To Don and diaooptions Your comments are well taken. I dont find the straddle a bad performer at all. It is rather slow and doesn´t earn...
STRADDLE TRADING REVIEW after two years. I still like STRADDLES. You can get two trades a month out of STRADDLES earning a net profit of 3%...
Fortunately I don´t get the humor. I´m just the way I am. I think in a certain way. I sort of like to analyze things to death. Comes of...
Thankyou for the nice comments friend Don Bright In a rather subjective review over two years. The straight option buyers did better than...
Ha! Ha! guys. Guess that didn´t come out the right way? :) Actually I was summing up my two year foray and trying to isolate the ideas and...
Well I´m mulling over my choices. First off, I´m cleaning this beach apartment, doing some carpentry repairs and getting ready to leave after 4...
The only person I know consistantly increasing his equity balance on these forums seems to be Ryan Patrick. Unfortunately I don´t have the...
Thanks for the inpùt Don. :D In another week I will be approaching my two years of trading options. One year was paper trading, the...
AAA in the beltway. Thanks for the correction. Making me think indeed. I have lost tremendous in Black Swan credit spreads. I´m not sure...
Piker for life Thankyou for that hint on OTM Verticals. For lower spreads. Worth it´s weight in gold that information. Will check it out...
Ooh! Before I sign off. One last question for WhistlingLeaf. I don´t want to intrude, or be nosy about your private business, but it would...
Out of curiousity this Sunday morning. I calculated the QQQ has dropped -11% from the high. Trying to figure what it will do for next week.
Well I do appreciate the educational stuff from Whistling Leaf and the more expert stuff from Atticus and some others. I´m getting educated, it...
Man this is great. I´m reading through this thread, and I actually understood a good portion of what was being said. Progress is being made in...
Since Atticus says it makes no difference if you are OTM, or itm OR atm. I was just wondering. I did do some OTM trades a week ago ( and...
Whistling leaf I found that interesting about 50 + more long term positions in Vertical spreads. Care to be a bit more specific on the...
A technical question. If are trading weeklies and trying to project where your trading vehicle will be in one week. I have had no problem while...
With all the recent hurrah on here with clashing egos. I might as well as chime in and praise Don Bright for helping me understand Delta Neutral...
Lets talk TECHNICAL skills for novices like me. If the pro´s would chime in? Reading about butterflies. The interesting thing is they...
I was all set to trade a HORIZONTAL CALENDAR and a CONDOR tomorrow. Got myself all psyched up about it, and wondering if I would get the order...
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