Regarding your example of the short calendar around earnings report: I guess the earnings should be in the back month (since you are selling...
I know there is no way of determining it until after the fact. However, if your model happens to price IV better than the competition (ie. your...
how about finding mispricings / discrepancies in IV? It makes sense that different valuation methods and tools would result in different...
yes, i've started to recognise my previous errors as well. Basically offering volatility cheaper than what the market was demanding for it.
Ok thanks for this helpful post. I find it funny how the vol smile on USO is rare: you would think that the ATMs should always trade at lower...
I havent studied the UNG option chain. On the other hand a strangle on USO seems like a good play, since I get to participate both in the move...
Could you please elaborate on how to find cheaper premium? Are you talking about monitoring the bid-ask prices and getting filled in at favourable...
Given the parabolic moves in oil, i find it risky to go long the underlying at these levels. I was thinking it would be wiser to put on a...
me too. good speech i must say.
I think the point to take home is that the 10% return is ON AVERAGE. You might have some better years and some worse years. Are you telling me...
If i'm not mistaken, their traded OTC - ie. mostly unregulated, and financial institutions opt to keep it that way :D
I always hear this tremendous risk with naked puts and covered call strategies but lets assume one is investing long term: wouldn't covered...
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are the nummerical tests very tough? does one need to prepare? I might be attending the next recruiting event in july.
what this topic has got to do with trading psychology i have yet to discover. don't worry C-kid, government must be devising another false flag...
Not to discredit any of your trading or chart reading skills but, funny how everything seems so much easier in hindsight.
damn... nobody? :confused:
jem, looking forward to your conclusions. I guess its something related to how the human mind prefers a stream of tiny winners and just a...
bump please
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