If you close the entire position before expiration, then you don't get to keep the premium. You have to buy back the call which will cost money....
Yea you guys are right. Its a horizontal calendar spread. I miss read the post. My bad. Sorry If i confused any one.
They laugh because so many day traders fail. 90% or whatever is a number I see a lot. A LOT of people try day trading and a lot of people fail. A...
a collar is a stock play, its mainly for hedging downside risk in a stock you already own. It doesn't require any cash if you already own the...
This is called a diagonal calendar spread. Its something I like to do. Since that front month option your short has greater and increasing theta,...
lol.
Collars are a nice conservative strategy. They cap your upside but limit your downside, all for free! I would say to put a collar on when you...
No. Your wrong. In theory you are right, but the price decay that a 3X etf would experience in this timeframe would be significant and would alter...
That put was probably not a bet on ge going down and more like insurance to protect some nice gains. The stock has run up from 10 dollars in...
Of course theres a difference. You cannot invest for the LONG term with SHORT term options. Unless you want to roll out your position 15 times. If...
sold the puts for a loss at $1.10, should of got out on friday probably.
thats what i was thinking
Amen. Good customer service and you can modify or cancel as many orders as you want without being charged.
+1 Thats who I use. Unless you are very small and investing only a few hundred dollars at a time, or only buying options on multi hundred...
My limit order for 50 MWA november 09 $5 puts was filled right before close for $.50. They went up 12% on news that they expanded a future...
Bought 16 HGG January 10 $15 puts at $1.30. Stock was upraged from equal weight to overweight and it opened up about 7%. Then it rallied for the...
Covered the 200 shares at $24.17. Didn't move like I thought it would today. These biotech stocks pull back sharply oftentimes. If they don't they...
Wow check out arena pharma. Down 30 some-odd percent premarket on news about its weight loss drug. Then this morning it was down just 10 percent....
put in a limit order for puts on MWA, below market price.
thank you. I think I was typing torbin instead of tobin the whole time. Thats why I couldnt find it.
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