TOS is showing at 2% down your margin would be at 80k and change. It is looking at the new 10% down from there to calculate the loss. 4% down...
TOS is showing mar expiration 1700 put x10 as 62k margin 10%down 6% up
Just think of the books she could sell. How a mom at home made 110million in her spare time.
Actually you will have to dumb it down to get to my level. What I was saying is that if you are literally selling junk at .10 in hopes of...
Another thing, going for a dime seems too small. You might want to up the premium you collect by getting closer and being prepared to close or...
In listening to her, she doesn't hedge but she does buy back her shorts when the delta gets to 30 and rolls down. She stopped using longs to...
The last six months are not a good indicator of what to expect. If you are basing your expected losses off 2sd moves on individual stocks then...
It isn't the average volatility that I worry about, it is the extremes along the way. I heard her compare what she does to sitting at a...
That is what the interesting thing is in listening to her earlier interviews. In one of them she made a comment that there were times when she...
Where on the option curve is this IV %ile being calculated? ATM? average of multiple strikes? Seems to me you would want to know the slope of...
If taxation isn't an issue or you aren't sure how long you want to hold the stock, why not sell out the stock and buy a call? Synthetically equal...
By rolling you are taking a loss on your current trade and then putting on a new one. The question is, would you put on the new trade if you had...
I wasn't comparing an earnings move to a flash crash. I was giving an example of how quickly a naked option can inflate in price, especially on...
We agree that there is no one strategy that can be put on blindly. However, whether it is puts or calls adding a long option somewhere to protect...
QQQ Oct. 68 put can be sold for 1.76 the 68/65 bull put spread can be sold for .89 which is over half the value of going naked. After AAPL...
Am I missing something here? Why would someone allocate 100% of their capital to credit spreads? If you are trying to compare it to a naked...
The fact that they are not the same is the point we are trying to make. It does not track the crude oil futures as it should.
As I said, long term (not short term) there seems to be some problems with USO. I realize this data is old but I can't think of why the info is...
USO has pretty decent liquidity but I have seen that it isn't the greatest in long term tracking of oil. If you are utilizing short term...
Outside of events that influence a sudden change in IV I find that trading around volatility assumptions are a lot easier than price direction....
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