you could ...but with a diagonal consisting of a calendar w/ an embedded short put spread, you are effectively shorting a front month put spread...
To echo Kim's assertion about strike selection ....here is another way to dissect whether position is short or long theta and this takes into...
take the advise from Kim. Wth Vol so cheap, otm put calendars are prob the best way to harness a bearish foreast.. 2nd place is a put vertical...
Megane.. selling puts spread with VIX at multi year lows is not very good strategy even with a win/loss % > 70% which this one has... your R/R is...
That is a reasonable strategy assuming you are really pretty decent at forecasting the bear move- BUT that IV spike you are hoping for will be...
Hi Pekelo.. if you are sure of a big move w/o directional bias, short a fly instead.. Low IV means good "gamma rent" while the short wings dampen...
get "Stock Market Wizards by J Schwager and read chapter on John Bender- made tons using options to trade his prob distro forecast.
Maxpi.. bumping each other was not a big deal.. You know what the worse was , for me at least? A $2 broker in front of me- in his mid 60's ,...
Hi. I am trying to draw a horizontal line in Thinkscript starting in the 9:40AM bar that represents the highest hi of the first 10 minutes of NYSE...
are you putting criteria or filter on your stocks? or just buy an ATM spread daily?
I am not sure. Most of his books kinda contain the same topics BUT presented differently. The earnings chapter you seek is in one of the books-...
get the book by Jeff Augen. He goes into detail about options trading in/around earnings.
I think it is mostly the throttling issue that slows it down. I've given up on that datafeed route. If you miss a day of download , and you have...
also watch out for the volatility crush on upmoves (at least in US equities..) so you may want to have an idea of the iv hi/lo range of the...
model out the prob distribution of the stock and pick the best strike(s) to reflect your forecast... for example... there are bullish patterns...
Also 1 thing to consider with condors, flies and any short gamma trades - make sure you are putting them on during the right volatility...
it will be easier for you to grasp this concept you are trying to conceptualize if you think of the markets as a place where people express their...
Here is another piece which might explain the low volume/volatility. There is a new Dept of Labor law that covers retirements accounts. In...
There are TONS of good video content out there about options. The effort is in filtering out the good from the bad AND resisting the temptation to...
Tom. I tried it on the spx (where I have no experience whatsoever) and I think I know why I can't visualize your pnl profile. I was thinking of...
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