LOL Remember FF ? He seems to have vanished but remember how he sold puts? LOL!!! EDIT: Sweet GANESH and SWEET JESUS!!! 260% vol!!! But I...
Not in on V yet. I see a 2:1 reward/risk tho on WFM but I like it since vol isnt that spectacular...
could be a girl...
On the other hand, since we're concerned with a one day event here, and given how the market sort of b!c# slapped MA for operating expenses (not...
I'd fly it off Ryan. May 4 vol's gonna drop 3300 bp at least. If you're wrong, you'll lose quite a large chunk of the $500 So sell 2 each of...
Sorry to hear about your mom Ryan. I hope she gets well soon. I don't pray or anything but I'm sure the doctors there are capable enough to take...
Woulda coulda shoulda... but didn't ...
That particular post of atticus' was so over my head I didn't even know what to ask... I'm guessing atticus' approach is more like that of a...
What's IG?
Precisely because you couldn't anticipate twice the expected move is why it was a black swan. No use hunting cuz if you can see it chances are...
Yes but not everyone has futures trading permissions in IB. Oh, and btw, these are the two references to market data subscriptions regarding...
Funny how nobody here ever reads what you are asking. But to answer your question, yes, you need a subscription to CME Globex which isn't part...
Interactive Brokers is your best bet. I'd open an account with ThinkOrSwim but theyre owned by TD Waterhouse in Canada (not TD ameritrade) and...
Thank you atticus! But our straddles are in another thread.
How were you able to post this time? When you mean forum, you mean this particular thread or the options forum as a whole which is a "sub-forum"...
"Source"? You made money on that fly? Wasn't that an SPX put fly? :S WAIT!!! Were you hedged with the VIX in some ratio??? And with this...
Geez, how on earth did you make money on that strangle? So let me get this straight, the MAY 470 put and the MAY 625 call? That was April 24th...
Looks like it might go your way a little today.. we're seeing some selling here..
So an update... I only lost around $500.. I had a really wide IC in SBUX which I closed soon upon market open... so that helped a little....
This was a classic black swan... It moved more than twice the straddle value pre-earnings.. nobody thunk it! the straddle sellers are just...
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