Your wide Iron Condor performs simplee maaaavelously if it does what you want it to do. If it moves outside the short strikes of the body, not so...
Your statement is correct. The short put seller will always lose less than the outright buyer of the underlying. Lindq's explanation is...
It's not how big it is, it's how you use it.
Simon & Garfunkel already covered it with "El Condor Pasa". I would have gone with naming a rock band "Iron Condor".
"What's in a name?" Regardless of what you call it, it still performs the same. If volatility shoots up, far OTM strikes will benefit more...
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You select a strike to sell based on your outlook for the stock rather than looking at a sliding scale of potential returns and picking a happy...
Stop with the trick questions :D Selling covered calls is very safe (for the broker) and selling short puts can lead to disaster. Well, at...
Are the premiums of these stocks really that ridiculous? If all else is constant, time premium is linear, considering price. FB and AMZN have...
Yes, a narrow collar will not do much to help one's portfolio grow in a roaring bull market. If the collar can only make 20% for every dollar the...
Don't mean to split hairs but are you legging into the combo or are you averaging in by buying (or selling) the combos at different prices, eg....
What is Gregs fund? Is that the personal money of an instructor or something else? If one loses money with long stock collars in a roaring bull...
Thanks for your assessment of your OptionsAnimal experience. >> OptionsAnimal is very helpful helping students protect capital with strategies...
Since no one addressed most of your questions, I'll take a stab. Most of the option pricing variables are known at any given moment and are not...
Ironchef, I understand options on the retail level, having used them in a variety of ways for 35+ years. It's nowhere near what some of the pros...
Scraping fees from investors and traders (rather than from actually trading) provides a very nice ongoing annuity.
Comparing yourself to a money manager is a specious analogy and rest assured that it is NEVER my concern how selling advice is good for a snake...
Your article at Steady Options is a streaming load of you know what and it supports my point completely. As the author of the article and as a...
If you sell calls, pick stocks that don't go up. If you sell puts, pick stocks that don't go down. Pretty simple, eh? Call me a cynic but if...
I'm asking myself, "Why I am bothering with this?" "That's a good question", I answered myself. Be that as it may... This study concludes that...
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