How is this for getting too fancy. Being that you already own the ATM straddle and will get rid of it by day's end, BUt stock goes away from it...
on the big difference between 6-7 dte vs. 1-2 dte trades. On the subject of getting the free ride trade, I was thinking about this yesterday ....
What I meant about buying the weeklies 5-7 days out is to still keep it as a daytrade. I am not advocating buying on monday and holding till...
Riffraff, do you ever do the backspreads which is dovetailed in Augen's chapter on Straddle trading? Seems like a little lower return BUT u don't...
Hi Riffraff, got a couple of questions if you don't mind. These hi beta/atr stocks like appl /bidu/amzn often have really bad alphas i.e....
falconview, do your pnl a favor and don't mask "hoping and praying" with "time" very slippery slope....
Falconview, all positions have risk. If there was 1 magic position with zero risk all reward no one would take the other side of it. One truism of...
I think u got it mixed up w auto exercise which used to be less than .25 but is now just a penny.REad up on auto exercise.TOS as well as other...
Falconview, what exactly do you mean that TOS won't allow you to close if one side is .25cents. Could you please direct me to that rule? Thanks.
How can it not have at least some effect.it might notlowerit down to30 per barrel butdown to 85 to 95 L.ook what is happening to houses when the...
Really....the guy has fluctuations on his pnl in amounts most of us could only dream of. Kinda like saying tom baldwin does not know jack about...
Riffraffpatrol, using the same observed price decay, would you do the opposite and sell the front on Monday anchored with a back month for margin...
have his books as well but at the time of publishing it was about the earnings play and expiration Friday-not to mention that the spread he...
for the example. In this approach does this mean that you have to focus only on a handful of stocks since you have to be more precise in your...
Does anybody here have any recent option execution experience with TOS vs. IB? Since 2009, I am sure much has changed (especially with the...
does anyone here have any recent experience in trying to execute option spreads with IB vs thinkorswim? Any material difference between the 2...
is a good reason to use verticals instead of LEAPS and since Vega increases further out , it makes it even more important
Live in Ridgefield Ct and had no power for 8 days from Irene and 9 days from Alfred the noreaster last week. Had a generator w a transfer panel...
if you are a new trader, your best route initially is to trade these spreads on stocks that are not a volatile as nflx. This way u can observe how...
These verticals intermonth such as what you have when you are long m1 vertical and short m2 verticals can be construed as being long cdr in 1...
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