No adjustments needed. Just determine the maximum dollar loss and buy both calls and puts. Then close the position at a loss or profit....
falconview ...... use Yahoo Finance and setup a portfolio for paper trades and stocks to watch, the Bid/Ask quotes are right on. The live QQQ...
UPDATE: OK ..... I just entered a live QQQ 55C/54P straddle trade, this is not a paper trade. QQQ @ $54.36. Buy 1 contract QQQ Jun 2011...
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UPDATE: I recommend a GOOG straddle for Thursday, maybe 510 call and 500 put depending on what GOOG is trading at. It's selling for $4.05,...
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Take a look at GLD: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GLD Weekly options offered. Consider entering 1 day before expiry, buy Thursday sell Friday....
Keep in mind that my posts questioning your graph got a much clearer solution than before I posted. MTE's solution - with screen shot - is very...
Ok thanks. But it still doesn't match the original graph. Yours starts off as a credit with a much better risk/reward ratio. While the original...
I don't use option analysis software, if you could post a screen shot of your results that would be great. Does the software output a P/L graph?...
Shaq appears to be a very approachable guy, especially if the place was empty. Dennis Rodman on the other hand doesn't seem to be very...
I don't think so. Ebay is still the best way for buyers and sellers to exchange items that can be shipped. Auction format is great for hard to...
[img] The P/L graph posted cannot exist. You have a call and put debt spread with a risk/reward ratio of about 1/1.5 The shaded out orange...
UPDATE: Closed at $0.12: P/L: -$48.86 / -82% [img] GLD - 5 day chart to June 10, 2011 11:22am EST. Green dot position opened. Red dot...
All those threads contained regular updates as the trades progressed from open to close.
m22au: 0.61 posts per day. Joe: 0.64 posts per day. ForexForex: 0.66 posts per day, most are replies to other threads. mikeenday: 0.95 posts...
UPDATE: Position still open - If GLD drops 1 1/2% on Friday then I will make a small profit.
Risking $60.00 is no big deal. Nothing wrong with entering a trade with a maximum loss of $60.00. It's not blind luck. Today was the first...
I would go with Yahoo Finance for option quotes, Google Finance is useless when compared to Yahoo Finance.
UPDATE: Position still open - 3 days to expiration.
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