As long as I'm b s ing here, I think that when traders are long a spread, they think they are being conservative and level headed in their...
To beat this horse to death, I have found that if I am long a naked ITM call a month or two out, there will be days when the stock or ETf goes...
Well I guess my main point was that I somehow thought I was a "better trader" when I moved from naked options to spreads, that I was using more...
"If the correct size of the trade (for your portfolio and risk profile) is buying 10 contracts, then to HEDGE YOUR INVESTMENT, your spread size...
"The intelligent option trader - one who understands risk - knows that you do not buy 30 spreads at $100 each instead of 10 naked long options at...
"guys - it is VERY hard to arb in the secondary market because you can not create/redeem shares directly to the fund company. " Well here is my...
"Spreads are used to reduce risk. If you don't like reduced risk, if you prefer to gamble and seek higher profits, then go ahead and buy options....
Just killing time with this observation. In looking over scores of option trades over the last 6 years, I have come to the conclusion that I would...
My 2 cents and if it's not relevent ignore it. I used to trade options on the OEX and my trading platform had an option price model. When I split...
Here's one I did last week- bought 100 COP at $49.40. Sold the Jan 2010 call with a strike price of 50 for $978. If COP finishes above $50 in Jan...
I think the original poster on this was addressing a misconception many of us had. When I was looking to take advantage of what I thought would be...
"With OCO orders (one cancels the other) or brackets as some brokers call them, once one side gets executed (your target or your stop loss) and a...
"Second of all, trade with stops. Even bracketed OCO stops and you'll be able to define your loss within a few ticks. So you won't have to worry...
"The same volatility you experience with the OEX index is more or less the same you will with the S&P 500 index. Emini S&P 500 futures are the...
"I just would like to see stock traders with less then the required $25K (which in reality need at least $30K) trade other instruments which don't...
Well for my 2 cents- I started as a piker with a $5,000 account teaching myself to trade options. I could afford to lose that much and I didn't...
Some moves in the market make sense to me but this one doesn't: the prince goes in for another big buy on Citi at the $5 level and Citi tanks the...
If I set up an account to trade currency in my US broker account and make an initial deposit of my $20,000 USD, when I withdraw the money do I...
Well since you mentioned these were naked puts on indexes and therefore not as risky as stock puts, the 520 puts on the OEX I was trading in...
Dear Lord, Next time please let me be born with my head on my shoulders instead of up my arse.
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