Thanks for that Jeff and i also found the old posts by rdemyan. I havent had the time to check the figures yet due to my day job but want to see...
If it does, then we recently had half a black swan :D I dont think thats a black swan but it can still make you broke depending on how leveraged...
Sure the bid/ask spread sucks but the advantage is there's also a chance for convergence gains.
No worries, your answer like your posts are always interesting. Its probably skill and patience combined with luck. One might think that ones...
THnaks for the responses guys and gal.... :D and sorry for the late replies. Went to sleep after my post If it drops 50% in two years...
Need some advice pple..... If you go to BIG CHARTS and look at the SPX chart for the last 10 years. you'll notice that SPX fell from 1500 to...
Agreed , take the loss and move on. Closed my PUT ratio spreads for a loss as well today...but not as big as yesterday. Any premium writing...
Oops....stupid me ...Duh Cheers
Im perplexed. Doesnt this present an arb opportunity :confused: ES 1380 ES APR 1440 PUT 56.00bid 58.00ask Doesn't that give a...
Great call Coach....but maybe it'll happen tomorrow :) I had a zero cost 1380/1330 Mar/April put diagonal. Even that was down. Even that was...
Correct me if im wrong but both bought and sold. One party would have bought 10k and another would have sold :D
Well some I use are: AFITM - Almost Fuckin In the Money (which is what I use for my short strikes when the market moves against me. WTFOTM -...
Gay site? You know something i don't ? :D scoobie
Mark im sure the people here who's read your book will put in some good reviews. One "fat tail" review from some idiot wont do too much damage :)
As expiry draws close, its very interesting... 2-3 days after i put on the position (ie with 2 - 3 weeks to expiry), I was making a lot of money...
Apologies, The CALLS above should be FEB and not APR. Typo mistake. scoobie
Yeah i wouldn't do ratio spreads on individual companies as well. Only on the indexes. No company specific risks but there's still the black swan...
Hi Mark, agree, which is why i prefer to do ratio spreads on the PUT side and backspreads on the CALL side. Tiny positions that im dipping my...
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