Recent content by ds2

yeah, im new to the greeks and IV, so this is all pretty fascinating to me. Could you give a quick, general idea of how IV effects the option?

Why is theta so low on the 30 Feb Calls of MXIM? Is there a scan you can do to find such high delta/theta ratios?

i picked up some feb 90 calls midday friday mainly because of the extreme oversold condition

that optionshouse sounds like a dream come true, im going to look into it. THANKS! lottery ticket player, huh? I like that, you can call me what you want, but im finding its the only way to live, ive found the conduit to financial independence for me.

Im looking for the cheapest price per options contract brokerage. i trade closer to expiration and dont buy contracts over .30. therefore my commissions are enormous! im using itrade.com right now, and am paying 5 plus .75 a contract and usually trade 50-150 contracts. whats your favs?

i noticed at the start of the week, bringing up the option chain on ameritrade that they had weeklys for the major index ETF for dec29 expiration but they seemed to have dissapeared?

tks for the info, im just into buying cheap contracts and continue to repeat to myself my affirmations that im a master trader.. :)

well its looks like the contracts trade high, which im confused by. i run the theorical data and look at it on ameritrade, and it seems the contracts are 3-4X! they do expire worthless if under the strike, why would they trade so high?? on the SPX , the 1410 puts opened trading around .50 a...

do any of you option traders, follow/trade the weeklys? volume seems pretty low. $spx.x is symbol on ameritrade

ive recently started following the weeklys on the spx and oex. do they always trade way above their theoretical value? thx