I thought of this also but in the description there is no risk to the upside. Being long stock and short a straddle would add risk to the stock...
Good point on the margin. MSFT is around 47.6 today, the jan '05 50 calls are around 10.7. Higher volatility underlying could hit that 100%...
You are correct on the two trades. Therefore he is doing a Leaps covered call. Buying the stock and selling a two year leaps. This has the same...
Looks to me as selling LEAP puts. A leap can be thirty percent of the underlying which would allow for the thirty percent low break even level....
Likewise it is hard to even begin to respond with so much error in the original thought.
Or the media is simply twisting again.
I was at a Mariner's game up in the corporate box and my wife asks me if I knew the box next to us was owned by Wade Cook Financial Corporation....
Selling premium is my stretegy, just have to be careful.
If you are looking for repairs McMillan covers at least one for every strategy in his book. The thing with options, as you probably know,...
I typically like a maxdd of less than twenty percent of equity allocation per position size. That, sharpe ratio and profit factor are major...
People who make the case against U.S. involvement usually leave out an important point: Saddam is the one who attacked first and this is what...
If nations do not take the lead in disarming tirants then the risk of a nazi-like scenario increases. I'm pleased America is leading this coalition.
'Probably should listen to the consensus, if you didn't have a plan to deal with the trade if it went against you, you may want to just shut it down.
Exactly, if we head lower it will most likely increase. It is somewhat unusual for this size of ATR and the VIX this high.
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Either way, this is the environment to short premium.
Good post. Yes if you are going long you have better odds at winning if theta is lower by buying further out. That is why with the market very...
You could look at the arms index. It is a decent confirmer of trend direction and magnitude of move.
CME has closing values for their options and bigcharts has options chains. HIstorical is the difficult part.
I'm sure these systems work but what i'd really like to see is a site which shows equity curves per system based on %'s.
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