To play devil's advocate, I will take the other side. VIX is now at the historical norm. It is be flat or lower until the end of the first...
I have a couple of rules for these, since I do use bear put spreads. On the day before or the day of expiration, I exit in the following manner:...
Too many of you are looking at options in a vacuum. Looking at the tape, one has no idea who is on the other side of the trade nor why. Cracks...
If you are truly bullish on gold, then go long the ETF or gold futures. Now, to hedge, go long the dollar (short the euro) using the ETF or...
Depends on the selected strategy. Question really is: what are my monthly profit goals? 4-5K is my goal. One cannot use the same strategy...
Some really good points here. I actually placed a trade on the last trading day before quarterly expiration. This was September, 2009. The last...
FWIW, I make my living trading futures options on the S&P 500 emini. I have been doing this for over 5 years. I do not work any other outside...
I seem to recall Augen's article, especially the part about pinning. I believe he mentions that pinning occurs in the AM, for that is when the...
I erred in the math, sorry
Just some thoughts. First, your stock has made a 50% move upward. Yet you have made only 15%, which at this point is better than nothing. You...
I believe the theory here is to take avantage of gamma by going long gamma. This is the week where gamma's influence actually outweighs theta's...
This is an interesting thread for an option forum. Made me remember my first investment. In 1981, I bought my first bond fund. At the time (I...
Suppose you are a silver miner. You would always love prices to rise. But a good CFO will always hedge to protect against declining prices. If...
And many will wait until the underlying hits their price target and then buy the put (at least 90 days our from expiration) at the strike nearest...
The biggest difference between buying the put vs shorting the stock is volatility and time. The stock has no implied volatility, and it doesn't...
Remember, for every buyer there is a seller and vice versa. Look at it this way. Suppose there were 20,000 put transactions and 10,000 call...
Glad you found a way to manage your trade. Always remember that the premium received gives you some leeway. In reality. it gives you less...
If you have a short option that expires out of the money, nothing happens. If you have an in-the-money option position expiring, you will be...
Multiplier is 50. If buying one JUN 2010 with a strike of 1115 @64.50, the cost of one put is equal to $3225.00
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