Really? If my debit spread expires ITM, I only break even? Do you even have a shred of a clue? Explain yourself. I dare you.
I don't agree. I find that I can get a better R:R with debit spreads. This is real world trading, not some theoretical result. I can hit very...
All I can do is look at the bid/ask as reported and see where my fill was. It was smack in the middle. I'm sure the market makers took some too...
Please explain how expectation does not address risk & reward, bang for the buck, or whatever else you want to call it. I would honestly like to...
WTF does that mean? What reason have I given you to say that I'm "impermeable"? You don't know me from Adam. I showed the expectation. I told...
My purchase landed right in the middle of the bid-ask. oX has a "walk the limit" feature on spreads which actually works pretty well....
Risk and reward don't tell the whole story. You need to consider expectation. Your odds of profitability are much lower than mine. When I put...
Perfect. I bought the 42/42.5 Jul15 put debit spread for 40 cents earlier today at $39.97, so we'll see which strategy works out. fxfx is aiming...
Really? I can't make money off the fact that, long term, the S&P 500 or the Dow tend to trend upward? Surely I'm not the only one who knows this.
So, Black Monday?
Maybe you should take it up with the person who hijacked the thread, which wasn't me.
Ha! I'm pretty risk averse. It's just the tease of the "what if"?
I get it . . . we're just talking about REALLY BIG NUMBERS when compared to my account. Like, almost equal. The doomsday scenarios start to spin...
It would be a lot better for everyone involved if OTM-Options would stop bashing every other trading technique known to man. There is room for all.
I get very nervous trading large notional positions in my own account. Last week I put on a DITM bull call spread in PCLN, with what I perceived...
There are any number of ways to construct a position which profits when volatility drops. Consider calls and puts: their value rises in a...
Just habit. Long Jul 14 calls.
Not exactly. I am attempting to bound the future price of the underlying as +/- X StDev. StDev is a function of volatility, so therein lies the...
Got a recent number on ^VIX? I'm long July $14 calls. Need some good news. ;)
That is a really nice summary.
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