Thank you for the education lol. Funny how any opinion expressed here on this forum gets chewed up. Those 'ideological idiots' (tea party) in...
Some people might blame the Tea Party for this 'crisis' but its the voters who have had enough of the wasteful spending and elected them to at...
No offense ,489, although these 'covered call' trades are how most begin their option trading careers, its also how most end their option trading...
The gamma effect is going to far outweigh the theta on those front month spreads so with any significant move you will either have a heart attack...
I got an email earlier this month with a video from one of the 'famous' gurus warning that if we break 1300 on SPX that we are going to 1100 and...
I don't have portfolio margin but I heard that if you have a lot of contracts at a certain strike and there is suddenly a wide gap between the...
Surely, with a market down pretty big there are many credit spread traders that could be in the house of pain if one was to just be passive and...
seems like there are too many bears out there. i don't think we crash, we probably are flat to higher this week but what do i know.
Does anybody know what would happen if GS goes private?
This is a video on a couple of alternatives to a standard Iron Condor trade on SPX and OEX. Hope it can help to make you try to be a little...
I hope you can make it big time and you probably will but what happened with 2010 a -20% month. ouch! Yes I see the big months too but that loss...
I can't figure out why students don't just go to a community college for the first couple of years and then transfer into a university and save...
There is nothing wrong with Iron Condors as long as you can manage the risk and can be somewhat right on volatility. If you are managing the...
I know it might sound nuts but what do you guys think of getting long this etf for a long term trade with put protection. Is now the time to...
If this is a comfortable way for you to trade and you feel good about your stock selection then continue. But as I look at a 1 year chart on MON,...
The problem is that we think there is a special way to make it with option trading but the only survivors in this business are the guys/gals who...
The same risk as just selling the puts, it will only make you money if the stock is either flat or goes higher. You should care whether the...
aapl (weeklies) had its largest open interest at the 350 call strike and the 330 put strike. does this give a clue as to where the stock could be...
i traded the weeklies on aapl. i managed a $20 loss on my positions but i was only lucky this morning because of a minor sell off the highs...
oh well, the prices are fluctuating as i look at them also, jkgraham. and i didn't set the 'prob date' to may. but in general, this appears...
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