Recent content by jmichaelp

A few years ago, for about one year, I was able to successfully trade deep ITM covered calls for the dividend. However, options started being exercised after regular trading hours so my stock was traded away the night prior to being eligible for the dividend. This, like most strategies...

Well, I don't want to give away too much of what I'm doing - on one hand it doesn't really matter, but on the other I've had a life's worth of experiences of having employers & others take credit for my work... Basically it's pretty comprehensive employing brute-force, an expert system...

Only made $2,200 last month & probably only going to make about $4k this month. Been spending too much time on my option program to make money trading options :) However, the programming I've done will give me better information & should help me in November and beyond.

1) Exclusively equity options, but I've seen some of the trades I've structured described in articles about trading in other equity markets. 2) I make all of those trades and more including arbitrage and synthetic trades, & can't say that I favor one over the other. 3) On a net basis I guess...

I guess I'm fairly new to options trading, having been at it for 2.5 years or so. First half year, just messing around so that I could learn - probably made $5k. Second (first full) year - probably made $12k This year - messed around with a strategy that didn't work in the first quarter...