Road kill? Ok fair enough. I'm sure I will find an edge though. Somehow. I know enough to stay away from schemes. I'm not sure exactly what makes...
wha??
Both replies make a lot of sense. What you're saying is to have an edge like the house does is in a casino. Sure the casino loses sometimes, but...
I see. What's your edge? haha I bet you wont tell me. Can you give me an example of what someones edge might be like? Or is that too broad of a...
I see what you mean, but if thats true then it would be impossible to make somewhat consistent profit doing...well just about anything. You cant...
I understand what you're saying, but if you hedge yourself so you dont necessarily make as much on the 90% that expire worthless, but you dont...
Do any of you guys trade options exclusively or almost exclusively for the brunt of your income? If you do what general strategies do you use most...
Im a noob., but im VERY interested in writing out of the money options because dont the VAST majority of options expire worthless? Something like...
I see. So its safe to assume if an option is in the money, it will be exercised. I got it.
When you sell an option who or what determines if/when that options gets exercised? I know of course you have to add the price paid for the...
got it.
Why do some stocks have 2 option symbols at the same strike, ie QQQQ. Is this bc of sheer volume?
I wish I could go back and see what the bid was! I really wish I could get some of this terminology down. I've been doing this with paper...
Could be for sure. Like I said, I didnt try to buy them so I cant say.
geeze...the other day....a few weeks ago, same difference. All I know is that the call expiring last month and the call expiring in Jan 09, we're...
ha. I found one the other day. I thought i was missing something so I called optionsxpress and the the lady was like uhhhhh that looks pretty...
oh and what would this strategy be called?
Ok I just wanted to make sure that the main problem with the scenario is the misprice. I will tell you that they are out there. I've never found...
Be careful bro. I'm 20 and recently had the same type of setup. Only I made the money in real estate. If you havent already, hedge yourself in...
ha! ok ok i HAVE found one, but im not quite that naive.
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