Tax wise that is how it works. Income is a single word that covers that, divs, wages, etc.
Neww, if you have $50 a day of theta, and the stock sits still, roughly you will get $50 from the higher decay on the short options than long...
The question is if this trade become popular could it cause a gamma squeeze? Came here for expertise on that.
Both are income. One removes money from the company and it goes into my account (dividend), the other does not harm the company, it comes from...
I have used diagonal spreads for years, think it is the best way to play something. Wrote an article on CEO.CA about it today. You Can Play...
The Spread Hacker is a scanner in TOS, it looks good. For others I could not get any results, then realized there was a min and a max, did not...
Thanks emulimu, very helpful will try that.
Thanks xanderman. I am always looking for a free lunch, and have found quite a few. The same link I posted works long on stocks if you reverse it...
Fantastic. Any "everything" includes a way to screen for stocks with the best 1 week vs 1 month higher IV? If not just the chart is very...
Guru thanks for in depth answer. A lock trade is one that PL calc says will make money at any price at expiration. Have found them, but in...
Yes if it will drop more much better. Do you know of better way to hedge market with small money and low neg theta or positive theta?
Exactly, is that TOS? How did you get to that screen? I see an exception in it, the Oct 29th IV is lower than the Oct 22, the rest are as have...
Thanks, good advice
The best method I have come up is this How To Short Tesla With 77% Chance To Win, Make 35% If It Sits Still And With Low Risk (NASDAQ:TSLA) |...
Thanks BlueWater. Was aware of US history not prior Europe stuff. Meant publicly traded by normal investors. There were real estate options as...
Poking around see AMC has hugely higher IV 1 month out than 1 week, like 20 IV more. Have figured out good way to profit from opposite, any...
Easy to answer, look at stock market before 1970s. there were no options. Pretty similar is answer.
Hi, as some background have done great for 2 months till this week doing diagonals buying say three 1-2 month out XOP and selling two 1 week out....
Guru, I have spent more time than want to admit tinkering in PLs with lock or near lock trades. Hard in real world to get them to work though....
IB is ok on higher priced stocks, but just terrible on lower priced, especially under $1. On options IB is unpredictable, it can be 3 times as...
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