so....a straddle?
like some others said, the gamma risk is too high for me unless i'm buying OTM singles or narrow spreads and making a quick bet. with individual...
if you're unwilling to share your super secret trade the only answer is "figure it out with your broker."
two things come to mind: 1) your broker isn't shaking you down. if you think you're going to point-and-click your way through making two sided...
yes, you'd be buying to cover the shares you're short.
there is an abundance of very recent threads that address each of your questions. apart from that, your broker will be able to answer them in a...
do you ever contribute anything of worth here or just the drool that pokes out of the side of your mouth when you forget to take your seroquel?
This isn't a video game where gold veins lie right next to oil deposits. Pick any miner and you should be able to pull geological surveys of land...
you could try turning it into a put fly or put condor by selling a put spread of equal width at or below it (e.g. 3100/3000 put spread into...
I suppose if you're not worried about the value of the option changing between now and when the index settles -- which varies across products --...
my point is that there's one of these threads every month or two and the answers tend to be the same. you'd get help faster by crawling the search...
the search bar
MBI is trading right wrapped around $10 with the Oct 11 call showing a delta of ~0.1 (data from yesterday's close) never say never
get a better broker
I was just pointing out that it's a risk but a very infrequent one if you manage your trades well enough (which I did not, twice)
It's still a risk in the sense that it's something to consider when you're specifically targeting selling ITM options. It's happened to me twice...
Hedging vega isn't easy at the retail level. If you want as close to a strictly directional position as possible, trade the underlying or very...
Selling ITM opens you up to more exercise risk and is imo is a very poor alternative to simply trading the underlying. You're capping your upside...
Those are day-step payoff diagrams. Across the top you should have a toolbar that is (L->R) Symbol, Commission Include/Exclude, Lines: XXX, Step:...
Outstanding contribution, thank you. Eat shit.
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