Thanks for the info. Nah, I'm good trading with my capital. I'm pretty confident with my trading and forecasting. IMO Paper trading doesn't give...
$1. I use interactivebrokers, not too fond of the platform, but I'm managing with it. Serves me well especially with options trading since...
From the vix chart, it seems that every 3-4 months it spikes up. So I wanted to give myself that time frame for it to reach that goal. The tight...
The reason for my trade is to collect credit while being bullish on the stock. I guess a better strategy would've been to use a bull put credit...
Hey guys, just thought it would be cool to post my trades and to possibly receive feedback from you guys. I understand the theory behind the...
question: Naked strangles are essentially unlimited risk in either direction with limited profit. That being said, any purchases on either leg...
Hey guys, So I was trying to put a credit spread on today on IB. I wanted to place a credit spread on VIX Long July VIX 14.00 PUT @$0.6...
How come you're selling this so far out in terms of date? Are you waiting for this to expire worthless? or will you close out the position...
Question: Today I placed a spread trade of what I thought IB was going to place as a debit bull call spread on BKS. I selected "vertical" and...
question, if every options trader is groomed to trade the sameway, i.e buy low vol sell high vol, follow certaib tech patterns, look at...
Cool analogy. I look at the market like a game of Jenga. With every new height it reaches it becomes a little more unstable, until it crashes and...
Well her account ended up with a profit, mine ended up with a net loss. Same positions on both. I know I don't know everything and I'm still...
The irony in this is that as we were talking about just selling naked premium and how an account could blow up if you're just picking up pennies....
so it will be an unrealized loss, but profit at expiration assuming things went your way? and dynamically managing would just mean buying and...
sle gave me this idea, but I assume its already been done and picked apart. Wasn't sure what to search to id this or what this strat is called,...
I guess if you can some how hedge for that 1% , your strategy would be viable 100%. Or maybe make that 1% a time when you break even on your...
By delta you're referring to the expected move of an option based on a dollar increase of the underlying? So delta 20 would be equivalent to a 20...
HMM that is actually really smart. So instead of dishing out part of your premium to cover your naked call, you're just putting a limit order on...
well, as long as you're trading within your means its okay isn't ? Worst case scenario is you get stocks put to you, whereby you can sell covered...
So assuming there is liquidity, this is viable? Of course staying small. I mean if you could find 20 different underlyings all of which you...
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