I hope not Options are vastly more complicated than stocks. It's possible to trade them for years and still learn and see new things
november
1275's sold for 6, 1175 for 4 or so
damn...look at the 7-day chain for ES...selling 1850 puts still gives $50/contract ...that like 10% away . I've never seen it so high Also UVXY...
Selling the 1100-1300 strikes put naked .
the deltas are the same but the gamma is less because the duration is 170 days, not 30. As the market falls, these puts don't budge as much as the...
as someone who has tried this, don't. this method sucks. Them little puts get big real fast. A put I sold 2 weeks ago at was at $1 and went to...
there is a 10000 word wiki entry about it. it can be summed up more concisely as: hey, let's light the economy on fire bcoz we hate Germany
Germany down 7.5% in 4 days ... I think brexit is pretty close to being priced in.
I did to some extent: I replaced some puts with Nov. 2016 1270 puts to capture the same premium but lower the gamma risk. I pretty much just...
the market fell 3% in may but volatility didn't go anywhere near this high. If individual stocks can be manipulated, why can't futures. It's...
no shit at least I have plenty of $ in other stuff that can;t be as easily eaten up by manipulators. The real money is in real estate anyway ....
volatility market highly manipulated ..a few firms often collude to force large, leveredged traders out of positions
what a joke this volatility is..the call option I bought on Friday morning is up 2 ticks ($25) despite to price being 10 pts lower Someone or a...
binaries can be replicated with regular options
Vix up 18% vs. Spx only down 1% ..the last time vol made such a huge move realtive to the SPX was on 7/17/2014 when the Malaysia Airlines Flight...
vol is so insane today..the out of money ES call I bought this morning is only down a single tick despite the market falling 10pts since then
new polls shows 55% in favor of 'exit', strongest ever.
3-6 month volatility up 12% this week vs. flat SPX...would you say that's not unusual? Put buying does create a downward force on the market but...
All ES profits gone this week on a flat market and VXV also up 13% so for the week vs. flat SPY. It's so stupid how the market is overreacting so...
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