How many people going to those clinics are illegal immigrants? Not all of them are, of course, but I'll bet a lot of them are.
Even if you're just a directional trader you need to keep volatility (and thus vega) in mind. Suppose an equity has just got whacked down hard on...
Now I don't fell quite so stupid when I lose a few hundred dollars on a bad option play.
Agreed.
It sounds like you are assuming the back tester will be stupid enough to use the same time periods for the learning phase that he uses for the...
Wow indeed. From that document: "While the rules of the Snider Method prohibit selling stocks at a loss, this does not limit or prevent the...
The price and yield are directly connected. How much price appreciation can you really expect on a 1% bond? If its a 5 year bond at 1% and then...
It's easy to find, after the fact, short duration options that have doubled, tripled, quadrupled, quintupled, or sextupled in value in a day or...
If you bought the stock and sold the ITM covered call then of course your stock will be called away and you won't be short any stock. But your...
What do you mean by "use options as a stop loss"?
One of those houses is across the street from me. It was foreclosed two years ago and has been empty ever since. Naturally that's doing wonders...
So you're saying that at expiration the call is 2.50 in the money. Just before expiration you could buy back the call for a bit over 2.50, making...
Any time I can get 26% in a day I'm happy to take the profits and run. Of course I can't trade at anywhere near the size of the trades that get...
Thanks for clearing that up.
It's really hard to accept trading advice from a guy whose screen name is deadbroke.
I'm confused. If you're only buying calls and not hedging with stock how can you be delta neutral?
Actually, if you want people to ride bikes you should have paved roads. Gravel is an excellent way of making bikes lose traction and fall over.
What does this have to do with options?
Sharron Angle isn't my ideal candidate but I'll take her over Harry Reid any day of the week. In politics the choices aren't between good and...
You have discovered that markets are efficient. If any publicized indicator or chart pattern worked consistently everybody would be using it and...
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