If your broker doesn't let you sell naked calls in a non-IRA account get another broker. Selling naked calls is just as legitimate as selling...
Yup, the government pensions are killing us tax payers.
Consider putting some of the money into a carefully chosen business development company (BDC). They are required to pay out most of their income...
Let's try an experiment. Cut all government salaries by 30%. Cut benefits tied to salaries, such as pensions, by the same amount. See how many...
To the degree that the market prices in future expectations on a stock that stock shouldn't trend. Yes, I know that stocks often do trend. But...
The problem is not that houses are too cheap now. The problem is that houses were too expensive 3 or 4 years ago and fools bought them anyway.
I could be wrong but my impression is that whatever noise HFT adds to stock prices is on the order of pennies or fractions of pennies. So it...
Well, I thought that advice was worth about what I paid for it.
I didn't claim that sellindexvol66 is using lots of leverage, that was sonoma's suggestion. For sellindexvol66 to have the long term success...
The video is certainly soporific, but it's actual content is sensible. If you're making a directional option trade that has to play out over a...
Anyone who want's more margin on short option trades than his broker will give him is begging to get blown up. Be prepared to have to sell your...
The expected value, not the probability, is what matters. Sure you can find far OTM options you can sell that will expire worthless 99% of the...
I'm confused. You were initially short a 650/660 bear call spread (short the 650 call, long the 660 call). To convert that to a butterfly you...
If options are priced efficiently (and I believe that they usually are) there is no particular advantage to buying or selling them. Sellers have...
The financial industry will move offshore. Manhattan will be a dead zone.
You seem to forget that those who are at their margin limit are already using all the leverage their broker will allow.
Put butterflies and call butterflies at the same strike prices are synthetically equivalent. But as you have seen when you look at the actual...
Is it possible to have a thread in ET without the Jew baiting?
I don't expect you to give away your edge. And is obvious that succeeding in option trading requires hard work. For that matter, it is also very...
I had responded: "I would like to point out that almost all of the "premium" you're selling in this example is intrinsic value, which you capture...
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