Most of my friends are successful people in their own right. Doctors, lawyers, business people, inventors, and more. We are interested in a lot of...
What trading platform?
I long ago gave up with putting the last trade column in my options chain. It was worse than useless, it was distracting and consumed time I...
Desktop application or browser based?
What do you mean by you can't talk about your trading. Can't in my lexicon means you are unable for some reason. Or do you just choose not to?
What instruments? Options, equities, futures, ...?
How did you determine the ToS delay?
There is no debate in my mind. If I want to communicate with others in the industry then I conform with the industry's definition. These debates...
Long iron condor
I did not trade weeklies at first. After paper trading them for a while I saw little difference between the weekly and the last week of a monthly...
You might want to research that.
I believe I covered this case in my remarks.
There is nothing wrong with the trade. I am in a nearly identical one, except I chose $20 strike difference. My comments were directed at this...
Perhaps you would like to be specific about what I wrote that shows a lack of understanding.
Your choice of shorts are identical to mine. You are in one index (RUT) and in one time frame (JUN 11). This is definitely not my comfort zone. If...
An option contract is the "right" to do something. The buyer (long position) owns this right. The seller incurs the "obligation" to perform should...
Thanks. If you could provide the date of entry for both spreads then we can compare your entries with those we might have made.
What were your positions and when did you place them?
VIX @ 15.32 is quite low. Premiums are low. Why a straddle as opposed to my favorite; vertical spreads combined to form an Iron Condor?
Don't use price as your main criteria. I have found quite a bit of great stuff available for free. Some services to which I subscribed were great...
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