Recent content by DudeExMachina

I think you're closer to my point on this one, wartrace. But the real thing I'm playing with here is that I have absolutely no intention of holding the long put and I want to get assigned immediately. In this hypothetical strategy, I don't care about the market over time - I just want to make...

This is more a "thought experiment" than anything else, but I'm wondering if the odds of assignment can get close to 100% if you sell a put option above the current market price? (very new to options trading here... so apologies if my use of the lingo is atrocious) Seems crazy, I know, but I'm...