Recent content by ludmil

i think i had your opinion on another threat-(and that of riskarb and other experienced traders too)-that's i want to discuss it more in debth.statistics is an interesting science!in average every american eats meat with pasta-but some have a lot of meat,other only pasta:)) if all the...

how many years of experience do you have? and what's between earnings?

no opinions on volatility?i expected a long and hot threat:)

does anybody have data/experience/opinion how acurate is IV?is the market often right predicting the following moves of stocks?is predicting vol.(reversing to the mean)easier than predicting stock direction as often stated?

thank you riskarb!it seems you understood my question and gave me an exelent theoretical answer! with strangle vs. straddle comissions(i mean combined-comissions + spread) i mean that in the case of strangle often you don't have to buy back the one leg to close.

it seems many don't understand that i'm not looking for a winning strategy.i'm was working good with market and stock predictions for over 8 years.i look to leverage a little my trading-thats why i try to learn the option strategies! so -i rewrite my 1 question again: assumung i think the...

if the dispersion looks like a camelback the premium is unwarented only regarding indexes

what's your point?earnings release is not important?

it's simple-my time is not infinite-thats why i want to concentrate on knowing well strategies that work often.a handfull of stocks and handfull of srtategies is better than miriads of choises you don't understand well! reading mcmillan i had the impression that selling premium is not a good...

thank's for the extensive answer!i agree with you on many things-but not all:) first i need to clarify my pozition,because it seems most here don't understand my intention. i'm relative new to options,but not to investing and how markets work.i'm not looking for a winning strategy(i agree...

what's your opinion-is an iron condor better than a butterfly?it seems that the condors are preffered on this board

is it a good idea to make the iron condors diagonal(buy the hedge long term) if you intend to trade this underlying for longer time?this should increase the profitability!

that's my intention too-small profits often.but everything lower than 20-25% per year is not enough-i made 15% only with stocks the last 5 years! by how much have you beaten the market these 3 years?

hi was reffering to his previous post-see p.2