Recent content by farcis

thats exactly right. And I noticed today that most of the high iv trades I was looking at are near earnings, which is quite scary if you ask me.

I understand. Its why im not just wanting to get more insite on short ics but long as well.

Thanks for the link! Ill check out the post.

Thanks for all of that! This kind of trade idea works well with a short term trader like me :) would the same idea apply to long condors? Buying an expiration 2-3 weeks out then taking profit? Thanks for this! this idea of selling ics 3-4 weeks off and taking profit after a week sounds like...

I don't get what you mean in the second part. I do agree though that high iv gets you better prices for ranges and risk/reward. Thanks though!

So I’ve been wanting to do an iron condor sell for a while now but I have a few questions that i can’t find answers to online 1. I know your supposed to sell iron condors when implied volatility is high, but if I’m selling IC based on the assumption that prices will not move then is it ok to...

I have been looking into and reading about implied volatility and the Greeks so I do understand that they influence options premiums quite abit. Problem is that robinhood has dashed out the Greeks and implied volatility so they don’t show those so I’m kind of left in the dark about that.

I payed 172 total with both contracts and my TA is bill Williams alligator and awesome oscillator together with linear regression forecast. What I was wondering was if the price moved more in the favor of the trade would it be enough to raise the premiums higher and would it also effect the bid...

So I goofed. Today I bought 2 BX 34.5 calls that expire this week. Everything was fine until the last few market minutes where the premium completely dipped. On robinhood the implied volatility and Greeks are completely dashed while the bid and ask are very wide which I’m sure is what caused...