Depends on how you see it. For example, if you want to play for a sharp, imminent drop, you can buy puts. To determine which puts you want to...
What I would like is software that does NOT automatically label waves but, rather, lets you do it on the screen manually, so you can play around...
Maybe it's reasonable for the government to protect the poor and uneducated against their own poor borrowing decisions. Hopefully we're a little...
Note too that if you go to www.interactivebrokers.com Individuals > Trading > Shortable stocks > Country, then look up the stock, you will get...
From its inception in 1990 the VIX never got above 50 until late last year. So actually, no one has much historical information on such spikes.
You're right. That's basically why we got taken - nobody could imagine that IB would charge that kind of interest without notification of any...
I'm not saying this is their general everyday policy with all stocks. But if a stock becomes hard to borrow, they'll charge what the market will...
Okay thanks. Yeah, I don't know what's holding the vix up here. Habit I guess. After being in a range this long I'm surprised it's not a lot lower.
Rallymode, you seem to be saying that based on the current term structure, if you're bullish on the S&P, shorting the vix is a good bet, but if...
Right. To add a little detail: vix options are European-style, exercisable only at expiration. Between now and then, the only underlying...
Just please understand what you are buying. For all practical purposes a vix call is a call on that month's futures contract, NOT on the cash...
Ah yes, Sears. Before you jump in, let me tell you about my Sears "free money" misadventure, which was most instructional. A few months ago I...
Martin above is correct, the approach suggested makes no sense. If you have a set of Excel option add-in functions such as Hoadley, this is...
You're talking about the December 2017 options? According to the link you posted there is zero open interest in those options. Since they...
I completely agree.
It doesn't work that way. Here's what happens. Imagine it's Friday morning before a long weekend. Let's say xyz 90 calls have 30 days...
The near term, yes. But yesterday for example the April, May, June, July, August and September futures all closed at a premium to cash. During...
To clarify: I meant to say that I can't recall a time when the vix was trading above 40% AND, at the same time, the next few months' futures...
Hi Newguy: I'm attaching a 1-minute chart of the SPX vs the VIX showing that even yesterday the negative correlation held quite closely....
For me the most important part of the Hoadley tools is simply the Excel option functions, which allow me to set up a spreadsheet to look at things...
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