I still stand by what I quoted. I was making a reference to convexity with my "flip-flop". I didn't make the trade because IB flagged me with a...
SODA has the tenacity to do extremely disturbing things to your account if you're net short puts or calls - especially at expiration. Anybody...
I hereby declare you the official troll of ET. It's been a pleasure feeding you.
O well, Just found out I can't even trade because I made some pattern day trades last week. I'll have to wait a day before I make some...
And how will things change in the next trade? It's about how comfortable I am losing a couple $100 bucks. Which I am. As for it being "TOO...
Question on Support and resistance. I could write a small script that generates pseudorandom numbers and create a geometric random walk from it,...
Listen bud, A kid can do that analysis. I'm not THAT new to trading. And it's money I'm talking about. I'm not ashamed of changing my...
Not quite. If you remember, I replied to your comment a while back: So I've been bearish fundamentally but bullish based on historical...
I don't know what you have against this Nine_Ender but I can assure you I am no "Nine_Ender" You should meet up with him and hug it out- maybe...
LOL!!! "marked for death" I think I'll stick to the fundamentals and remain bearish on this one. It's European outlook is likely to disappoint...
Overall I do expect it to rise
The market is pricing a $50 move. And it has always jumped higher on earnings. Fundamentally though they have so many customers going to Europe...
oh gawd, here we go again....
Edit: Just read your second post. I was gonna say maybe choose a direction and go far OTM but I guess that is still extreely risky...
I agree with that earnings trading isn't always profitable, but this one makes approximately 10% moves every earnings mostly to the upside (for...
Note that he said it's not necessarily imminent. Apple could keep going up forever. At the end of the day fundamentals will catch up to a stock's...
Gotcha! This is what's fun about options (and scary)- so many variables each with their own non-linear effects. Thanks for clarifying!
Hey, a recent example would also be AAPl too. The recent earnings had an expected move of $35 and actually moved around $34. My ICs on paper trade...
I'll definitely look to see if that happens. Hopefully I'll have sold my calls by then. Any particular reason why?
Ha! Id forgotten about that dirty way of calculating the price... And exactly what a straddle effectively implies So that's 4 pros here and...
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