates dramatically prior to the EA (assuming that the stock has a pulse) and the...
It's not clear from what your position is but I'll guess anyway. In order to have an offset, you have to have two positions. If you're...
I have a multi-legged option/stock position. As part of it, I owned some ATM $90 ITM long calls that were at $4.20 x $4.70 with the stock at...
First you have to get a list of upcoming earnings announcements. Then you delete low priced stocks as well as those where you don't want to deal...
I used to trade a lot of EAs. Sometimes, the back week (one or more out) did not inflate as much. You could get a rough idea of where the back...
I don't trade futures so I don't know how viable this thought is in that market. From an equity point of view... If day trading, no need to...
Sometimes you have to trade a strategy to see what it has to offer rather than postulating what you think it has to offer. And given that the...
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