You're putting too much stock on efficient market hypothesis. IV is not a predictor of future outcomes. It is ultimately at the core merely a...
Selling a covered call above your cost basis allows for upside. It is the synthetic equivalent of selling a ATM or ITM put. The difference with...
Hope it's non-sociable and not actually antisocial.
You're right. There are many ways to trade. Some trade deltas. Some trade vol. Some are a mix bag. Some trade forex. Some futures. Some options....
So you diversify and rely on put selling, switched to call selling once assigned. Lets use an example like the dog VRX over the past year and a...
How can you buy so called "credit insurance" on a client? Who sells such insurance? Like a CDS? lol? And isn't a 'perfect hedge' to the client...
20K exposure fee and it's only 3 months in? Or you project 20K for the whole year? Either way, wow. In spite of that you're still game, so I guess...
10% is your utilization of your buying power? You can't be 10% NAV risk right because your losses are not capped being naked short? So...
Leveraged ETFs that track daily performance of the underlying index have a problem and that is decay. So their tendency is to want to go down,...
Yeah, in theory this practice of put selling, getting assigned and switch to call selling, seems like a good plan. But you can sometimes end up...
I see. If you're selling weekly's then how far out of the money can you actually sell to collect any semblance of premium? Around +/-3-5% tops...
So SPAN is just a stress test. But does it single out naked short options? I don't think it does right? So doesn't explain why a short futures put...
It's a farce though. Because it will bug you again. And you basically have to be there within that 5 min (?) window that the pop up shows up right...
I've actually never seen Trading Places. Also, it's an Eddie Murphy + Dan Ackroyd film. Seems like one of those comedy films that goes over the...
Buy 'safe' gov bonds. Get a solid fixed income that guarantees your survival and maintaining quality of life in a worst case scenario you were to...
Name trading/stock market/finance type movies that you know. I just watched Quicksilver recently starring Kevin Bacon about a pit trader's career...
Interestingly I just watched the movie Quicksilver about a pit trader who lost his parent's money trading options. Takes a hiatus. In the end he...
How far out do you sell options? When do they expire? 1 month out to capture the most out of time decay? But at the same time highest risk. Do...
1.) Yes 2.) Yes 3.) No I don't think you have a case. You agreed to the terms to keep your account. Although I don't think this "exposure fee"...
Saturday mornings typically has issues logging in, the last few times I tried. Probably system maintenance. Usually works by 12, so you can check...
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